§468E-3 Practice as speech pathologist or audiologist; title or description of services. (a) A person represents oneself to be a speech pathologist when the person:
(1) Holds oneself out to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the words "speech pathologist", "speech pathology", "speech therapy", "speech correction", "speech correctionist", "speech therapist", "speech clinic", "speech clinician", "language pathologist", "language pathology", "logopedics", "logopedist", "communicology", "communicologist", "asphasiologist", "voice therapy", "voice therapist", "voice pathology", or "voice pathologist", "language therapist", or "phoniatrist", or any similar titles;
(2) Purports to treat stuttering, stammering, or other disorders of speech;
(3) Is employed as a faculty member in speech pathology;
(4) Is employed as a speech pathologist by the State or any county agency.
(b) A person represents oneself to be an audiologist when the person:
(1) Holds oneself out to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the terms "audiology", "audiologist", "audiological", "hearing clinic", "hearing clinician", "hearing therapist", or any similar titles;
(2) Is employed as a faculty member in audiology;
(3) Is employed as an audiologist by the State or any county agency. [L 1974, c 48, pt of §1; am L 1981, c 242, §3; gen ch 1985]
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