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Pennsylvania Speech Therapy Definitions

ASHA - The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Act - The Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists Licensure Act (63 P.S. § § 1701—1719).

Biennial Renewal Period - The period from August 1 of an even-numbered year to July 31 of the next even-numbered year.

Board - The Pennsylvania Board of Examiners in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology.

Business Entity - A lawful form of organization, including a corporation, partnership, trust, association, company or other similar form of organization.

Clock Hour - Consists of fifty (50) to sixty (60) minutes of instruction or participation in an approved continuing education course or program.

Continuing Education Record - Report provided to a participant in a continuing education course or program by the provider which conforms to § 45.506(b) (relating to provider responsibilities).

Direct Supervision - The personal, on-premises observation of activities performed by personnel working under the licensee or qualified training supervisor.

Inactive License - A license status in which the licensee notifies the Board that the licensee no longer requires an active license to practice.

Lapsed License - A license status in which the license has not been currently renewed.

Licensees -  SLPs and audiologists.

Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring - The process of continual testing and interpreting of results by the use of electrodiagnostic modalities to identify and monitor the functional integrity of neurological structures to reduce the risk of injury and complications related to the nervous system during a surgical procedure.

Person - Any individual, organization, association, partnership, company, trust or corporate body, except that only individuals can be licensed under this act. Any reference in this act to a licensed person shall mean a natural individual person.

Practice of Speech-Language Pathology - The application of principles, methods and procedures of prevention, screening, consultation, identification, assessment and evaluation, determination of disorders and service delivery model, nonmedical treatment and intervention, counseling, collaboration and referral services for persons with known or suspected language, cognitive and linguistic, social, speech (resonance and voice, fluency and sound production), feeding and swallowing, orofacial myofunctional disorders or communication disorders.

Provider - An agency, organization, institution, college, university, professional society, association or center approved by the Board to offer an organized continuing education course or program.

Speech-Language Pathologist - Any person who is qualified by education, training and clinical experience and is licensed under this act to engage in the practice of speech-language pathology and is an independent practitioner providing services in hospitals, clinics, public school entities, nonpublic schools, private practices and other settings in which speech-language pathology services are relevant.

Reference

63 P.S. § 1701

49 Pa. Code §45.2

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