(225 ILCS 110/3) (from Ch. 111, par. 7903)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)
Sec. 3. Definitions. The following words and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this Section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(a) "Department" means the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
(b) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation.
(c) "Board" means the Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology established under Section 5 of this Act.
(d) "Speech-Language Pathologist" means a person who has received a license pursuant to this Act and who engages in the practice of speech-language pathology.
(e) "Audiologist" means a person who has received a license pursuant to this Act and who engages in the practice of audiology.
(f) "Public member" means a person who is not a health professional. For purposes of board membership, any person with a significant financial interest in a health service or profession is not a public member.
(g) "The practice of audiology" is the application of nonmedical methods and procedures for the identification, measurement, testing, appraisal, prediction, habilitation, rehabilitation, or instruction related to hearing and disorders of hearing. These procedures are for the purpose of counseling, consulting and rendering or offering to render services or for participating in the planning, directing or conducting of programs that are designed to modify communicative disorders involving speech, language or auditory function related to hearing loss. The practice of audiology may include, but shall not be limited to, the following:
(1) any task, procedure, act, or practice that is
necessary for the evaluation of hearing or vestibular function;
(2) training in the use of amplification devices;
(3) the fitting, dispensing, or servicing of hearing
instruments; and
(4) performing basic speech and language screening
tests and procedures consistent with audiology training.
(h) "The practice of speech-language pathology" is the application of nonmedical methods and procedures for the identification, measurement, testing, appraisal, prediction, habilitation, rehabilitation, and modification related to communication development, and disorders or disabilities of speech, language, voice, swallowing, and other speech, language and voice related disorders. These procedures are for the purpose of counseling, consulting and rendering or offering to render services, or for participating in the planning, directing or conducting of programs that are designed to modify communicative disorders and conditions in individuals or groups of individuals involving speech, language, voice and swallowing function.
"The practice of speech-language pathology" shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following:
(1) hearing screening tests and aural rehabilitation
procedures consistent with speech-language pathology training;
(2) tasks, procedures, acts or practices that are
necessary for the evaluation of, and training in the use of, augmentative communication systems, communication variation, cognitive rehabilitation, non-spoken language production and comprehension; and
(3) the use of rigid or flexible laryngoscopes for
the sole purpose of observing and obtaining images of the pharynx and larynx in accordance with Section 9.3 of this Act.
(i) "Speech-language pathology assistant" means a person who has received a license pursuant to this Act to assist a speech-language pathologist in the manner provided in this Act.
(j) "Physician" means a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches under the Medical Practice Act of 1987.
(Source: P.A. 95-465, eff. 8-27-07; 96-719, eff. 8-25-09.)
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