Current through 2024 First Special Session
Section 30-32-14 - Scope of practice for audiology(a) The scope of practice for audiology includes: (1) Facilitating the conservation of Auditory system function, developing and implementing environmental and occupational hearing conservation programs;(2) Screening, identifying, assessing and interpreting, preventing and rehabilitating peripheral and central Auditory system disorders;(3) Providing and interpreting behavioral and electro- physiological measurements of Auditory and vestibular functions;(4) Selecting, fitting, programming and dispensing of amplification, assistive listening and alerting devices and programming and other systems (e.g., implantative devices) and providing training in their use;(5) Providing audiologic and aural rehabilitation and related counseling services to individuals with hearing impairments and their families;(6) Providing vestibular rehabilitation;(8) Screening of speech-language and other factors affecting communication disorders: Provided, That judgments and descriptive statements about the results of the screenings are limited to pass/fail determinations.(b) A person licensed under this article as an audiologist is not required to obtain a license under the provisions of article twenty-six of this chapter.Amended by 2013 Acts, ch. 154 (HB 2531), eff. 4/13/2013.