Course Description
Professional standards, principles, and procedures that support all clinical practice in SLP. Addresses workforce requirements, including licensure/credentialing, ethics, privacy law, healthcare finance, and interpersonal and multicultural variables. Basic clinical skills necessary to design goal- oriented assessment and treatment plans are introduced.
Athena Title
Professional SLP
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in CMSD 5000
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Prerequisite
Permission of major
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
After this course, students will be able to: 1. describe the historical background that led to the need for, and describe the current standards for, credentialing, licensure, ethical conduct, and other professional requirements in speech-language pathology (ASHA Standard III-E, III-G, III-H) 2. generate basic client-centered assessment and treatment protocols that take into account at an introductory level a range of scientific, professional, educational, interpersonal, cultural, and other relevant variables 3. write behavioral objectives, collect data in guided observations and other simulations, and make decisions based on those data, for recordings or other simulations that represent persons across the lifespan and with varied social, linguistic, cultural, and economic backgrounds (ASHA Standard III-D, IV-B, IV-C, IV-E)
Topical Outline
1. Discipline and Professions: Scope of Practice History of SLP and Audiology National and State Associations 2. Professional Competency: Education Licensure Certification/Board Certification 3. Ethics: ASHA Code of Ethics PSC Code of Educator Ethics 4. Healthcare and Health Finance Law: Medicare/Social Security Healthcare Insurance Privacy and Portability Act/Hi-Tech Billing, Coding, and Reimbursement 5. Personal, Interpersonal, and Multicultural Competence and Proficiency 6. Principles of Assessment Working with families Goals of assessment 7. Principles of Treatment Programs Writing and sequencing longterm goals and shortterm objectives Applying principles of teaching and learning to SLP Data-based revision of treatment plans Designing the end of treatment, generalization, and maintenance
Syllabus
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