Scope of Practice

The practice of audiology includes:

(a)identifying, including screening, assessing, interpreting, diagnosing, counseling, preventing, and rehabilitating peripheral and central auditory system dysfunctions;

(b)providing and interpreting behavior and (electro) physiological measurements of auditory and vestibular functions;

(c)tests for vestibular functions, including the electronystagmography

(ENG)test battery consisting of the gaze, optokinetic, positional, Hallpike and bithermal caloric test;

(d)selecting, fitting, dispensing, and selling of hearing aids, assistive listening and amplification devices, including alerting devices and other systems (e.g. implantable devices), taking earmold impressions, providing earmolds, and providing training in the use of hearing aids and amplification devices;

(e)providing aural rehabilitation and related counseling services to hearing impaired individuals and their families;

(f)removal of cerumen only for the purpose of providing auditory, vestibular functions measurements and for taking earmold impressions;

(g)screening of speech-language and other factors affecting communication function for the purposes of audiologic evaluation or initial identification of individuals with other communication disorders;

(h)facilitating the conservation of auditory system function; and

(i)developing and implementing environmental and occupational hearing conservation programs. ----------