All Things Ethics: A Speech Language Pathology Podcast Dr. Elise Davis-McFarland, PhD, CCC-SLP

This podcast provides listeners with scenarios and answers to questions about ethical issues related to supervision of audiology assistants, avoiding conflicts of interest in working with device manufacturers, ethical issues that can arise when managing instrumentations, and the relation between ASHA’s Code of Ethics and state licensure and other regulatory boards.

This podcast provides listeners with scenarios and answers to questions about ethical issues related to ethical issues regarding potential conflicts between autonomy and beneficence in providing services to cognitively communicatively impaired adults, ethical issues related to informed consent in providing services for patients with communication impairments, and speech-language pathologist’s role in the four quadrants decision making model when making decisions on services for patients with communication disorders.

This podcast will introduce listeners to the importance of ethical decision-making in a private practice, how ethics influences hiring and personnel supervision, the role of ethics in building business relationships, how ethics influences growth and development of a private practice, and the relationship of ethics and successful client recruitment.

This podcast will introduce listeners to strategies for developing interprofessional teams, the requirements for ethical interprofessional practice, strategies for addressing and negotiating conflicts and competition in interprofessional practice, developing successful interprofessional teams in school practice, and the ASHA Code of Ethics principles and rules related to interprofessional practice.

This podcast will introduce listeners to the role of ethics in international practice, the types of unintended outcomes that can occur when practicing overseas, use of culturally responsive approaches to assessment and intervention, the international guidelines and policies to be aware of in the development of international practices, the importance of developing sustainable international practices, and the role of volunteerism in overseas programs.

This podcast will provide listeners with information about the ethical requirements for research participants’ informed consent, ethical issues related to publication of research findings, culturally appropriate approaches to research design and implementation, confidentiality and security of research information, pre-registration of research studies, and ASHA’s Code of Ethics principles and rules on the conduct and use of research.