California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 2 — Healing Arts, Chapter 5.3 — Speech-Language Pathologists, Audiologists, and Hearing Aid Dispensers, Article 1 — General Provisions, Section 2530.3
(a) A person represents themselves to be a speech-language pathologist when they hold themselves out to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the words “speech pathologist,” “speech pathology,” “speech therapy,” “speech correction,” “speech correctionist,” “speech therapist,” “speech clinic,” “speech clinician,” “language pathologist,” “language pathology,” “logopedics,” “logopedist,” “communicology,” “communicologist,” “aphasiologist,” “voice therapy,” “voice therapist,” “voice pathology,” or “voice pathologist,” “language therapist,” or “phoniatrist,” or any similar titles; or when they purport to treat stuttering, stammering, or other disorders of speech.
(b) A person represents themselves to be an audiologist when they hold themselves out to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the terms “audiology,” “audiologist,” “audiological,” “hearing clinic,” “hearing clinician,” “hearing therapist,” or any similar titles.
Notes
Defines when a person represents themselves as a speech-language pathologist or audiologist based on specified public titles or service descriptions. For speech-language pathology, the definition also includes purporting to treat stuttering, stammering, or other speech disorders; for audiology, it includes listed audiology and hearing-clinic or clinician terminology and similar titles.
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