2025 Delaware Code
Title 24 - Professions and Occupations
Chapter 37. Speech/Language Pathologists, Audiologists, and Hearing Aid Dispensers [For application of this chapter, see 84 Del. Laws, c. 418, § 2]
Subchapter I. Board of Speech/Language Pathologists, Audiologists, and Hearing Aid Dispensers [For application of this subchapter, see 84 Del. Laws, c. 418, § 2]
§ 3701. Objectives [For application of this section, see 84 Del. Laws, c. 418, § 2].
The primary objective of the Board of Speech/Language Pathologists, Audiologists, and Hearing Aid Dispensers, to which all other objectives and purposes are secondary, is to protect the general public, specifically those persons who are the direct recipients of services regulated by this chapter, from unsafe practices and from occupational practices which tend to reduce competition or fix the price of services rendered.
The secondary objectives of the Board are to maintain minimum standards of practitioner competency and to maintain certain standards in the delivery of services to the public. In meeting its objectives, the Board shall develop standards assuring professional competence; shall monitor complaints brought against practitioners regulated by the Board; shall adjudicate at formal hearings; shall promulgate rules and regulations; and shall impose sanctions where necessary against licensed practitioners.
24 Del. C. 1953, § 3601; 59 Del. Laws, c. 206, § 1; 63 Del. Laws, c. 151, § 2; 65 Del. Laws, c. 224, § 1; 72 Del. Laws, c. 266, § 1; 84 Del. Laws, c. 418, § 1;
