New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 44C - AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Subchapter 7 - AUTHORIZED PRACTICE
Section 13:44C-7.2 - Scope of practice-speech-language pathology

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 13:44C-7.2

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024

(a) The practice of speech-language pathology includes, but is not restricted to, the following functions:

1. Providing screening, identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, intervention (that is, prevention, restoration, amelioration, compensation), consultation, counseling, and follow-up services for disorders of:
i. Speech which includes articulation, fluency, and voice (including respiration, phonation, and resonance);

ii. Language which includes disorders of receptive and expressive communication in oral, written, graphic, and manual modalities;

iii. Oropharyngeal and related functions (that is, dysphagia, orofacial myofunctional disorders);

iv. Cognitive aspects of communication which includes communication disability and other functional disabilities associated with cognitive impairment; and

v. Pragmatic aspects of communication;

2. Training and supporting family members and other communication partners of individuals with speech, voice, language, other communication, and swallowing disabilities;

3. Developing and establishing effective augmentative and alternative communication techniques and strategies, including selecting, prescribing, and dispensing of aids and devices and training individuals, their families, and other communication partners in their use;

4. Selecting, fitting, and establishing effective use of appropriate prosthetic/adaptive devices for speaking and swallowing (that is, tracheoesophageal valves, electrolarynges, speaking valves);

5. Providing aural rehabilitation and related counseling services to individuals with hearing loss and central auditory processing dysfunction and to their families;

6. Conducting pure-tone air conduction hearing screening and noninvasive screening tympanometry for the purpose of initial identification and/or referral of individuals with other communication disorders or possible middle ear pathology;

7. Enhancing speech and language proficiency and communication effectiveness, including, but not limited to, accent reduction, collaboration with teachers of English as a second language, and improvement of voice, performance, and singing; and

8. Consulting with educators as members of interdisciplinary team about communication management, educational implications of communication disorders, educational programming, and classroom accommodations for children with communication disorders.

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