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CE Speech Language Pathology

An evidence‑based continuing‑education program covering ASHA Ethics, scope of practice, dysphagia assessment, AAC, and pediatric speech disorders, equipping SLPs with current standards for ethical, effective care.

Who Should Take This

Licensed speech‑language pathologists with at least two years of clinical experience who need to stay compliant with ASHA guidelines and expand their therapeutic repertoire. They seek practical, evidence‑based strategies for dysphagia management, augmentative communication, and pediatric disorders to enhance patient outcomes and meet continuing‑education requirements.

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63 learning goals

1 ASHA Code of Ethics

2 topics

Ethical principles

Identify the four principles of the ASHA Code of Ethics: responsibility to persons served, professional competence, responsibility to the public, and professional relationships.
Explain the ethical obligation to provide services only within the SLP's scope of competence and the responsibility to seek additional training or refer when clinical needs exceed current expertise.
Describe the ethical requirements for informed consent in SLP services including disclosure of treatment options, risks and benefits, alternative approaches, and the right to refuse treatment.
Explain the ethical obligations regarding conflicts of interest including product endorsement, manufacturer relationships, equipment sales, and referral arrangements in SLP practice.

Ethical reasoning and enforcement

Analyze ethical dilemmas in SLP practice including pressure to provide unnecessary services, cultural conflicts in treatment goals, and dual relationships in school or rural settings.
Evaluate the ethical responsibilities of SLPs in reporting child abuse, elder abuse, and patient safety concerns when professional obligations conflict with client confidentiality.
Identify the ASHA Board of Ethics complaint process including grounds for complaints, investigation procedures, potential sanctions, and the appeals process.
Design an ethics training program for an SLP department that addresses common practice dilemmas, documentation integrity, boundary management, and ASHA Code of Ethics application.

2 SLP Scope of Practice

2 topics

Core practice areas

Identify the nine clinical areas within the SLP scope of practice: speech sound production, fluency, voice, resonance, language, cognition, social communication, feeding and swallowing, and hearing.
Explain the SLP's role in cognitive-communication disorders including assessment and treatment of attention, memory, executive function, and problem-solving deficits resulting from brain injury or neurological disease.
Describe the SLP's role in literacy including phonological awareness, reading comprehension, written language intervention, and the connection between spoken and written language development.
Analyze the boundaries between SLP scope of practice and related disciplines including psychology, special education, and occupational therapy in overlapping areas like social skills and executive function.

Practice settings and populations

Identify the range of SLP practice settings including schools, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, private practice, early intervention, and home health and the unique considerations of each.
Explain the role of SLPs across the lifespan from neonatal feeding intervention through geriatric cognitive-communication and dysphagia management in aging populations.
Evaluate the SLP's scope in emerging practice areas including gender-affirming voice training, transgender voice and communication, and the competency requirements for these specialized services.
Design a scope of practice self-assessment tool for SLPs that helps practitioners evaluate their competency across clinical areas and identify professional development priorities.

3 Dysphagia Assessment and Management

2 topics

Assessment methods

Identify the components of a clinical swallowing evaluation including oral mechanism examination, trial swallows, signs of aspiration, and criteria for instrumental assessment referral.
Explain the videofluoroscopic swallowing study procedure including patient positioning, barium consistencies, swallow physiology assessment, and penetration-aspiration scale interpretation.
Describe the fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing including indications, procedure steps, secretion management assessment, and advantages compared to VFSS for specific patient populations.
Analyze clinical and instrumental assessment findings to determine the nature and severity of dysphagia including oral phase dysfunction, pharyngeal delay, laryngeal penetration, and aspiration.

