Scope of practice for audiology

(a) The scope of practice for audiology includes: (1) Facilitating the conservation of Auditory system function, developing and implementing environmental and occupational hearing conservation programs; (2) Screening, identifying, assessing and interpreting, preventing and rehabilitating peripheral and central Auditory system disorders; (3) Providing and interpreting behavioral and electro- physiological measurements of Auditory and vestibular functions; (4) Selecting, fitting, programming and dispensing of amplification, assistive listening and alerting devices and programming and other systems (e.g., implantative devices) and providing training in their use; (5) Providing audiologic and aural rehabilitation and related counseling services to individuals with hearing impairments and their families; (6) Providing vestibular rehabilitation; (7) Cerumen removal; and (8) Screening of speech-language and other factors affecting communication disorders: Provided, That judgments and descriptive statements about the results of the screenings are limited to pass/fail determinations. (b) A person licensed under this article as an audiologist is not required to obtain a license under the provisions of article twenty-six of this chapter.