154F.1 - DEFINITIONS.
154F.1 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Audiologist" means a person who engages in the practice
of audiology.
2. "Board" means the board of speech pathology and audiology
established pursuant to section 147.14, subsection 1, paragraph
"i".
3. The "practice of audiology" means the application of
principles, methods, and procedures for measurement, testing,
evaluation, prediction, consultation, counseling, instruction,
habilitation, rehabilitation, or remediation related to hearing and
disorders of hearing and associated communication disorders for the
purpose of nonmedically evaluating, identifying, preventing,
ameliorating, modifying, or remediating such disorders and conditions
in individuals or groups of individuals, including the determination
and use of appropriate amplification.
4. The "practice of speech pathology" means the application
of principles, methods, and procedures for the measurement, testing,
evaluation, prediction, consultation, counseling, instruction,
habilitation, rehabilitation, or remediation related to the
development and disorders of speech, fluency, voice, or language for
the purposes of nonmedically evaluating, preventing, ameliorating,
modifying, or remediating such disorders and conditions in
individuals or groups of individuals.
5. "Speech pathologist" means a person who engages in the
practice of speech pathology. Section History: Recent Form
2008 Acts, ch 1088, §71