IDDSI and treatment

Identify the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative framework including the eight levels of food texture and drink thickness and their standardized testing methods.
Explain the evidence-based swallowing therapy techniques including effortful swallow, Mendelsohn maneuver, supraglottic swallow, Shaker exercise, and tongue strengthening exercises.
Analyze the ethical considerations of dysphagia management including risk feeding decisions, quality of life versus aspiration risk, patient autonomy in declining diet modifications, and comfort feeding.
Evaluate the evidence for neuromuscular electrical stimulation in dysphagia treatment including published efficacy data, appropriate patient selection, and its role within a comprehensive treatment plan.
Design a dysphagia management protocol for a healthcare facility including screening, referral pathways, assessment procedures, diet modification standards, treatment planning, and outcome measurement.

4 Augmentative and Alternative Communication

2 topics

AAC systems and assessment

Identify the types of AAC systems including unaided (gestures, sign language), low-tech aided (communication boards, PECS), and high-tech aided (speech-generating devices, tablet-based apps).
Explain the AAC assessment process including communication needs analysis, feature matching, trial periods, vocabulary selection strategies, and the participation model for AAC decision-making.
Describe the principles of aided language stimulation and modeling as strategies for teaching AAC system use and promoting multimodal communication development.
Analyze AAC access methods including direct selection, scanning, eye gaze tracking, and switch access to determine the most appropriate input method for individual client motor abilities.

AAC implementation

Evaluate the AAC funding and procurement process including Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance coverage criteria, documentation requirements, and appeal strategies for denied claims.
Identify the essential components of communication partner training for AAC users including expectant waiting, modeling, prompting strategies, and response interpretation.
Analyze the barriers to successful AAC implementation including device abandonment factors, communication partner resistance, environmental barriers, and cultural considerations in symbol selection.
Design a comprehensive AAC intervention plan for a nonverbal client including assessment, device selection, vocabulary programming, partner training, integration across communication environments, and outcome tracking.

5 Pediatric Speech and Language Disorders

2 topics

Disorder types and assessment

Identify the major categories of pediatric communication disorders including articulation disorders, phonological disorders, developmental language disorder, childhood apraxia of speech, and fluency disorders.
Explain the differential diagnosis between articulation disorders, phonological disorders, and childhood apraxia of speech including distinguishing features, assessment approaches, and treatment implications.
Describe developmental language disorder including diagnostic criteria, language comprehension and production profiles, comorbidity with literacy difficulties, and long-term outcomes.
Analyze the considerations for differentiating language disorder from language difference in bilingual and multilingual children including assessment bias, normative data limitations, and dynamic assessment approaches.

Intervention approaches

Evaluate the evidence for intervention approaches in childhood apraxia of speech including DTTC, ReST, and integral stimulation and the ASHA position statement on CAS treatment.
Explain early intervention principles for speech and language development including family-centered practice, natural environment service delivery, and coaching caregivers as communication facilitators.
Identify the SLP's role in school-based services including eligibility determination, IEP goal writing, collaboration with teachers, and the distinction between educationally relevant and medically necessary services.
Design an evidence-based intervention program for a pediatric speech sound disorder caseload that addresses assessment protocols, treatment selection by disorder type, progress monitoring, and family engagement.

6 Telepractice in Speech-Language Pathology

2 topics

Telepractice framework

Identify ASHA's position on telepractice including approved service delivery models, interstate licensure considerations, and the position that telepractice is an appropriate service delivery model when clinically appropriate.
Explain the patient selection criteria for SLP telepractice including communication disorder types amenable to virtual service, technology requirements, candidacy screening, and the role of a telepractice facilitator.
Describe the adaptations needed for SLP assessment via telepractice including standardized test administration considerations, informal assessment techniques, and the validity of remote evaluation.

Telepractice implementation

Analyze the evidence for SLP telepractice effectiveness across practice areas including articulation therapy, language intervention, fluency treatment, voice therapy, and dysphagia management.
Evaluate the ethical considerations of telepractice including informed consent, privacy and confidentiality in the home environment, recording policies, and equitable access across socioeconomic groups.
Identify the reimbursement policies for SLP telepractice including Medicare, Medicaid, and private payer coverage, place of service codes, and documentation requirements specific to telehealth encounters.
Design a telepractice service delivery program for an SLP practice including platform selection, patient screening, session protocols, material adaptation, caregiver involvement plans, and outcome measurement.

