Financial Disclosure: Ellen Kester, Ph.D., CCC-SLP. Dr. Ellen Kester is the owner of Bilinguistics and receives a salary. Bilinguistics receives royalty payments for online courses.

Non-Financial Disclosure: Ellen Kester does not have any non-financial relationships to disclose.

In this presentation we evaluate general ethical concerns and situations across several professions and then hone in on situations we encounter in the field of speech-language pathology in our work serving students from diverse backgrounds. We explore HOW and WHY we encounter ethical situations and WHAT we can do to eliminate such situations in the future.

Participants will:

• Describe ways to address ethical dilemmas in the workplace
• List the limitations of testing tools with multicultural populations
• Describe the appropriate use of test norms
• Describe how differences in sounds across languages affects development in bilingual children.
• Identify how to tell if an error is due to influence from another language or not
• Describe how dynamic assessment is used to reduce errors in diagnosing speech and language impairments.

Time-Ordered Agenda:
05 minutes   Introduction 
07 minutes   The Revised ASHA Code of Ethics 
08 minutes  Human Tendencies and Changing Behavior 
07 minutes   Cultural and Linguistic Diversity 
08 minutes  Testing Considerations with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students 
05 minutes   Speech Differences 
05 minutes   Language Differences 
10 minutes   Dynamic Assessment 
05 minutes   Responding to Questions and Closing 

This is a free course for speech-language pathologists