Education, Training, and Supervision Subject Codes
Education, Training, and Supervision is one of five categories ASHA Continuing Education (CE) uses to identify the subject code for a CE course. The bullets listed below each code are examples of content appropriate for that subject. Additional examples that may apply can be found on the overview subject code page.
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- Communication Sciences – 1070
- Education and Training Issues Associated with Speech, Language, Hearing and Related Disorders – 7020
- Leadership and Management in Professional Speech, Language and Hearing Practice Settings and Pre-professional Training Programs – 7050
- Pre-professional Preparation Associated With Speech, Language, Hearing and Related Disorders – 7015
- Supervision and Clinical Education – 7080
- 2020 Changes
Communication Sciences – 1070
Content Area: Professional
- Genetic basis of speech/language/hearing and related development and disorders
- Hearing science, including the following:
- Acoustics and psychophysics
- Acoustic calibration and national/international standards
- Models of hearing development
- Models of vestibular development
- Speech perception and acoustics
- Vestibular/balance science
- Implications of neuroscientific advances
- Instrumentation for analysis (including signal processing, neural imaging, modeling, ultrasound, and biofeedback)
- Neural correlates of typical production and perception (e.g., speech motor control)
- Neural plasticity
- Speech/language science
- Cognitive-communication foundations of language development and use
- Comparisons of behaviors of groups with and without speech, language, and hearing disorders
- Language, metalinguistic, and/or cognitive-communication development
- Models of typical speech development (i.e., typical acquisition and age-related changes)
- Normal acquisition and study of speech and language processes: spoken, written, and signed language
- Psycholinguistics of language
- Second and multi-language learning and use in adults and children: speech, language, and hearing implications
- Theories and models of language and its disorders
- Theoretical models of language development and use across the lifespan
Education and Training Issues Associated With Speech, Language, Hearing, and Related Disorders – 7020
Content area: Professional or Related
- Accreditation and reaccreditation standards
- Continuing education and continuing competency
- Curricular development
- Distance learning/online education
- Education in the principles and implementation of evidence-based practices
- Formal training in forensic speech-language pathology e.g., malpractice lawsuits, insurance company claim disputes, personal injury cases, and special education hearings and disability benefit hearings]
- Grant writing specific to speech, language, hearing, and related disorders
- Skill development in effective presentation of information to clients, students, families, and caregivers
- Skills related to planning, conducting, and interpreting research activities
- Simulation labs as well as standardized and virtual patients
Leadership and Management in Professional Speech, Language, and Hearing Practice Settings and Pre-professional Training Programs – 7050
Content Area: Professional or Related
- Budget development and management
- Business practices and marketing issues directly related to clinical service delivery
- Clinical instruction and education
- Competencies and alignment of job responsibilities
- Interprofessional practice environment
- Leadership and management styles in personnel and alignment in the assignment and performance of the job or task
- Mission statements, vision statements, scope of practice issues, and daily management activities
- Models of management and leadership development and their application
- Organizational structure and communication systems
- Personnel management, such as interviewing, hiring, retention, employee performance documentation, conducting employee performance reviews and employee termination
- Role transition from an employee to a manager
- Skills related to marketing and promotional techniques
Pre-professional Preparation Associated With Speech, Language, Hearing, and Related Disorders – 7015
Content Area: Professional or Related
- Assessment of academic and clinical teaching
- Course design and development—theory and strategies
- Education in locating and applying for sources of funding and grants
- Education in the principles and implementation of evidence-based practice
- Educational models of learning, assessment, and instruction
- Evidence/outcome measures of student learning and documentation of the acquisition of the Council for Clinical Certification in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CFCC) competencies as well as state and regional credentialing requirements
- Pedagogy, andragogy, and adult learning strategies
- Review of a broad range of topics in the subject area of speech, language, hearing, and related disorders—in preparation for the Praxis® examination in speech-language pathology and/or the Praxis® examination in audiology
- Skills related to planning, conducting, and interpreting clinical research activities
- Skill development in effective presentation of information to clients, families, professionals in related fields, colleagues, and support personnel
- Simulations
Supervision and Clinical Instruction – 7080
Content Area: Professional and Related
- Clinical instructor/preceptor role, including the use of knowledge, skills, and requirements in providing supervision to the following individuals: (a) undergraduate and graduate students, (b) preceptors of audiology externs, (c) mentors of clinical fellows in speech-language pathology, (d) supervisors of support personnel, and (e) supervisors of individuals transitioning to a new area of practice or reentering the profession.
- Formative and summative assessment, including the use of support models for improvement.
- Incorporating and using current, new, and emerging technologies for education, clinical practice, remote supervision/mentorship, and telepractice. This includes alternative clinical education experiences (e.g., case simulations and standardized patient).
- Models of supervision types that include the following topics: roles and responsibilities; learning styles and techniques; how models incorporate ethical dilemmas; regulatory provisions in service delivery; payor sources/reimbursement; reflective practice; relationship development; communication skills; critical thinking; modifications to treatment plans; and elective and nonelective therapy.
- Supervisee/mentee education covering the supervision process, observation techniques, data collection, documentation, feedback, motivation, guidance and amount of supervision, expectations, evidence-based practice and developing and achieving treatment and personal goals that incorporate critical skill.
- Student and Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY) supervision and clinical instruction in knowledge levels that include factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive areas.
- Student and CFY supervision and clinical instruction in cognitive domains that incorporate knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, and evaluation.
- Student and CFY supervision and clinical instruction in affective domains that include receiving, responding, valuing, organizing, and characterizing.
- Use of techniques to demonstrate recognition of and access to appropriate accommodation for supervisees or mentees with disabilities.
2020 Changes
- 7080 Supervision and Clinical Education renamed Supervision and Clinical Instruction 7080
- 9040 Review Courses for the Praxis Examinations in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology retired, and content merged into Pre-professional Preparation Associated with Speech, Language, Hearing and Related Disorders 7015