7 Voice and Fluency Disorders

2 topics

Voice disorders

Identify the types of voice disorders including functional voice disorders, structural lesions, neurogenic voice disorders, and psychogenic voice disorders and their typical presentations.
Explain the voice evaluation process including perceptual assessment, acoustic analysis, aerodynamic measures, and the importance of laryngoscopic examination referral for persistent voice changes.
Describe evidence-based voice therapy approaches including vocal function exercises, resonant voice therapy, Lee Silverman Voice Treatment for Parkinson's disease, and vocal hygiene education.

Fluency disorders

Identify the features of developmental stuttering including core behaviors (repetitions, prolongations, blocks), secondary behaviors, and the variability of fluency across communication situations.
Evaluate evidence-based stuttering interventions across age groups including the Lidcombe Program for preschoolers, fluency shaping, stuttering modification, and acceptance-based approaches for adults.
Analyze the impact of stuttering on quality of life including social avoidance, workplace discrimination, self-concept, and the SLP's role in advocating for stuttering acceptance alongside treatment.
Design a comprehensive fluency intervention program that addresses both the observable speech features and the cognitive-affective components of stuttering across the lifespan.

8 SLP Documentation and Professional Development

2 topics

Documentation standards

Identify SLP documentation requirements across practice settings including medical documentation for hospital and skilled nursing facility settings and educational documentation for school-based services.
Explain the documentation requirements for SLP services under Medicare including functional limitation reporting, plan of care elements, progress note content, and medical necessity justification.
Describe goal writing standards for SLP including measurable objectives, functional relevance, client-centered language, and the connection between treatment goals and discharge criteria.

Professional development and certification

Analyze SLP documentation for compliance with payer requirements and clinical standards to identify deficiencies in goal measurability, progress reporting, and skilled service demonstration.
Identify the ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence maintenance requirements including continuing education contact hours, professional development plans, and certification renewal timelines.
Evaluate the role of specialty certification and recognition programs including ASHA specialty certifications, board-recognized specialties, and their impact on clinical practice scope and reimbursement.
Identify the supervision requirements for SLP clinical fellows including the CF experience framework, mentor qualifications, assessment procedures, and the pathway from CF to CCC-SLP.
Design a professional development plan for an SLP that integrates ASHA CE requirements, specialty certification goals, evidence-based practice competencies, and emerging practice area exploration.

Scope

Included Topics

ASHA Code of Ethics including the four principles (responsibility to persons served, professional competence, responsibility to the public, professional and interprofessional relationships) and enforcement mechanisms.
SLP scope of practice encompassing speech sound disorders, language disorders, fluency, voice, resonance, swallowing, cognitive-communication, and social communication across the lifespan.
Dysphagia management including instrumental assessment (VFSS, FEES), IDDSI framework for diet texture modification, swallowing therapy techniques, and management of aspiration risk.
Augmentative and alternative communication including AAC system types (unaided, aided, low-tech, high-tech), assessment for AAC, device selection, training communication partners, and funding advocacy.
Pediatric speech and language disorders including articulation and phonological disorders, developmental language disorder, childhood apraxia of speech, and early intervention approaches.
Telepractice in speech-language pathology including ASHA guidelines, appropriate service delivery populations, technology considerations, and evidence for telepractice effectiveness.

Not Covered

Detailed anatomy and physiology of the speech and hearing mechanism beyond the clinical knowledge needed for ethical practice and scope discussion.
Audiology practice, hearing aid fitting, or cochlear implant programming beyond the SLP's collaborative role with audiologists.
Detailed psycholinguistic or neurolinguistic research methodology beyond the practitioner-level understanding needed for evidence-based practice.
SLP program administration, caseload management, or billing operations beyond practice ethics and documentation context.

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