§ 12-210-102 — Definitions

Colorado § 12-210-102

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 12: Professions
• Art.: Audiologists

Text

As used in this article 210, unless the context
otherwise requires:

(1) Audiologist means a person engaged in the practice of audiology.

(2) (a) Hearing aid means any wearable instrument or device designed or
offered to aid or compensate for impaired human hearing and any parts,
attachments, or accessories to the instrument or device, including ear molds but
excluding batteries and cords.

(b) Hearing aid does not include a surgically implanted hearing device.

(3) Practice of audiology means:

(a) (I) The application of principles, methods, and procedures related to the
development, disorders, and conditions of the human auditory-vestibular system,
whether those disorders or conditions are of organic or functional origin, including
disorders of hearing, balance, tinnitus, auditory processing, and other neural
functions, as those principles, methods, and procedures are taught in accredited
programs in audiology.

(II) The principles, methods, or procedures include diagnosis, assessment,
measurement, testing, appraisal, evaluation, rehabilitation, treatment, prevention,
conservation, identification, consultation, counseling, intervention, management,
interpretation, instruction, and research related to hearing, vestibular function,
balance and fall prevention, and associated neural systems, and any abnormal
condition related to tinnitus, auditory sensitivity, acuity, function or processing,
speech, language, or other aberrant behavior resulting from hearing loss, for the
purpose of diagnosing, designing, and implementing audiological management and
treatment or other programs for the amelioration of human auditory-vestibular
system disorders and conditions.

(b) Prescribing, selecting, specifying, evaluating, assisting in the adjustment
to, and dispensing of prosthetic devices for hearing loss, including hearing aids and
hearing assistive devices by means of specialized audiometric equipment or by any
other means accepted by the director;

(c) Determining work-related hearing loss or impairment, as defined by
federal regulations;

(d) Prevention of hearing loss; and

(e) Consulting with, and making referrals to, a physician when appropriate.

(4) Surgically implanted hearing device means a device that is designed to
produce useful hearing sensations to a person with a hearing impairment and that
has, as one or more components, a unit that is surgically implanted into the ear,
skull, or other interior part of the body. The term includes any associated unit that
may be worn on the body.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1047, � 1, effective October 1.