Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM
Title 471 - NEBRASKA MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM SERVICES
Chapter 23 - SPEECH PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY SERVICES
Section 471-23-002 - DEFINITIONS

002.01 AUDIOLOGIST. An individual who practices audiology and who presents their self to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the words audiologist hearing clinician, or hearing therapist or any similar title or description of services.

002.02 PRACTICE OF AUDIOLOGY. The application of evidence-based practice in clinical decision making for the prevention, assessment habilitation, rehabilitation, and maintenance of persons with hearing, auditory function, and vestibular function impairments and related impairments. Practice of audiology does not include the practice of medical diagnosis, medical treatment, or surgery. Practices do include:

002.03 PRACTICE OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY. The application of principles and methods associated with the development and disorders of human communication skills and with dysphagia and cognition services, in which principles and methods include screening, assessment, evaluation, treatment, prevention, consultation, and restorative modalities for speech, voice, language, language-based learning, hearing, swallowing, cognition, or other upper aero-digestive functions for the purpose of improving quality of life by reducing impairments of body functions and structures, activity limitations, participation restrictions, and environmental barriers. Practice of speech-language pathology does not include the practice of medical diagnosis, medical treatment, or surgery.

002.04 SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST. An individual who presents themself to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the words speech-language pathologist, speech therapist, speech clinician, and having completed all requirements of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association to practice speech-language pathology.