The overriding principle is that audiologists will provide only those
services for which they are adequately prepared through their academic and clinical
training, their experience, and their continuing education. The practice of audiology
includes:
(a) Screening, identifying, assessing,
interpreting, diagnosing, preventing, and (re)habilitating peripheral and central
auditory system dysfunctions;
(b) Conducting
otoscopic examinations and removing cerumen from external ear canal;
(c) Providing and interpreting behavioral and
(electro)physiological measurements of auditory, vestibular, and neural
functions.
(d) Evaluating and managing
children and adults with central auditory processing disorders;
(e) Conducting newborn hearing screening
programs;
(f) Assessing and providing
nonmedical management of tinnitus;
(g)
Facilitating the conservation of auditory system function; developing and implementing
environmental and occupational hearing conservation programs;
(h) Selecting, fitting, and dispensing of hearing aids,
assistive listening and alerting devices and other systems (e.g. implantable devices) and
providing training in their use;
(i)
Providing Audiological (re)habilitation and related counseling services to hearing
impaired individuals, their families, and other professionals;
(j) Providing related counseling services to
individuals with any type of hearing related communication disorder and their family
members;
(k) Consulting with educators about
communication management of children with hearing impairment;
(l) Consulting and providing rehabilitative services to
persons with balance disorders;
(m)
Developing and managing academic and clinical programs in communication sciences and
disorders;
(n) Designing, implementing,
analyzing, and interpreting the results of research related to auditory and vestibular
systems;
(o) Screening of speech-language and
other factors affecting communication function for the purposes of an audiological
evaluation and/or initial identification of individuals with other communication
disorders.
(p) Measuring outcomes of
treatment and conducting continuous evaluation of the effectiveness of practices and
programs to improve and maintain quality of services.
Notes
Ala. Admin. Code r. 870-X-7-.03
New Rule: Filed October 18, 1994;
effective November 21, 1994. Amended: Filed August 29, 1997; effective October 3, 1997.
Repealed and New Rule: Filed September 24, 1999; effective October 29, 1999.
Amended by
Alabama
Administrative Monthly Volume XXXIII, Issue No. 11, August 31, 2015, eff.
9/21/2015.
Authors: Robin Auerbach, Denise P. Gibbs, Martha W.
Paxton, Lissa Van Doorn, Robert L. Rane, Richard Talbott
Statutory Authority:
Code of Ala.
1975, ยง
34-28A-42,
et
seq.
