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In a letter [PDF] to Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CAPCSD) President Celia Hooper, the ASHA Executive Board recently affirmed the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology's (CAA) accreditation model as the single nationally recognized accreditor for the professions of audiology and speech-language pathology within the discipline of communication sciences and disorders.
The affirmation stemmed from the fact that in recent months, ASHA—along with the CAA, the American Academy of Audiology (AAA), and the Accreditation Commission for Audiology Education (ACAE)—participated in a series of meetings at the invitation of the CAPCSD.
The meetings were designed to address CAPCSD's concern that audiology programs may face two accrediting agencies and to discuss a possible revised structure and accreditation process for graduate education programs in audiology and speech-language pathology.
As a result of its active participation in these facilitated meetings and follow-up discussions, ASHA determined that: the principles of accreditation identified during the CAPCSD facilitated meetings were consistent with the principles under which the CAA has been operating since its establishment; and, that the new accreditation models proposed during the meetings provided no significant improvement or advantage over the model now used by the CAA.
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