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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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OCCUPATIONS CODE |
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Title 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS |
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Subtitle G. PROFESSIONS RELATED TO HEARING, SPEECH, AND DYSLEXIA |
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Chapter 401. SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS |
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Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
Sec. 401.001. DEFINITIONS
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In this chapter:
(1) "Audiologist" means a person who meets the qualifications of this chapter to practice audiology.
(2) "Audiology" means the application of nonmedical principles, methods, and procedures for measurement, testing, appraisal, prediction, consultation, counseling, habilitation, rehabilitation, or instruction related to disorders of the auditory or vestibular systems for the purpose of providing or offering to provide services modifying communicative disorders involving speech, language, or auditory or vestibular function or other aberrant behavior relating to hearing loss.
(3) "Board" means the State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology.
(4) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.
(4-a) "Hearing instrument" has the meaning assigned by Section 402.001.
(5) "Speech-language pathologist" means a person who meets the qualifications of this chapter to practice speech-language pathology.
(6) "Speech-language pathology" means the application of nonmedical principles, methods, and procedures for measurement, testing, evaluation, prediction, counseling, habilitation, rehabilitation, or instruction related to the development and disorders of communication, including speech, voice, language, oral pharyngeal function, or cognitive processes, for the purpose of evaluating, preventing, or modifying or offering to evaluate, prevent, or modify those disorders and conditions in an individual or a group.