Can-and Should-an SLP Serve as an Expert Witness?

Speech-language pathologists can be asked to serve as expert witnesses in lawsuits and due process cases involving malpractice, health care disputes, privacy and confidentiality breaches, abuse, child custody, fraud, special education conflicts, criminal cases, civil rights claims, and more. [...]concerns could include time commitments beyond your availability, uncomfortable cross-examinations, an unhealthy sense of vulnerability as a liable professional, and the possibility of unexpected findings (for example, the need to report an SLP to a state licensing board and/or the ASHA Board of Ethics). * Are you familiar with relevant state and federal laws and regulations, and fair and reasonable billing practices, and can you apply them and the ASHA Code of Ethics, in forming and informing an opinion? Connect sessions offer relevant, practical tips that clinicians can implement right away. Because Private Practice Connect is happening in the same online space as Schools Connect and Health Care Connect, registrants may participate in sessions in all conferences.