§ 30-32-14 — Scope of practice for audiology

West Virginia § 30-32-14

• Jurisdiction: West Virginia
• Ch. 30: PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
• Art. 32: SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS

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(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;

(7) Cerumen removal; and

(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.

Legislative History

2013 Reg. Sess., HB2531; 2011 Reg. Sess., HB2524; 1992 Reg. Sess., HB4416