California Code of Regulations
Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations
Division 13.4 - Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board of the Department of Consumer Affairs
Article 5 - Speech-Language Pathology or Audiology Aides
Section 1399.154.2 - Responsibilities of Aide's Supervisor

(a) Have legal responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of the patients.

(b) Have legal responsibility for the acts and services provided by the speech-language pathology or audiology aide, including compliance with the provisions of the Act and these regulations.

(c) Be physically present while the speech-language pathology or audiology aide is assisting with patients, unless an alternative plan of supervision has been approved by the Board. A supervisor of industrial audiology aides shall include a proposed plan for alternative supervision with the application form. An industrial audiology aide may only be authorized to conduct puretone air conduction threshold audiograms when performing outside the physical presence of a supervisor. The supervisor shall review the patient histories and the audiograms and make necessary referrals for evaluation and treatment.

(d) Evaluate, treat, manage and determine the future dispositions of patients.

(e) Appropriately train the speech-language pathology or audiology aide to perform duties to effectively assist in evaluation and/or treatment. A supervisor shall establish and complete a training program for a speech-language pathology or audiology aide in accordance with Section 1399.154.4 which is unique to the duties of the aide and the setting in which he or she will be assisting the supervisor.

(f) Define the services which may be provided by the speech-language pathology or audiology aide. Those services shall not exceed the competency of the aide as determined by his or her education, training and experience, and shall not include any treatment beyond the plan established by the supervisor for the patient.