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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="2-402.2" title_number="2" title_name="Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech–language Pathologists, and Music Therapists" subtitle_number="4">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to subsection (d) of this section, unless authorized to practice speech–language pathology under this title or unless otherwise provided for under this article, a person may not represent to the public by title, by description of services, methods, or procedures, or otherwise that the person:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is authorized to practice speech–language pathology in this State; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Evaluates, examines, instructs, or counsels individuals suffering from disorders or conditions that affect speech, language, communication, and swallowing.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Subject to subsection (d) of this section, unless authorized to practice speech–language pathology under this title or unless otherwise provided for under this article, a person may not use any word or term connoting professional proficiency in speech–language pathology, including but not limited to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Communication disorders”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Communicologist”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Dysphagist”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Language pathologist”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Logopedist”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>“Speech and language clinician”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>“Speech and language therapist”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>“Speech clinic”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>“Speech clinician”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>“Speech correction”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>“Speech correctionist”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>“Speech pathology”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="13">
      <text>“Speech–language pathology”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="14">
      <text>“Speech therapist”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="15">
      <text>“Speech therapy”; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="16">
      <text>“Swallowing therapist”.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>While performing the duties of that employment, an individual employed by any agency of the federal government may use any of the titles listed in subsection (b) of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, an individual licensed under Subtitle 4A of this title to engage in the practice of music therapy may not represent to the public that the individual is authorized to treat a communication disorder.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This section may not be construed to prohibit an individual licensed under Subtitle 4A of this title to engage in the practice of music therapy from representing to the public that the individual may work with a client who has a communication disorder and address communication skills.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
