2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 71-1,186 — Terms, defined.

Section 71-1,186
Terms, defined.

As used in sections 71-1,186 to 71-1,196 and elsewhere in the Uniform Licensing Law, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) Board shall mean the Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology;

(2) Practice of audiology shall mean the application of principles, methods, and procedures for testing, measuring, and monitoring hearing, preparation of ear impressions and selection of hearing aids, aural rehabilitation, hearing conservation, vestibular testing of patients when vestibular testing is done as a result of a referral by a physician, and instruction related to hearing and disorders of hearing for the purpose of preventing, identifying, evaluating, and minimizing the effects of such disorders and conditions but shall not include the practice of medical diagnosis, medical treatment, or surgery;

(3) Audiologist shall mean an individual who practices audiology and who presents himself or herself to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the words audiologist, hearing clinician, hearing therapist, or any similar title or description of services;

(4) Practice of speech-language pathology shall mean the application of principles, methods, and procedures for the evaluation, monitoring, instruction, habilitation, or rehabilitation related to the development and disorders of speech, voice, or language for the purpose of preventing, identifying, evaluating, and minimizing the effects of such disorders and conditions but shall not include the practice of medical diagnosis, medical treatment, or surgery;

(5) Speech-language pathologist shall mean an individual who presents himself or herself to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the words speech-language pathologist, speech therapist, speech correctionist, speech clinician, language pathologist, language therapist, language clinician, logopedist, communicologist, aphasiologist, aphasia therapist, voice pathologist, voice therapist, voice clinician, phoniatrist, or any similar title, term, or description of services; and

(6) Communication assistant shall mean any person who, following specified training and receiving specified supervision, provides specified limited structured communication services, which are developed and supervised by a licensed audiologist or speech-language pathologist, in the areas in which the supervisor holds licenses.

Source:

Laws 1978, LB 406, § 13

Laws 1985, LB 129, § 14

Laws 1988, LB 1100, § 66

Laws 1999, LB 828, § 130

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska