Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 10 - MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Part 3 › Subtitle 21 - MENTAL HYGIENE REGULATIONS › Chapter 10.21.08 - Services for Mentally Ill Hearing Impaired Patients in Facilities › Section 10.21.08.02 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. The following
				  terms have the meanings indicated.
B. Terms Defined.
(1) "Administration" means the Mental Hygiene
				  Administration.
(2) "Audiologist"
				  means an individual who is authorized to practice audiology under Health
				  Occupations Article, Title 2, Annotated Code of Maryland.
(3) "Certified interpreter for hearing
				  impaired persons" means an interpreter who possesses at the minimum a
				  Comprehensive Skills Certificate issued by the Registry of Interpreters for the
				  Deaf.
(4) "Documented history of
				  deafness or hearing impairment" means a documented diagnosis of hearing
				  impairment made by an audiologist or by a Board-eligible or Board-certified
				  otolaryngologist.
(5) "Facility"
				  means an inpatient or residential treatment program operated directly by the
				  Administration.
(6) "Gross testing"
				  means either an interactive process which screens a person's ability to follow
				  ordinary conversation or pure tone audiometric screening.
(7) "Hearing aid" means any instrument or
				  device designed for or represented as aiding, improving, or correcting hearing
				  and any parts, attachments, or accessories of this instrument or
				  device.
(8) "Hearing impaired
				  individual" means a person with an impairment so severe that with or without
				  amplification, the processing of linguistic information through hearing is
				  impaired.
(9) "Individual treatment
				  plan" means the plan of care identified for each patient as outlined in COMAR
				  10.21.03.
(10) "Mental illness"
				  means an illness resulting from a psychiatric disorder and does not include a
				  primary diagnosis of alcohol or drug abuse or developmental
				  disability.
(11) "Otolaryngologist"
				  means a physician identified by the State Board of Physician Quality Assurance
				  as a specialist in otolaryngology as set forth in Health Occupations Article,
				  §14-704, Annotated Code of Maryland.
(12) "Physician" means an individual who is
				  authorized to practice medicine under Health Occupations Article, Title 14,
				  Annotated Code of Maryland.
(13)
				  "Pure tone audiometric screening" means the pure tone air conduction screening
				  procedure used to rapidly and effectively identify a patient with a hearing
				  impairment that interferes with or has the potential for interfering with
				  communication.
(14) "Qualified
				  allied health professional" means the staff assigned by the facility and
				  trained by an audiologist in procedures outlined in this chapter.
(15) "Rinne and Weber testing" means the
				  tuning fork test used to differentiate between conductive and sensory-neural
				  hearing losses.
(16)
				  "Speech-language pathologist" means an individual who is authorized to practice
				  speech-language pathology under Health Occupations Article, Title 19, Annotated
				  Code of Maryland.
(17) "Speech
				  reading" means the use of visual cues in determining what the speaker is saying
				  and may also be referred to as lip reading.
(18) "Unit" means the inpatient unit of the
				  institution designated by the Administration created specifically to treat
				  those patients having both a mental illness and a hearing impairment.