Clinical Exam 1 Flashcards
What is ASHA’s vision?
Making effective communication, a human right, accessible and achievable for all.
What does ASHA stand for?
the american speech and hearing association
ASHA policies
Political advocacy
Networking
Continuing education
Multicultural initiatives
Research
Technical assistance
Referral service
Employment service
What is AAA?
American Academy of Audiology
What is AAA’s purpose?
The active membership of more than 12,000 is dedicated to providing quality hearing care services through professional development, education, research, and increased public awareness of hearing and balance disorders fostering excellence in professional practice, and advocating for members and those they serve.
What does Ethics mean?
The moral and/or civil codes of conduct for a particular person, situation, community, religious group, organization or society.
How are personal ethics formed?
Through upbringing, acculturation, life
experiences, personal choices, and education.
What does professional ethics establish?
The right and wrong actions in serving clients in the workplace.
What is ASHA’s code of ethics?
Each organization above has its own code of ethics that
includes tangible expectations that define acceptable
conduct and conscientious judgment in the practice of
speech-language pathology and audiology.
What does a professional code of ethics provide?
a common set of core values when confronted with ethical dilemmas in the workplace.
For ASHA and AAA, who do the codes apply to?
The people providing the service.
Anybody who certified through them.
Anyone who got a membership through them.
Common core principles shared by AAA and ASHA.
- The Principle of Safeguarding Client Welfare
- The Principle of Competence
- The Principle of Acting without a Conflict of Interest
- The Principle of Acting without Misrepresentation
- Ethical Practice within Professional Supervision and
Instruction - Ethical Behavior within Professional Relationships
What is EBP?
Evidence-based practice
Basic Research
Adds knowledge about a fundamental process (e.g., how toddlers develop language).
Applied Research
Addresses the impact of intervention approaches; how a specific intervention improves a specific skill in a certain subset of individuals (ex: using Hodson’s Cycles Approach for children with phonological process disorders).
PICO
P = the patient, patient group, or
problem
I = intervention being considered
C = comparison treatment
O = desired outcome
What is public policy?
Any action taken by local, state, or federal officials to address a problem.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (PL 93-112)
Civil rights legislation to provide accommodations for children and adults.
Modifications in an academic setting may include?
Extra time to complete assignments
Adjustments in the length of assignments
Use of peer tutors
Provision of visual aids
Ability to audio record lectures
Use of specialized curricular material
Permission to receive testing orally; extra time to complete tests;
permission to dictate tests
Provision of auxiliary aids and devices including FM systems and assistive
technology
IEP
individualized education plan
IFSP
individualized family service plan
NCLB
No child left behind act
IDEA
Individuals with disabilities education improvement activities
Medicare
administered by a federal agency called the Centers for Medicare and Medical Services (CMS) for individuals who turn 65 years of age or those younger who have a qualifying disability.
Medicaid
Was created by Congress to pay medical bills for persons of low socioeconomic status who have no other financial means to pay for medical care.
clinical service
service performed in a clinic.
multidisciplinary
each does their own testing, but doesn’t work together with.
interdisciplinary
meets up after their own testing to plan ways to help each other. typically interacting with each other.
transisciplinary
all working together, doing evaluations at the same time. Ex: cochlear implant team
Which of the following states the three parts of evidence-based practice the SLP should consider?
Clinical expertise, current best evidence, client values.
A speech pathologist shares with her friend confidential medical information regarding one of her clients. Which of the following pieces of ASHA’s Code of Ethics is she violating?
The principle of safeguarding client welfare.
