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2-15-1739: The Board of Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists

• Is formed as part of the Department of Labor and Industry

• Consists of 5 members who:
  o Are appointed by the governor, with the consent of the senate
  o Have been residents of MT for at least 1 year
  o Have been engaged in rendering services to the public, teaching, or performing research in the field of speech-language pathology or audiology for at least 5 years

• Two members are SLPs

• Two members are Audiologists

• One member is a consumer of speech-language pathology or audiology services

• All appointments are for a 3 year term, with no person eligible to serve more than two full consecutive terms
  
  37-15-101. Purpose.
  The legislature declares it to be a policy of this state that in order to safeguard the public health, safety, and welfare and to protect the public from being misled by incompetent, unscrupulous, and unauthorized persons and to protect the public from unprofessional conduct by qualified speech-language pathologists and audiologists and to help ensure the availability of the highest possible quality speech-language pathology and audiology services to the people of this state with communicative disorders, it is necessary to provide regulatory authority over persons offering speech-language pathology or audiology services to the public.
  
  Click on the blue numbers below to be taken to a description of the applicable rule. To see the full Montana code from which these were taken, please click http://mt.gov/dli/bsd/license/bsd_boards/slp_board/licenses/slp/sp_license.asp
  
  24.222.301: DEFINITIONS: Audiology aides or assistants
  Aide or Assistant I
  Aide or Assistant II
  Aide or Assistant III
  Supervision
  
  24.222.401: FEES
  
  24.222.404: BOARD STANDARDS & POLICY: Making submissions or requests to the
  Board
  
  24.222.501: APPLICATIONS FOR LICENSE
  
  24.222.502: QUALIFICATIONS FOR LICENSURE
  
  24.222.503: QUALIFICATIONS FOR ACTIVE TEMPORARY LICENSE
  
  24.222.506: LICENSURE OF OUT-OF-STATE APPLICANTS
  
  24.222.507: TEMPORARY PRACTICE PERMITS
  
  24.222.510: EXAMINATIONS
  
  24.222.513: INACTIVE STATUS & CONVERSION TO ACTIVE STATUS
  
  24.222.514: LICENSE RENEWAL
  
  24.222.520: SLP – SCOPE OF PRACTICE
  
  24.222.525: AUD – SCOPE OF PRACTICE
  
  24.222.701: SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITY
  
  24.222.702: SCHEDULE OF SUPERVISION
  
  24.222.703: FUNCTIONS OF AIDES OR ASSISTANTS
  
  24.222.2101: CONTINUING EDUCATION POLICY
  
  24.222.2102: CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
  
  24.222.2103: CONTINUING EDUCATION DEFINITIONS
  
  24.222.2301: UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
  
  24.222.2401: COMPLAINT PROCEDURES