Pennsylvania Code › Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS › Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS › Chapter 45 - STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS IN SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 45.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
ASHA
-The American
						Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Act
-The Speech-Language Pathologists and
						Audiologists Licensure Act (63 PS. §§ 1701-1719).
Biennial renewal period
-The period from
						August 1 of an even-numbered year to July 31 of the next even-numbered
						year.
Board
-The State Board of Examiners in
						Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology.
Business entity
-A lawful form of
						organization, including a corporation, partnership, trust, association, company
						or other similar form of organization.
Clock hour
-Consists of 50 to 60 minutes
						of instruction or participation in an approved continuing education course or
						program.
Continuing education record
-Report
						provided to a participant in a continuing education course or program by the
						provider which conforms to §
											45.506(b)
						(relating to provider responsibilities).
Direct supervision
-The personal,
						on-premises observation of activities performed by personnel working under the
						licensee or qualified training supervisor.
Inactive license
-A license status in
						which the licensee notifies the Board that the licensee no longer requires an
						active license to practice.
Lapsed license
-A license status in which
						the license has not been currently renewed.
Licensees
-Speech-language pathologists
						and audiologists.
Neurophysiologic intraoperative
						monitoring
-The process of continual testing and interpreting of
						results by the use of electrodiagnostic modalities to identify and monitor the
						functional integrity of neurological structures to reduce the risk of injury
						and complications related to the nervous system during a surgical
						procedure.
Practice of audiology
-The application of
						principles, methods and procedures related to disorders of the auditory and
						vestibular systems including all of the following:
(i) Prevention of hearing loss by designing,
					 implementing and coordinating industrial, school and community-based hearing
					 conservation programs.
(ii)
					 Identification of dysfunction of hearing, balance and other auditory-related
					 systems by developing and overseeing hearing and balance-related screening
					 programs for persons of all age, including newborn and school screening
					 programs.
(iii) Administration of
					 speech or language screening or other measures for the purpose of initial
					 identification and referral of persons with other communicative
					 disorders.
(iv) Assessment and
					 nonmedical diagnosis and treatment of hearing and vestibular disorders through
					 the administration of behavioral, psychoacoustic, electrophysiologic tests of
					 the peripheral and central auditory and vestibular systems using standardized
					 test procedures, including all of the following:
(A) Audiometry.
(B) Tympanometry.
(C) Acoustic reflex measures.
(D) Otoacoustic emissions.
(E) Auditory evoked potentials.
(F) Video and
					 electronystagmography.
(G) Tests of
					 central auditory function using calibrated instrumentation leading to the
					 diagnosis of auditory and vestibular dysfunction abnormality.