Got Civility? ASHA Digital Toolkit Promotes Respectful Online Communication

As communication professionals, ASHA members can and should set a strong example of promoting and practicing civil discourse. But 53% of members responding to an ASHA survey had experienced uncivil discourse on professional social media sites in the previous 12 months, and 36% had experienced incivility on personal social media. Although ASHA has codes of conduct and behavior for its official online platforms—such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram—ASHA can’t establish or enforce such codes on other sites, such as private Facebook groups. But members tell us they are often frustrated by the incivility on these sites, and that conversations are diametrically opposed to ASHA’s civility codes and cultural competence standards. Seeking Civility Among Faculty  To help battle incivility and bullying in the workplace, some employers are calling on employees to target problem behavior.  Bullying and Intimidation in Clinical Supervision  In our politically charged times, an SLP walks into a battle of insults—and turns it into a thought-provoking discussion for some high-schoolers.  In response, ASHA has compiled civility-related tools, templates and resources in a digital toolkit. Members can use these tools to cope with online environments that don’t reflect ASHA’s standards of professional conduct or promote the cultural competency principles ASHA espouses, and to model the respectful ways in which we can agree to disagree. The tools can help members to conduct...
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