2005 Idaho Code - 54-2907 — AUDIOLOGY, SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND HEARING AID DEALERS AND FITTERS SUPPORT PERSONNEL -- SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AIDES AND SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY ASSISTANTS

                                  TITLE  54
                    PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
                                  CHAPTER 29
                   SPEECH AND HEARING SERVICES PRACTICE ACT
    54-2907.  AUDIOLOGY, SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND HEARING AID DEALERS AND
FITTERS SUPPORT PERSONNEL -- SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AIDES AND
SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY ASSISTANTS. (1) Audiology, speech-language pathology
and hearing aid dealer and fitter support personnel must be trained under the
direction of an audiologist, speech-language pathologist or hearing aid dealer
and fitter, respectively, and may only perform designated and supervised
routine audiology, speech-language pathology or hearing aid dealer and fitter
tasks, respectively.
    (2)  Support personnel, speech-language pathology aides and
speech-language pathology assistants shall not act independently and shall
only work under the direction and supervision of an audiologist,
speech-language pathologist or hearing aid dealer and fitter, respectively,
licensed under this chapter.
    (3)  The supervising audiologist, speech-language pathologist or hearing
aid dealer and fitter accepts full responsibility for the tasks and activities
of support personnel and speech-language pathology aides and assistants under
their direction and supervision.
    (4)  Support personnel, aides and assistants shall at all times be
designated by the title "support personnel," "aide" or "assistant,"
respectively, which clearly identifies such person's status as support
personnel or as an aide or assistant, and such person shall not use any
prohibited title as set forth in section 54-2904, Idaho Code.
    (5)  The board shall establish rules to define the role of audiology,
speech-language pathology and hearing aid dealer and fitter support personnel
and speech-language pathology aides and assistants including, but not limited
to:
    (a)  Supervisory responsibilities of the licensee;
    (b)  Ratio of support personnel, aides or assistants to licensees;
    (c)  Designation of support personnel's designated and supervised routine
    audiology, speech-language pathology or hearing aid dealer and fitter
    tasks, restrictions and responsibilities;
    (d)  Scope of practice for speech-language pathology aides and assistants,
    restrictions, and responsibilities;
    (e)  Frequency, duration and documentation of direct, on-site supervision;
    and
    (f)  The quantity and content of preservice and in-service instruction.