Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 690 - Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Chapter 15 - Rules of Practice
Section 690:15-1-4 - Ethical proscriptions

(A) Licensees must not exploit persons in the delivery of professional services, including accepting persons for treatment when benefit cannot reasonably be expected or continuing treatment unnecessarily.

(B) Licensees must not guarantee the results of any therapeutic procedures, directly or by implication. A reasonable statement of prognosis may be made, but caution must be exercised not to mislead persons served professionally to expect results that cannot be predicted from sound evidence.

(C) Licensees must not use persons for teaching or research in a manner that constitutes invasion of privacy or fails to afford informed free choice to participate.

(D) Licensees must not provide clinical services except in a professional relationship. They must not evaluate or treat solely by correspondence. Correspondence means a type of practice in which services are delivered through communication methods that do not involve same-time interactivity between the licensee and the patient, such as regular mail, email, and facsimile. This does not preclude follow-up correspondence with persons previously seen, or providing them with general information of an educational nature.

(E) Licensees must not reveal to unauthorized persons any professional or personal information obtained from the person served professionally, unless required by law or unless necessary to protect the welfare of the person or the community.

(F) Licensees must not discriminate in the delivery of professional services on any basis that is unjustifiable or irrelevant to the need for and potential benefit from such services, such as race, sex religion or condition.

(G) Licensees must not charge for services not rendered.

(H) Licensees shall not violate any provisions of the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Licensing Act or Rules.

(A) Licensees must neither provide services nor supervision of services for which they have not been properly prepared, nor permit services to be provided by any of their staff who are not properly prepared.

(B) Licensees must not provide clinical services by prescription of anyone who does not hold a license or its equivalent in the appropriate area.

(C) Licensees must not offer clinical services by supportive personnel for whom they do not provide appropriate supervision and assume full responsibility.

(D) Licensees must not require anyone under their supervision to engage in any practice that is a violation of the Code of Ethics.

(A) Licensees must not misrepresent their training or competence. Academic degrees, if listed, must be those awarded by a college or university listed in the Education Directory: Higher Education (published by the United States Department of Education).

(B) Licensees' public statements providing information about professional services and products must not contain representations or claims that are false, deceptive or misleading.

(C) Licensees must not use professional or commercial affiliations in any way that would mislead or limit services to persons served professionally.