What are my responsibilities for supervising unqualified personnel?
In ASHA’s position statement on ” Training, Use, and Supervision of Support Personnel in Speech Language Pathology,” it is stated that support personnel may be used to perform activities adjunct to the primary clinical efforts of speech-language pathologists. Appropriate training and supervision must be provided by speech-language pathologists who hold ASHA’s Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology. Activities may be assigned only at the discretion of the supervising speech-language pathologist and should be constrained by the job responsibilities for support personnel. The communication needs and protection of the consumer must be held paramount at all times. For more on this topic see Qualified Providers in Schools on the ASHA Web site.
