The ASHA DEI Requirement: What It Is and How to Meet It
On January 1, 2023, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) implemented a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) certification maintenance requirement that applies to those who hold ASHA certificates for the January 1, 2023–December 31, 2025 maintenance interval.
To maintain their ASHA certification, SLPs must now complete at least two professional development hours (PDHs) in cultural competency, cultural humility, culturally responsive practice, or diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
As part of our commitment to helping SLPs advance their careers and patient care, MedBridge offers a number of courses that will allow you to meet the ASHA DEI requirement.
How to Fulfill the DEI Requirement with MedBridge
Our extensive catalog of courses for SLPs includes courses that have been registered with ASHA under the specialty code 7030, which corresponds with the DEI requirement. You can view these specialty code courses in our ASHA Special Subject Codes Help Center article along with their corresponding CEU information. To help you choose the courses that are best for you, we’ve also provided a convenient breakdown below of our DEI courses.
Quick View: MedBridge DEI Course Breakdown
Our DEI courses include:
- Three courses focused on LGBTQ:
- Cultural Humility With Transgender and Nonbinary People
- Understanding the Needs of LGBTQ Patients and Clients
- Welcoming LGBTQ Patients and Clients
- Six courses focused on diversity, cultural sensitivity, and countering bias:
- Supporting a Diverse Future Healthcare Workforce
- Patient-Centered Care for Culturally Diverse Patients
- Cultural Sensitivity in the Health Care Workplace
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Don’tSee Color: How Your Own Cultural Identity Shapes Your Clinical Practice - Preventing Ageism in Healthcare
- Implicit Bias: Strategies to Counter Bias in Clinical Interactions (June 2023 Recorded Webinar)
- Two courses focused on the ethical considerations of behavioral health:
- Ethical Engagement: Essentials in Short-Term Behavioral Health
- Embracing Ethical Screening and Assessment for Short-Term Behavioral Health
- Eleven courses focused on bilingual individuals:
- Foundations in Bilingual and Biliterate Learning and Development
- Assessment of Bilingual Children and English Language Learners
- Bilingualism and Children with Communication Disabilities
- English Language Learners Part 1: Second Language Learning Concerns
- English Language Learners Part 2: Legal Issues in Nonbiased Assessment
- English Language Learners Part 3: Nonstandardized Assessment Methods
- English Language Learners Part 4: Dynamic Assessment & Evaluation
- English Language Learners Part 5: Language Impairment Intervention
- Speech and Language Assessment for Bilingual Children
- Spanish-Speaking Children With Highly Unintelligible Speech
- Increasing Speech Intelligibility of Spanish-Speaking Children
Our Top Ten Most-Viewed DEI Courses
- Patient-Centered Care for Culturally Diverse Patients
- Preventing Ageism in Healthcare
- Understanding the Needs of LGBTQ Patients and Clients
- Implicit Bias: Strategies to Counter Bias in Clinical Interactions (June 2023) (Recorded Webinar)
- Welcoming LGBTQ Patients and Clients
- I
Don’tSee Color: How Your Own Cultural Identity Shapes Your Clinical Practice - Cultural Sensitivity in the Health Care Workplace
- Cultural Humility With Transgender and Nonbinary People
- Supporting a Diverse Future Healthcare Workforce
- Ethical Engagement: Essentials in Short-Term Behavioral Health
For more information on the courses listed above and to also view courses registered under the specialty codes 7070 (Ethics) and 7080 (Supervision), read the Help Center article.
The MedBridge ASHA Reporting Benefit
Did you know that in addition to providing top-notch online courses, MedBridge can also submit your CEU-eligible and ASHA-registered course completions monthly to ASHA on your behalf? This service is available to all users who either purchase a course individually or have an accredited subscription where course completion certificates are downloadable, and have an active ASHA certification. To benefit from this service, you must opt in to ASHA reporting. Find out how in this Help Center article.
MedBridge’s professional development courses are available for SLPs with and without CCC credentials, and may likely fulfill the requirements of your state licensing board. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the MedBridge Support Team!
