2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards
Chapter 399 - Speech and Language Pathologists
Section 20-413 - Permitted activities.

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting:

(1) Consulting with or disseminating research findings and scientific information to accredited academic institutions or governmental agencies or offering lectures to the public for a fee, monetary or otherwise;

(2) The activities and services of a graduate student or speech and language pathology intern in speech and language pathology pursuing a course of study leading to a graduate degree in speech and language pathology at an accredited or approved college or university or a clinical training facility approved by the department, provided these activities and services constitute a part of his or her supervised course of study and that such person is designated as “Speech and Language Pathology Intern”, “Speech and Language Pathology Trainee”, or other such title clearly indicating the training status appropriate to the level of training;

(3) (A) A person from another state offering speech and language pathology services in this state, provided such services are performed for no more than five days in any calendar year and provided such person meets the qualifications and requirements for licensing in this state; or (B) a person from another state who is licensed or certified as a speech and language pathologist by a similar authority of another state, or territory of the United States, or of a foreign country or province whose standards are equivalent to or greater than, at the date of his or her certification or licensure, the requirements of this chapter and regulations adopted hereunder, or a person who meets such qualifications and requirements and resides in a state or territory of the United States, or a foreign country or province which does not grant certification or license to speech and language pathologists, from offering speech and language pathology services in this state for a total of not more than thirty days in any calendar year;

(4) The activities and services of a person who meets the requirements of subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of section 20-411, while such person is engaged in full or part-time employment in fulfillment of the professional employment requirement of subdivision (3) of said subsection (a);

(5) The use of supervised support personnel to assist licensed speech and language pathologists with tasks that are (A) designed by the licensed speech and language pathologists being assisted, (B) routine, and (C) related to maintenance of assistive and prosthetic devices, recording and charting or implementation of evaluation or intervention plans. For purposes of this subdivision, “supervised” means (i) not more than three support personnel are assisting one licensed speech and language pathologist, (ii) in-person communication between the licensed speech and language pathologist and support personnel is available at all times, and (iii) the licensed speech and language pathologist provides the support personnel with regularly scheduled direct observation, guidance, direction and conferencing for not less than thirty per cent of client contact time for the support personnel’s first ninety workdays and for not less than twenty per cent of client contact time thereafter; or

(6) The provision of applied behavior analysis services by a board certified behavior analyst or a board certified assistant behavior analyst, as such terms are defined in section 20-185i, in accordance with section 10-76ii.

(P.A. 73-570, S. 6, 12; P.A. 80-484, S. 161, 176; P.A. 86-117, S. 4, 5; P.A. 94-210, S. 10, 30; P.A. 97-213, S. 6; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-4, S. 20, 58; P.A. 05-272, S. 26; P.A. 09-232, S. 65; P.A. 14-231, S. 38.)

History: P.A. 80-484 referred to “authority” rather than “board” of another state in Subsec. (d)(2); P.A. 86-117 added Subdiv. (h) pertaining to an exemption under Sec. 20-412a; P.A. 94-210 amend Subsec. (e) to make technical changes and deleted Subsec. (h) re exemptions that are repealed, effective June 9, 1994; P.A. 97-213 revised Subsec. and Subdiv. designations, added Subdiv. (8) re use of supervised support personnel and made technical changes; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-4 amended Subdiv. (7) by changing hearing aid dealers to hearing instrument specialists, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 05-272 replaced “speech pathology” with “speech and language pathology” and made conforming changes in Subdivs. (2), (4) and (8); P.A. 09-232 deleted former Subdiv. (3) re audiology graduate student or intern, redesignated existing Subdivs. (4) and (5) as Subdivs. (3) and (4), deleted “or audiology” and “or audiologist” in redesignated Subdiv. (3), deleted former Subdivs. (6) and (7) re nurses and hearing instrument specialists and redesignated existing Subdiv. (8) as Subdiv. (5); P.A. 14-231 added Subdiv. (6) re provision of applied behavior analysis services and made technical changes, effective June 13, 2014.