North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 21 - OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
Chapter 64 - SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS
Section .0200 - INTERPRETATIVE RULES
Section 64 .0216 - STANDARD OF PRACTICE FOR SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS

Universal Citation: 21 NC Admin Code 64 .0216

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024

(a) The Board of Examiners for Speech and Language Pathologists and Audiologists interprets the words "reasonable degree of professional skill and care in the delivery of professional services" used in G.S. 90-301(5) to require the following actions to be performed prior to commencing treatment:

(1) Obtain a history of the patient's speech or language problem;

(2) Evaluate the patient;

(3) Identify the patient's problem and its possible causes;

(4) Establish the goals of the therapy treatment;

(5) Identify and select appropriate treatments;

(6) Make a disclosure to the patient or custodian if the treatment being recommended is known by the provider to be experimental;

(b) The Licensee shall periodically evaluate and document the patient's progress towards the treatment goals and recommend referal to other disciplines or recommend discontinuance of therapy where there has been no documented progress.

Authority G.S. 90-304(a)(3);
Eff. September 1, 2005;
Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. October 4, 2016.

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