This course will review the incidence of children with feeding and swallowing in schools, the relationship to special education requirements, and common challenges that school-based SLPs face in addressing the needs of these children. It will discuss how to apply an ethical decision-making approach to these challenges, and provide specific ideas for resources to use in approaching the dilemma.

As healthcare and reimbursement are changing, therapists often find themselves facing questions of ethics when working with clients who are aging. This course will review the principles of bioethics and how they apply to SLPs working with aging adults. Decision-making scenarios will be presented and discussed for application of knowledge.

This course provides information regarding the responsibility of supervisors to ensure that their supervisees do not engage in unethical behavior. It also provides information on what supervisors should do when they discover that their supervisees have violated standards of ethics.

In this course, principles of ethics and the ASHA Code of Ethics will be examined. Ethical decision making will be applied to hypothetical case studies that reflect ethical dilemmas in practice settings.

This is Part 4 of a four-part series. Ethical decision-making, specifically with the aging population, is a hot topic in Speech-Language Pathology. This course will review principles of bioethics and how they apply to SLP practice. Case studies will be utilized to provide additional opportunities for analysis. (Part 1: Course 7965, Part 2: Course 7975, Part 3: Course 7991)

This course will educate speech-language pathologists (including supervisors, graduate students, and Clinical Fellows) about the revised 2016 ASHA Code of Ethics. Participants will be provided with general terminology to help guide them in understanding the accepted standards of the profession.

This is Part 5 of a week-long series, An Update on Dysphagia Assessment and Treatment: How to Do It and Why. Many patients with dysphagia have complex medical, social and emotional issues which require not only an advanced level of clinical skill and expertise, but also an advanced level of ethical reasoning skills. In this course the core principles of bioethics will be reviewed and strategies for integrating ethical reasoning into clinical practice will be discussed. This course is open captioned. ((Part 1: Course 7678, Part 3: Course 7680, Part 4: Course 7681)