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)

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