Cost Effective Ethics CEUs for SLPs

In my state of Illinois, starting in the 2017-2019 cycle, we are required to have one hour of ethics continuing education to renew our IDFPR license (which is a two year cycle, which always starts on November 1 and runs to October 31, two years later).

You’ll definitely want to check your own state, but here are a few current requirements that I am aware of:

Personally, I find these different year requirements make my head hurt!  What I’ve done is put reminders on my Google calendar on January 1 of each year that I will need to make sure to have an ethics course – so, for example, I’ll need to take one hour in either 2020 or 2021 to meet the requirements for Illinois (November 1, 2019 – October 31, 2021 cycle) and ASHA (January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2022 cycle), and then wait until 2023 to take another hour between January and October, so it will count for both licenses (Illinois – November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2023 and ASHA – January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2025).

If you are looking for reasonably priced courses to meet your ethics requirements, no matter the year, I’ve found some for you!  Check out these online offerings below:

• Bilinguistics: Navigating Ethical Predicaments in Your Work with Diverse Students  Length: 1 hour   Cost: Free
• ISHA: The Illinois Speech-Language Hearing Association offers a one hour course on Introduction to Ethics that is free for ISHA members – it is available for $35 to nonmembers (which includes out of state SLPs).
• Lavi Institute – create a login and gain access to 1 free ethics course and 1 free supervision course  Cost:  Free
• 2022 update:  Looks like previous free courses from Super Duper Inc and Linguigraphica are no longer available

Low cost:

• The Informed SLP: Considerations for Ethical Practice   Length: 1 Hour   Cost: $10 for members, $28 for non members  (PS: see my review of the membership here!)
• ABA Speech:  Ethics – An Overview Focusing on Social Media and Collaboration   Length: 2 Hours  Cost:  $9.99
• Bilinguistics: Ethical Considerations for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations  Length: 2 Hours   Cost: $30
• Northern Speech Services: Ethics 1: Evidence and Clinical Decision Making  Length: 1 Hour  Cost: $24
• Northern Speech Services: Ethics 2: Patient Values & Clinician Bias  Length: 1 hour   Cost: $24
•  Northern Speech Services: Ethics, Evidence, & Pediatric Decision Making   Length: 1 hour   Cost: $24
• Northern Speech Services: Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing: Ethics Across Settings Ensuring Quality of Care Through Collaboration  Length: 1 hour  Cost: $24
• Northern Speech Services: Ethics, Evidence, and Clinical Decision Making   Length: 3 hours   Cost: $59
• Professional Development Resources: Ethics for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology  Length: 2 hours   Cost: $29

Membership sites:

• SpeechPathology.com:  Several 1 to 1.5 hour courses available in the unlimited $99 per year membership fee, including: Ethical Decision Making, Addressing Ethical Challenges Associated with Serving Children with Swallowing and Feeding Disorders in the Schools, Mentoring, Professionalism, and Ethics in Practicum Students and Colleagues, and Supervision of Supervisees in an Ethical Manner.  BONUS: Get one free course if you haven’t been a member of the site before by using the code “1FREECOURSE”
• SpeechTherapyPD.com: Several 1 hour courses and one 2 hour course available in the unlimited $89 per year membership fee, but also available to be purchased individually, including: Ethics and Early Intervention ($24.99 individually), Ethics of Early Intervention ($24.99 individually), Finding an Ethical Place to Work ($29.99 individually), and Navigating the Gray: Ethical Practice ($34.99 individually)

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