Code of Maryland Regulations
Title 10 - MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Part 3
Subtitle 21 - MENTAL HYGIENE REGULATIONS
Chapter 10.21.08 - Services for Mentally Ill Hearing Impaired Patients in Facilities
Section 10.21.08.02 - Definitions
Universal Citation: MD Code Reg 10.21.08.02
Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 19, September 20, 2024
A. The following terms have the meanings indicated.
B. Terms Defined.
(1) "Administration" means the Mental Hygiene
Administration.
(2) "Audiologist"
means an individual who is authorized to practice audiology under Health
Occupations Article, Title 2, Annotated Code of Maryland.
(3) "Certified interpreter for hearing
impaired persons" means an interpreter who possesses at the minimum a
Comprehensive Skills Certificate issued by the Registry of Interpreters for the
Deaf.
(4) "Documented history of
deafness or hearing impairment" means a documented diagnosis of hearing
impairment made by an audiologist or by a Board-eligible or Board-certified
otolaryngologist.
(5) "Facility"
means an inpatient or residential treatment program operated directly by the
Administration.
(6) "Gross testing"
means either an interactive process which screens a person's ability to follow
ordinary conversation or pure tone audiometric screening.
(7) "Hearing aid" means any instrument or
device designed for or represented as aiding, improving, or correcting hearing
and any parts, attachments, or accessories of this instrument or
device.
(8) "Hearing impaired
individual" means a person with an impairment so severe that with or without
amplification, the processing of linguistic information through hearing is
impaired.
(9) "Individual treatment
plan" means the plan of care identified for each patient as outlined in COMAR
10.21.03.
(10) "Mental illness"
means an illness resulting from a psychiatric disorder and does not include a
primary diagnosis of alcohol or drug abuse or developmental
disability.
(11) "Otolaryngologist"
means a physician identified by the State Board of Physician Quality Assurance
as a specialist in otolaryngology as set forth in Health Occupations Article,
§14-704, Annotated Code of Maryland.
(12) "Physician" means an individual who is
authorized to practice medicine under Health Occupations Article, Title 14,
Annotated Code of Maryland.
(13)
"Pure tone audiometric screening" means the pure tone air conduction screening
procedure used to rapidly and effectively identify a patient with a hearing
impairment that interferes with or has the potential for interfering with
communication.
(14) "Qualified
allied health professional" means the staff assigned by the facility and
trained by an audiologist in procedures outlined in this chapter.
(15) "Rinne and Weber testing" means the
tuning fork test used to differentiate between conductive and sensory-neural
hearing losses.
(16)
"Speech-language pathologist" means an individual who is authorized to practice
speech-language pathology under Health Occupations Article, Title 19, Annotated
Code of Maryland.
(17) "Speech
reading" means the use of visual cues in determining what the speaker is saying
and may also be referred to as lip reading.
(18) "Unit" means the inpatient unit of the
institution designated by the Administration created specifically to treat
those patients having both a mental illness and a hearing impairment.
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