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Virginia Speech Therapy Definitions

Active Practice - A minimum of 160 hours of professional practice as an audiologist or speech-language pathologist for each 12-month period immediately preceding application for licensure. Active practice may include supervisory, administrative, educational, research, or consultative activities or responsibilities for the delivery of such services.

ASHA - The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Board - The Virginia Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology.

Client - A patient or person receiving services in audiology or speech-language pathology.

Contact Hour - Sixty (60) minutes of time spent in continuing learning activities.

Practice of Speech-Language Pathology - The practice of facilitating development and maintenance of human communication through programs of screening, identifying, assessing and interpreting, diagnosing, habilitating and rehabilitating speech-language disorders, including but not limited to:

    • Providing alternative communication systems and instruction and training in the use thereof;
    • Providing aural habilitation, rehabilitation and counseling services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families;
    • Enhancing speech-language proficiency and communication effectiveness; and
    • Providing audiologic screening. Any person offering services to the public under any descriptive name or title which would indicate that professional speech-language pathology services are being offered shall be deemed to be practicing speech-language pathology.

School Speech-Language Pathologist - A person licensed pursuant to § 54.1-2603 of the Code of Virginia to provide speech-language pathology services solely in public school divisions.

Speech-Language Disorders - Disorders in fluency, speech articulation, voice, receptive and expressive language (syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics), swallowing disorders, and cognitive communication functioning. "Speech-language pathologist" means any person who engages in the practice of speech language pathology.

Supervision - That the audiologist or speech-language pathologist is responsible for the entire service being rendered or activity being performed, is available for consultation, and is providing regular monitoring and documentation of clinical activities and competencies of the person being supervised.

Reference

Va. Code Ann. § 54.1-2600

18 VAC 30-21-10

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