Arizona Laws 36-1921. Persons not affected by chapter
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Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-1921
- Audiologist: means a person who engages in the practice of audiology and who meets the requirements prescribed in this chapter. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
- Audiology: means the nonmedical and nonsurgical application of principles, methods and procedures of measurement, testing, evaluation and prediction that are related to hearing, its disorders and related communication impairments for the purpose of nonmedical diagnosis, prevention, amelioration or modification of these disorders and conditions. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
- Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
- Hearing aid: means any wearable instrument or device designed for or represented as aiding or improving human hearing or as aiding, improving or compensating for defective human hearing, and any parts, attachments or accessories of the instrument or device, including ear molds, but excluding batteries and cords. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
- License: means a license issued by the director under this chapter and includes a temporary license. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Speech-language pathology: means the nonmedical and nonsurgical application of principles, methods and procedures of assessment, testing, evaluation and prediction related to speech and language and its disorders and related communication impairments for the nonmedical diagnosis, prevention, amelioration or modification of these disorders and conditions. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
- Temporary licensee: means a person who is licensed under this chapter for a specified period of time under the sponsorship of a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
1. Apply to a person while engaged in the practice of recommending hearing aids if such practice is part of the academic curriculum of an accredited institution of higher education or part of a program conducted by a public or charitable institution, or a nonprofit organization which is primarily supported by voluntary contributions unless they sell hearing aids.
2. Apply to any person engaging in the practice of measuring human hearing for the purpose of selection of hearing aids provided that the person or the organization that employs that person does not sell hearing aids or hearing aid accessories.
3. Prevent a health care professional who is licensed or certified under title 32 from acting within the scope of that person’s license or certificate.
4. Apply to a person who is credentialed by this state as a teacher of the deaf from acting within the scope of those credentials.
5. Apply to a student, intern or trainee pursuing a course of study in audiology or speech-language pathology in a nationally or regionally accredited institution of higher education or training institution if all of the following are true:
(a) The activities are part of a planned course of study at that institution.
(b) The person is designated by a title that clearly indicates the status appropriate to the person’s level of education.
(c) The person works under the supervision of a person who is licensed in this state as an audiologist or a speech-language pathologist.
(d) Before a person receives services from a student or a temporary licensee, the supervising licensee provides written notification of this fact to the patient.
6. Apply to any person certified by the department of health services for the school hearing screening program.