or any similar variation of these terms or any ‘hearing therapist’, derivative term or uses terms such as ‘hearing’, ‘auditory’, or in combination with words such as ‘acoustic’, ‘aural’, ‘listening’ ‘communicologist’, ‘correctionist’, ‘specialist’, ‘pathologist’, or ‘therapist’, ‘conservationist’, ‘center’, ‘clinic’, ‘consultant’, to describe a function or service he performs. ‘otometrist’ (3) or means screening, ‘Audiology’ ‘audiology service’ identifying, assessing, diagnosing, habilitating, and rehabilitating individuals with peripheral and central auditory and vestibular disorders; preventing hearing loss; researching normal and disordered auditory and vestibular functions; administering and interpreting behavioral and physiological measures of the peripheral and central auditory and vestibular systems; selecting, fitting, programming, and dispensing all types of amplification and assistive listening devices including hearing aids, and providing training in their use; providing aural habilitation, rehabilitation, and counseling to hearing impaired individuals and their families; designing, implementing, and coordinating industrial and community hearing conservation programs; training and supervising individuals not licensed in accordance with this chapter who perform air conduction threshold testing in the industrial setting; designing and coordinating infant hearing screening and supervising individuals not licensed in accordance with this chapter who perform infant hearing screenings; performing speech or language screening, limited to a passfail determination; screening of other skills for the purpose of audiological evaluation; and identifying individuals with other communication disorders. (4) of means the rendering of or the ‘The practice audiology’ offering to render any audiology service to an individual, group, organization, or the public. (5) means the South Carolina State Board of ‘Board’ Examiners in SpeechLanguage Pathology and Audiology. (65) means the Director of the Department of Labor, ‘Director’ Licensing and Regulation. (6) means an individual who has met the requirements ‘Intern’ for licensure as a speechlanguage pathology or audiology intern under this chapter and has been issued this license by the board. (7) means an authorization to practice ‘License’ speechlanguage pathology or audiology issued by the board pursuant to this chapter and includes an authorization to practice as a speechlanguage pathology intern, an audiology intern, and a speechlanguage pathology assistant.
‘hearing therapist’, or any similar variation of these terms or any derivative term or uses terms such as ‘hearing’, ‘auditory’, ‘acoustic’, ‘aural’, or ‘listening’ in combination with words such as ‘communicologist’, ‘correctionist’, ‘specialist’, ‘pathologist’, ‘therapist’, ‘conservationist’, ‘center’, ‘clinic’, ‘consultant’, or ‘otometrist’ to describe a function or service he performs. (3) ‘Audiology’ or ‘audiology service’ means screening, identifying, assessing, diagnosing, habilitating, and rehabilitating individuals with peripheral and central auditory and vestibular disorders; preventing hearing loss; researching normal and disordered auditory and vestibular functions; administering and interpreting behavioral and physiological measures of the peripheral and central auditory and vestibular systems; selecting, fitting, programming, and dispensing all types of amplification and assistive listening devices including hearing aids, and providing training in their use; providing aural habilitation, rehabilitation, and counseling to hearing impaired individuals and their families; designing, implementing, and coordinating industrial and community hearing conservation programs; training and supervising individuals not licensed in accordance with this chapter who perform air conduction threshold testing in the industrial setting; designing and coordinating infant hearing screening and supervising individuals not licensed in accordance with this chapter who perform infant hearing screenings; performing speech or language screening, limited to a passfail determination; screening of other skills for the purpose of audiological evaluation; and identifying individuals with other communication disorders. (4) ‘The practice of audiology’ means the rendering of or the offering to render any audiology service to an individual, group, organization, or the public. (5) ‘Board’ means the South Carolina State Board of Examiners in SpeechLanguage Pathology and Audiology. (65) ‘Director’ means the Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. (6) ‘Intern’ means an individual who has met the requirements for licensure as a speechlanguage pathology or audiology intern under this chapter and has been issued this license by the board. (7) ‘License’ means an authorization to practice speechlanguage pathology or audiology issued by the board pursuant to this chapter and includes an authorization to practice as a speechlanguage pathology intern, an audiology intern, and a speechlanguage pathology assistant.
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