2011 Reports

The clinical education of students with non-native accents

Deal-Williams, Vicki; Crowley, Catherine J.; Levy, Erika S.; Mahendra, Nidhi

This Professional Issues Statement was developed by a Subcommittee of a former American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Executive Board working group on language proficiency. Members of the group were Catherine J. Crowley, Erika S. Levy, Nidhi Mahendra, and Vicki R. Deal-Williams (ex officio). Julie B. Noel, ASHA vice president for speech-language pathology practice (2009–2011), served as the monitoring officer. This document was approved by the ASHA Board of Directors (BOD 31-2011). ASHA members must consider all applicable local, state, and federal requirements when applying the information in this policy.