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Alabama Speech Therapy Legal Definitions

These definitions have been modified for clarity.  

Association

The Speech and Hearing Association of Alabama.

Board

The Alabama State Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (ABESPA).

Person

Any individual, organization, or corporate body. Only an individual may be licensed under the law.

Clinical Fellowship (CF)

Required practical experience following successful completion of a master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology at an accredited university or equivalent as determined by the Board.

Good Moral Character

A person shall be deemed to be of good moral character provided that said individual has not pleaded guilty to or been convicted of any felony, any violation of corruption of a minor, any offense of violence, theft offense, or drug abuse offense that is not a minor misdemeanor, or any substantively comparable ordinance of a municipal corporation or of another state.

Gross Negligence

A SLP commits gross negligence, when his/her actions reveal a disregard for the services needed for proper treatment of the patient. This shall include, but is not limited to, the failure to properly diagnose the patient’s condition and failure to properly administer and interpret administered tests based upon current and established procedures of the profession. Evidence of gross negligence can be direct or circumstantial.

License

Any license issued by the Board to practice speech-1anguage pathology.

Licensee

A person holding a license to practice audiology or speech language pathology issued pursuant to the law, but not including the participants of a clinical fellowship.

Patient Site

The patient’s physical location at the time of receipt of the telepractice services.

Person

Any individual, group, association, limited or general partnership, corporation, or any other business entity.

Preceptor/Supervisor

Any person who is licensed and has the responsibility of supervising or overseeing the training or activities of assistants, students, externs, participants of CF and others providing speech language pathology services without full licenses.

Provider

Licensed SLP who provides telepractice services.

Provider Site

The licensee’s physical location at the time of the provision of telepractice services.

Speech-Language Pathologist

Any person who examines, evaluates, remediates, uses preventive measures, or counsels persons suffering or suspected of suffering from disorders or conditions affecting speech or language. A person is deemed to be a speech-language pathologist when he or she practices speech pathology and/or if he or she offers those services to the public under any title incorporating the words “speech pathology,” “speech pathologist,” “speech-language pathology,” “speech-language pathologist,” “speech correction,” “speech correctionist,” “speech therapy,” “speech therapist,” “speech clinic,” “speech clinician,” “voice therapist,” “language therapist,” “aphasia therapist,” “communication disorders specialist,” “communication therapist,” or any similar title or description of service.

Speech Pathology or Speech-Language Pathology

The application of principles, methods and procedures related to the development, disorders and effectiveness of human communication and related functions including but not limited to providing prevention, screening, consultation, assessment and diagnosis, treatment, intervention, management, counseling and follow-up services for disorders of speech (i.e. articulation, fluency, resonance and voice), language (i.e., phonology, morphology, syntax, pre-1iteracy and language-based literacy skills), swallowing or other upper aerodigestive functions; and cognitive aspects of communication (i.e. attention, memory, problem solving).

Speech-Language Pathology Assistant

Those persons meeting the minimum qualifications that may be established by the Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and who work directly under the supervision of a SLP. The qualifications for registration as an SLPA shall be less than those prescribed for a SLP

Telepractice

The use of telecommunications and information technologies for the exchange of encrypted patient data, obtained through real-time interaction, from patient site to provider site for the provision or speech and language pathology and audiology services to patients through hardwire or internet connection. Telepractice also includes the interpretation of patient information provided to the licensee via store and forward techniques.

Reference

Ala. Code § 34-28A-1

Ala. Admin. Code R. 870-X-1-.01


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