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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and
5Audiology Practice Act is amended by changing Sections 3.5,
68.5, and 8.6 as follows:
 
7    (225 ILCS 110/3.5)
8    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
9    Sec. 3.5. Exemptions. This Act does not prohibit:
10        (a) The practice of speech-language pathology or
11    audiology by students in their course of study in programs
12    approved by the Department, or the performance of
13    speech-language pathology assistant services by graduates
14    who have obtained degrees as set forth in paragraph (2) of
15    Section 8.5 of the Act, when acting under the direction
16    and supervision of licensed speech-language pathologists
17    or audiologists.
18        (b) The performance of any speech-language pathology
19    service by a speech-language pathology assistant or
20    candidate for licensure as a speech-language pathology
21    assistant, if such service is performed under the
22    supervision and full responsibility of a licensed
23    speech-language pathologist. A speech language pathology

 

 

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1    assistant or candidate for speech-language pathology
2    assistant licensure may perform only those duties
3    authorized by Section 8.7 under the supervision of a
4    speech-language pathologist as provided in Section 8.8.
5        (b-5) The performance of an audiology service by an
6    appropriately trained person if that service is performed
7    under the supervision and full responsibility of a
8    licensed audiologist.
9        (c) The performance of audiometric testing for the
10    purpose of industrial hearing conservation by an
11    audiometric technician certified by the Council of
12    Accreditation for Occupational Hearing Conservation
13    (CAOHC).
14        (d) The performance of an audiometric screening by an
15    audiometric screenings technician certified by the
16    Department of Public Health.
17        (e) The selling or practice of fitting, dispensing, or
18    servicing hearing instruments by a hearing instrument
19    dispenser licensed under the Hearing Instrument Consumer
20    Protection Act.
21        (f) A person licensed in this State under any other
22    Act from engaging in the practice for which he or she is
23    licensed.
24        (g) The performance of vestibular function testing by
25    an appropriately trained person under the supervision of a
26    physician licensed to practice medicine in all its

 

 

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1    branches.
2        (h) The performance of neurophysiologic intraoperative
3    monitoring of the seventh and eighth cranial nerve by an
4    individual certified by the American Board of Registration
5    of Electroencephalographic and Evoked Potential
6    Technologists as Certified in Neurophysiologic
7    Intraoperative Monitoring only if authorized and
8    supervised by the physician performing the surgical
9    procedure.
10(Source: P.A. 100-530, eff. 1-1-18.)
 
11    (225 ILCS 110/8.5)
12    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
13    Sec. 8.5. Qualifications for licenses as a speech-language
14pathology assistant. A person is qualified to be licensed as a
15speech-language pathology assistant if that person has applied
16in writing or electronically on forms prescribed by the
17Department, has paid the required fees, and meets both of the
18following criteria:
19        (1) Is of good moral character. In determining moral
20    character, the Department may take into consideration any
21    felony conviction or plea of guilty or nolo contendere of
22    the applicant, but such a conviction or plea shall not
23    operate automatically as a complete bar to licensure.
24        (2) Has received either (i) an associate degree from a
25    speech-language pathology assistant program that has been

 

 

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1    approved by the Department and that meets the minimum
2    requirements set forth in Section 8.6, (ii) a bachelor's
3    degree and has completed course work from an accredited
4    college or university that meets the minimum requirements
5    set forth in Section 8.6, or (iii) a bachelor's degree in
6    speech-language pathology or communication sciences and
7    disorders from a regionally or nationally accredited
8    institution approved by the Department that meets the
9    minimum requirements set forth in paragraph (2) of
10    subsection (a) in Section 8.6, and evidence of completion
11    of at least 100 hours of documented field work supervised
12    by a licensed speech-language pathologist that is
13    comparable to field work that completed in a
14    speech-language pathology assistant program in this State,
15    and completion of requirements for certification as a
16    speech-language pathology assistant or completion of an
17    equivalent program as determined by the Department by
18    rule.
19(Source: P.A. 103-302, eff. 1-1-24.)
 
20    (225 ILCS 110/8.6)
21    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
22    Sec. 8.6. Minimum requirements for speech-language
23pathology assistant programs.
24    (a) An applicant for licensure as a speech-language
25pathology assistant must have earned 60 semester credit hours

 

 

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1in a program of study that includes general education and the
2specific knowledge and skills for a speech-language pathology
3assistant. The curriculum of a speech-language pathology
4assistant program must include all of the following content,
5as further provided by rule promulgated by the Department:
6        (1) Twenty-four semester credit hours in general
7    education.
8        (2) Thirty-six semester credit hours in technical
9    content areas designed to provide students with knowledge
10    and skills required for speech-language pathology
11    assistants, which must include (i) an introductory or
12    overview course in of normal processes of communication
13    disorders; (ii) phonetics an overview of communication
14    disorders; (iii) speech sound disorders instruction in
15    speech-language pathology assistant-level service
16    delivery practices; (iv) language development instruction
17    in workplace behaviors; (v) language disorders cultural
18    and linguistic factors in communication; and (vi) anatomy
19    and physiology of speech and hearing mechanisms
20    observation.
21        (3) Completion of at least 100 hours of supervised
22    field work experiences supervised by a licensed
23    speech-language pathologist at least 50% of the time when
24    the student is engaged in contact with the patient or
25    client. An applicant must obtain written verification
26    demonstrating successful completion of the required field

 

 

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1    work experience, including a description of the setting in
2    which the training was received and an assessment of the
3    student's technical proficiency.
4    (b) The Department may promulgate rules that change the
5curriculum requirements of subsection (a) in order to reflect
6the guidelines for speech-language pathology assistant
7programs recommended by the American Speech-Language Hearing
8Association.
9    (c) Any applicant for licensure as a speech-language
10pathology assistant who applies to the Department prior to the
11effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
12Assembly or any person who holds a valid license as a
13speech-language pathology assistant on the effective date of
14this amendatory Act shall not be required to meet the new
15minimum requirements for a speech language pathology assistant
16program under subsection (a) of this Section 8.6 that are
17established by this amendatory Act.
18(Source: P.A. 96-1315, eff. 7-27-10.)
 
19    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
201, 2025.