(1)  Licensing shall be granted independently either in speech-language pathology or audiology. A person shall be licensed in one or both areas when the person meets the respective qualifications.

Terms Used In Utah Code 58-41-3

  • Audiologist: means a person who practices audiology or who holds himself out to the public directly or indirectly by any means, act, title, identification, performance, method, or procedure as one who nonmedically examines, measures, tests, interprets, evaluates, assesses, diagnoses, directs, instructs, treats, counsels, prescribes, and recommends for persons affected by or suspected of having disorders of or conditions of hearing loss, or assists persons in achieving the reception, communication, and perception of sound and determines the range, nature, and degree of hearing function related to communication needs, or provides audiology services and uses audio electronic equipment and provides audiology services and consultation regarding noise control and hearing conservation, conducts tests and interpretation of vestibular function and nystagmus, prepares ear impressions and provides ear molds, aids, accessories, prescriptions, and prostheses for hearing, evaluates sound environment and equipment, and calibrates instruments used in testing and supplementing auditory function. See Utah Code 58-41-2
  • Audiology: means the application of principles, methods, and procedures, and measuring, testing, examining, interpreting, diagnosing, predicting, evaluating, prescribing, consulting, treating, instructing, and researching, which is related to hearing, vestibular function, and the disorders of hearing, to related language and speech disorders and to aberrant behavior related to hearing loss or vestibular function, for the purpose of preventing and modifying disorders related to hearing loss or vestibular function, and planning, directing, managing, conducting, and participating in hearing conservation, evoked potentials evaluation, nonmedical tinnitus evaluation or treatment, noise control, habilitation, and rehabilitation programs, including hearing aid evaluation, assistive listening device evaluation, prescription, preparation, and dispensing, and auditory training and lip reading. See Utah Code 58-41-2
  • Person: means any individual, group, organization, partnership, or corporate body, except that only an individual may be licensed under this chapter. See Utah Code 58-41-2
  • Speech-language pathologist: means :
(a) a person who practices speech-language pathology or who holds himself out to the public by any means, or by any service or function the person performs, directly or indirectly, or by using the terms "speech-language pathologist" "speech-language therapist" "language disability specialist" or any variation, derivation, synonym, coinage, or whatever expresses, employs, or implies these terms, names, or functions; or
(b) a person who performs any of the functions described in Subsection (19) or any related functions. See Utah Code 58-41-2
  • Speech-language pathology: means the application of principles, methods, and procedures for the examination, measurement, prevention, testing, identification, evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, instruction, modification, prescription, restoration, counseling, habilitation, prediction, management, and research related to the development and the disorders or disabilities of human communication, speech, voice, language, cognitive communication, or oral, pharyngeal, or laryngeal sensorimotor competencies, for the purpose of identifying, evaluating, diagnosing, prescribing, preventing, managing, correcting, ameliorating, or modifying those disorders and their effects in individuals or groups of individuals. See Utah Code 58-41-2
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
    • (2)  Except as provided in Section 58-41-4, no person may practice, represent themselves to be, consult, or perform as a speech-language pathologist or audiologist in this state unless the person is licensed in accordance with:

    (a)  this chapter; or

    (b)  Chapter 41a, Audiology and Speech-language Pathology Interstate Compact.

    Amended by Chapter 424, 2020 General Session

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