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ASHA was recently recognized by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)* as an IACET Licensed Standards User (LSU). ASHA is one of the first organizations to receive this designation from IACET.
This recognition by IACET serves to further the recognition and acceptance of ASHA CEUs by licensing and certifying agencies regulating speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, hearing scientists.
From its inception more than 25 years ago, ASHA's program for the approval and monitoring of CE Providers was modeled after IACET's CEU criteria and requirements. ASHA's approval as a Licensed Standards User solidifies and formalizes its relationship with IACET. LSU designation formalizes ASHA CE's longstanding use of the copyrighted IACET CE standards as the basis of its own standards.
Through the LSU approval process, IACET licenses the use of the copyrighted IACET criteria and required practices to organizations which wish to use the criteria as the basis of continuing education standards particular to their field of expertise. Licensed Standards Users use the IACET standards as the basis of their standards in order to:
- Promote quality and consistency in their continuing education and training;
- Review educational and training processes used by organizations;
- Monitor providers against established criteria; and
- Recognize providers that adhere to the effective practices required by the criteria.
* The International Association for Continuing Education and Training is a non-profit association dedicated to quality continuing education and training programs. IACET grew out of a National Task Force on continuing education commissioned by the Bureau of Education (now the Department of Education) in 1968. The task force included the leaders in continuing education, such as the American Medical Association and American Nursing Association. The Task Force determined the universal guidelines for continuing education and created the Continuing Education Unit (CEU). IACET was created by the task force to provide both a forum for discussion of education standards and an organizational body to promote quality standards. IACET's guidelines are based upon in-depth research on the learning process.
Contact ASHA Continuing Education via email at jjanhunen@asha.org with questions or comments about ASHA's LSU status.
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