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Ensuring Language Access in Health Care Settings (PD102262)
An increasingly diverse United States means that clinicians are encountering more languages in hospital settings. SLPs and audiologists have a legal and ethical responsibility to ensure language access—that is, to actively bridge communication challenges between clinicians and patients/families who do not speak, understand, read, or write in the same language. This session discusses language access law and solutions for situations in which a trained medical interpreter is unavailable.
This course is a recorded session from the 2021 online conference “Empowered SLPs in Health Care: Breaking Barriers and Shaping Solutions.”
Learning
Outcomes
You will be able
to:
- define language access and describe how language barriers impact clinical practice
- explain legal and ethical responsibilities when using medical interpreters
- identify short-term solutions for situations when a medical interpreter is unavailable and describe how to implement a language access plan
DEI Professional Development Requirement
This course counts toward the ASHA certification maintenance professional development requirement for DEI (which encompasses cultural competency; cultural humility; culturally responsive practice; and diversity, equity, and inclusion). See more courses that count toward this requirement or read more about professional development requirements for certification maintenance.
Assessment Type
Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.