Ohio Administrative Code
Title 4747 - Ohio Speech and Hearing Professionals Board
Chapter 4747-1 - General Provisions
Section 4747-1-11 - Renewal procedures
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 4747-1-11
Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) Responsibility for filing and paying renewals shall rest with the licensee or permit holder.
(B) With respect to trainee permits and their renewal:
(1) Responsibility for renewing the
trainee permit shall rest with the trainee and the trainee's supervisor or
employer. Application for renewal of a trainee permit must be made to the board
prior to the expiration date shown on the permit.
(2) There shall be a thirty-day period
immediately following the expiration date shown on the trainee permit in which
that permit may be renewed, which period applies to the time in which an
application for trainee permit renewal may be made once. It does not authorize
a trainee whose permit has expired to engage in any way in the fitting and sale
of hearing aids after the expiration date shown on his permit. If renewal is
not effected within this thirty-day period, the trainee
shall submit a renewal application and statement attesting that the trainee has
not engaged in the fitting and sale of hearing aids from the date of the
expiration of the trainee permit to the present, and the prescribed fee to the
board.
The board
shall not renew a trainee permit to an individual more than one
time.
(C) Continuing education hours
(1) A licensee
shall earn twenty hours of continuing education within the two-year licensure
period immediately preceding the licensee's renewal application. One
clock hour of continuing education is equal to
sixty minutes of continuing education. Only actual hours of education activity
shall be counted. Lunches, breaks and other interruptions of the education
program shall not count toward the required hours. For
a hearing aid fitter license, at least ten hours shall be specific to the
measurement and testing of human hearing, the making of impressions for
earmolds, or selecting and adapting of hearing aids. Continuing education
clock hours must be acquired in subjects related to hearing aid fitting or
audiology.
(2) At least two of the
twenty hours of continuing education shall relate to ethics.
(3) A licensee is not required to obtain
continuing education for the first renewal.
(4) Continuing education hours may not be
carried over from one licensure
period to the next.
(5) An individual who previously held an Ohio
hearing aid fitters license shall as part of an application for relicensure
submit documentation of completing the continuing education hours required, or
as approved by the board.
(6) Upon
fulfillment of all legal requirements for renewal, including the signed renewal
application form or via the Ohio eLicense system attesting to the completion of
required clock hours of continuing education, licensees shall receive renewal
of licensure.
(7) All licensees
shall complete the required clock hours of continuing education prior to the
thirty-first day of December of the renewal year.
(8) At the discretion of the board, the
continuing education requirements for an individual, may be reduced or waived,
under unusual circumstances such as military service commitment, medical
emergencies, natural disasters, or conditions outside the control of the
licensee.
(D) Continuing education programs
Continuing education may be earned in the following continuing education experiences:
(1) Academic
coursework in audiology, or related disciplines, taken at accredited colleges
or universities;
(2) Any activity
approved for continuing education in related disciplines by any licensure board
of the state of Ohio.
(3) Any
activity approved for continuing education by the international hearing
society; any continuing education activity offered by an American
speechlanguage-hearing association approved continuing education provider; or
the American academy of audiology.
(E) Continuing education credit for provision of health care services:
In accordance with division (B) of section 4745.04 of the Revised Code, up to one-third of the continuing education requirements may be completed by providing volunteer services to indigent and uninsured persons. To qualify under this rule, volunteer services shall:
(1) Be provided at a free clinic or other
non-profit organization that offers health care services based on eligibility
screenings identifying the client as an "indigent and uninsured person" as that
term is defined in division (A)(7) of section
2305.234 of the Revised
Code;
(2) Be documented in writing
in the form of a certificate or a written statement on letterhead from an
administrative official at the organization where services were rendered,
specifying at a minimum the license holder's name, license number, date(s) of
qualifying volunteer services, and number of hours of services.
(3) Not be credited for license holders in a
paid position at the organization at which the services are rendered;
(4) Be provided without receiving any
compensation or other form of remuneration;
(5) Be specific to the licensee's area of
license, such as specific to dealing in and/or fitting of hearing
aids;
(6) Be credited as one hour
of continuing education for each sixty minutes spent providing services as a
volunteer, not to exceed three hours of the total annual continuing education
requirement; and
(7) Not count
toward the requirements of paragraph (C)(1) of this rule to complete one hour
of continuing education in ethics or Ohio state law.
(F) Documentation of continuing education:
(1) The licensee shall sign and submit to the
board a form or via the Ohio eLicense system attesting to completion of
required hours of continuing education at the time of license renewal.
The licensee shall retain supporting documents for inspection by the board for four years after the date of renewal.
(2) Licensees to be audited shall
receive notification of audit from the board. The licensee being audited shall
submit to the board proof of completion of the required continuing education
hours.
(3) Failure to meet
continuing education requirements, or to comply with the audit, upon request of
the board, may result in suspension, revocation, denial of licensure or renewal
of licensure according to the provisions of Chapter 119. of the Revised
Code.
(G) Continuing education audit:
(1) The board may audit the
continuing education of any licensee.
(2) Licensee to be audited shall receive
notification of the audit from the board. The licensee being audited shall
submit to the board documentation of continuing education hours as defined by
paragraph (F) of this rule.
(3) The
board may disapprove continuing education hours and shall notify the licensee
of this action according to the provisions of Chapter 119. of the Revised
Code.
(4) The failure to comply
with an audit notification may, for purposes of disciplinary action pursuant to
section 4747.12 of the Revised Code, be
considered to be unprofessional conduct in the practice of hearing aid dealing
or hearing aid fitting and/or misrepresentation in obtaining or attempting to
obtain a license.
(5) The board may
disapprove continuing education hours for renewal, relicensure, audit, or
ethical practice and shall notify the applicant or licensee of this action
according to the provisions of Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
(6) Submission of a false statement or
documentation of continuing education shall result in reprimand, probation,
suspension, revocation, or refusal to issue or renew a license according to the
provisions of Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
(7) Failure to meet continuing education
requirements or failure to substantiate continuing education hours upon request
of the board shall result in reprimand, probation, suspension, revocation, or
refusal to issue or renew a license according to the provisions of Chapter 119.
of the Revised Code.
(8) If a
licensee submits the renewal form after the expiration date, the board shall
assess a late fee and may audit the licensee. If the licensee attested yes on
their renewal application to completing the continuing education requirements
and is subsequently determined that the required continuing education hours
were not completed prior to the renewal deadline, the licensee will be subject
to a late fee.
(H) Continuing education audit procedures:
(1) At
each renewal period, the board shall audit up to ten per cent of the renewal
applications.
(2) The board members
shall be audited for the required continuing education hours.
(3) The board shall send notification of
audit to licensees to be audited.
(4) The licensee being audited shall submit
to the board a report of the continuing education hours required for renewal
along with the appropriate documentation.
(I) Late renewal requirements:
A hearing aid dealer or fitter may apply for renewal of an expired license if the license has been expired within ninety days from the date the license initially expired.
(J) Expired license requirements:
(1) A hearing aid dealer may apply for
relicensure of an expired dealer's license by completing an application for
relicensure and paying the fee charged for an initial dealer's
application.
(2) A hearing aid
fitter may apply for relicensure of an expired fitter's license, without an
examination requirement, for two years or less by completing an application for
relicensure and paying the fee charged for an initial hearing aid fitter's
application. The board shall issue the hearing aid fitter's license if the
hearing aid fitter:
Submits documentation of completion of continuing education hours required for the two-year period immediately preceding the year of the application for relicensure.
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