Bill 200 explained in plain English
Removing Barriers in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Act, 2018
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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Bill 200, the Removing Barriers in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Act, 2018, amends the existing Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Act, 1991, to modify and expand the scope of practice and authorized acts for audiologists and speech-language pathologists.
This bill amends the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Act, 1991. It redefines the scope of practice for audiologists and speech-language pathologists in Ontario. It also expands the specific acts these professionals can perform, such as communicating diagnoses and prescribing hearing aids for audiologists, and ordering specific tests, performing certain assessments, and managing tracheostomies for speech-language pathologists.
- Amends the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Act, 1991.
- Repeals and substitutes sections 3 and 4 of the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Act, 1991.
- Modifies the definition of the practice of audiology to include the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and prevention of auditory and vestibular disorders to promote and maintain audio-vestibular health.
- Modifies the definition of the practice of speech-language pathology to include the assessment, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of speech, language, communication, voice, and swallowing dysfunctions or disorders to develop, maintain, rehabilitate, or augment communication or swallowing functions.
- Specifies authorized acts for audiologists, including communicating diagnoses of auditory or vestibular disorders and prescribing hearing aids.
- Specifies authorized acts for speech-language pathologists, including communicating diagnoses of communicative or swallowing disorders, ordering videofluoroscopic swallowing exams, performing certain internal assessments in the nasal passages, and performing specific procedures related to artificial openings of the body for voice disorders and tracheostomies.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Audiologists registered with the College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists.
- Speech-language pathologists registered with the College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists.
- Individuals seeking audiology or speech-language pathology services.
- Members of the College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists are authorized to perform specific acts within their respective scopes of practice, subject to the terms, conditions, and limitations on their certificates of registration.
- This Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- The bill does not specify the exact terms, conditions, and limitations that may be imposed on certificates of registration for audiologists and speech-language pathologists.
- The bill refers to 'another prescribed form of energy' for videofluoroscopic swallowing exams, but this is not defined within the provided text.
This bill amends the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Act, 1991, by replacing sections that define the scope of practice and authorized acts for audiologists and speech-language pathologists. It expands and clarifies these definitions and authorized actions.
Source: Section 1
The existing definitions of the scope of practice for audiology and speech-language pathology, as well as the previously listed authorized acts for these professions, are removed and replaced with new definitions and lists of authorized acts.
Source: Section 1
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