Course Type: Video - 2 hours
ASHA Subject Code: Ethics and Ethical Decision Making – 7070
Successfully navigate contentious situations when confronted with an ethical dilemma. Learn about the origin of ethics, how professions address ethical issues, and dissect intriguing case studies supplied by speech pathologists.
Have you ever had an ethical question or dilemma arise? Do you work with clients who speak a language other than English and have concerns about how ethical the services are that they receive? In this presentation we consider the ASHA Code of Ethics, its relation to multicultural populations, and numerous case studies of SLPs in the field.
Level, Authors, and Disclosures
Financial Disclosure: Ellen Kester, Ph.D., CCC-SLP 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.
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This course considered ethics from historical and modern perspectives: from Socrates to Serena Williams to Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) in a variety of settings. Professional competence when working with a culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) population was discussed as well as issues of supervision, assessment, billing and evidence-based practice.
Participants will:
- List laws and codes of ethics pertaining to speech language pathologists
- Describe legal issues that relate to serving a bilingual population
- Discuss ethical issues related to working with culturally and linguistically diverse populations through the use of case studies
- Identify sections of the Codes of Ethics that assist in decision-making for case studies
Time-ordered agenda:
05 minutes: Introduction to the topic
10 minutes Evidence-Based Approaches in Multilingual Evaluations
10 minutes: Strength-Based vs Deficit-Based Language
10 minutes: Ethical Issues that Arise in Evaluations of Multilingual Learners
10 minutes: Review of the ASHA Code of Ethics
15 minutes: Case Studies of Ethical Questions
15 minutes: Effective Assessment Approaches with Multilingual Children
10 minutes: Collecting Effective information from Families who Speak Other Languages
10 minutes: Understanding Similarities and Differences across languages
05 minutes: Working with Interpreters
10 minutes: Using Dynamic Assessment to Reduce Bias in the Assessment Process
10 minutes: Summary and Wrap-Up
Participants will leave with a practical system they can implement immediately, along with renewed confidence in using language sampling as a central component of ethical, effective, and culturally responsive assessment.
Practitioners attending live events will be asked to answer questions at the end of the course about what they learned and how they will use the information they learned in practice. Once the questions (below) are completed, participants will receive their certificate.
One practical takeaway I plan to apply from this session is __________.
Overall, how familiar were you with today’s topic before attending this webinar?
After attending, how confident are you in applying at least one concept from this webinar?
Rate your overall satisfaction with this webinar.
One practical takeaway I will apply from this session is __________.
Practitioners attending recorded sessions demonstrate learning and attendance by passing a quiz with a score of 80% or greater. The quiz addresses questions from material presented throughout the course. Practitioners can retake the quiz if they do not initially obtain a score of at least 80%. For events including case studies, participants download, read, and utilize materials in order to participate.
