ASHA Learning Pass

Individuals with dementia and their loved ones face many challenges, including functional decline, loss of independence, and decisions related to end-of-life medical and social interventions, among others. This session reviews key principles and medical-legal precedents related to the ethical issues that SLPs might encounter when working with individuals with dementia, focusing on changes in communication, decision-making capacity, and ability to sustain nutrition and hydration.

Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• identify how to discern an ethical dilemma from a clinical one
• describe practical problem-solving approaches used to manage ethical dilemmas in clinical practice
• apply ethical problem-solving strategies to individual clients’ situations

This course is part of a Learning Path: Assessing and Treating Individuals With Dementia.

What is a learning path? A learning path is a curated set of courses on an essential topic, designed for you to take in order—or in whatever order you wish—as you have time in your schedule. Our learning paths identify sets of key courses so you can get on your way to mastering particular areas of practice according to your needs, priorities, and interests.

Learning Assessment
Self-assessment

Ethics: Professional Development Requirement

This course is registered under the Ethics and Ethical Decision-Making subject code and will fulfill the 1-hour Ethics professional development requirement for ASHA’s certification maintenance, which is in effect beginning with certificate holders in the 2020-2022 certification maintenance interval.