This sixth edition of Professional Issues in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology is
intended to be a primary text for students in speech-language pathology and audiology, as
well as a resource for practitioners, providing a comprehensive introduction to contemporary
issues that affect these professions and service delivery across settings. It aims to provide a
better understanding that day-to-day clinical work, as well as personal professional growth
and development are influenced by political, social, educational, health care, and economic …

Audiologists and speech-language pathologists define and practise their discipline within a
broad context of legal, cultural and societal expectations, responsibilities and constraints
which vary geographically and over time. Whereas professional methodology is taught from
the framework of a science-based philosophy, subject to objective verification, science is
only one of many forces which shape culture. Professional issues, which arise from the
interface of the discipline and society, are largely determined by precedence and …