ASHA Practice Policy
ASHA's Practice Policy Documents, along with other cardinal documents of the Association, are written for and by ASHA members and approved by our governance to promulgate best practices and standards in the professions of audiology and speech-language pathology. The document types include
- Preferred Practice Patterns: the informational base for providing quality patient/client care and a focus for professional preparation, continuing education, and research
- Scope of Practice: an outline of the parameters of each of the professions
- Guidelines: current best practice procedures based on available evidence
- Position Statements: public statements of ASHA's official stand on various issues
- Knowledge & Skills: the knowledge and set of skills required for a particular area of practice
- Technical Reports: supporting documentation and research for an ASHA Position Statement
- Relevant Papers: supporting and related professional documents
- Standards/Quality Indicators: documents related to certification, accreditation, and professional standards
- Ethics: includes the Code of Ethics (by which all members and certificate holders are bound) and supporting documents
- Bylaws: the bylaws of ASHA, the ASHFoundation, and the ASHA PAC
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Audiology
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- AAC (see Augmentative and alternative communication)
- Academic programs (see Graduate programs)
- Accents (see Dialects)
- Accreditation
- Acoustic impedance audiometry
- Acoustics
- Admission/discharge criteria
- Adolescents
- Adults
- American Sign Language (ASL)
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
- Amplification
- APD (see Auditory processing)
- Apraxia
- Articulation
- ASHA governance
- ASHA PAC
- Assessment
- Assistive technology
- Audiologic/aural rehabilitation
- Auditory evoked potential
- Auditory integration training
- Auditory processing
- Augmentative and alternative communication
B
- Balance
- Billing codes (see Reimbursement)
- Brain injury
- Bylaws
C
- CAPD (see Auditory processing)
- Caseload
- Certification
- Cerumen
- Children (see also Newborns, Infants and toddlers, Preschool children)
- Classroom acoustics (see Acoustics)
- Cochlear implants
- Code of Ethics
- Cognitive-communication
- Counseling (see Patient/family education)
- Curriculum
D
- Deafness
- Dialects
- Divisions (see Special Interest Groups)
- Documentation activities
- Dysphagia (see Swallowing)
- Dysphonia
E
- Early intervention
- Education (see also Schools)
- Electrical stimulation
- Endoscopy
- English as a Second Language
- Equipment and supplies
- Ethics
- Evidence-based practice
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O
- Orofacial myofunction
- Otolaryngology
- Ototoxicity
- Outer ear (see Cerumen)
P
- Patient/family education
- Patients' rights
- People with disabilities
- Performance evaluation
- Phonology
- Position Statements
- Practice management
- Preferred Practice Patterns
- Preschool children
- Prevention
- Private practice
- Professional Issues Statements
- Professional titles
- Prosthetic devices
R
- Racism
- Rapid Prompting Method
- Referral
- Rehabilitation
- Reimbursement
- Relevant Papers
- Research
- Resonance
S
- Schools
- Scope of Practice
- Screening
- Service delivery models
- Severe disabilities (see People with disabilities)
- SLPAs
- Spasmodic dysphonia (see Dysphonia)
- Special Interest Groups
- Speech (see Articulation, Fluency, Phonology, Stuttering)
- Speech audiometry
- Standards/Quality Indicators
- Stroboscopy
- Students
- Stuttering
- Supervision
- Support personnel
- Swallowing
T
- Technical Reports
- Tongue thrust (see Orofacial myofunction)
- Trachea
- Traumatic brain injury (see Brain injury)
