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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="2-402.3" title_number="2" title_name="Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech–language Pathologists, and Music Therapists" subtitle_number="4">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Unless authorized to practice as a speech–language pathology assistant under this title or unless otherwise provided for under this article, a person may not represent to the public, by title, description of services, methods, or procedures, or otherwise, that the person:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is authorized to practice as a speech–language pathology assistant in the State; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Assists in the practice of speech–language pathology.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Unless authorized to practice as a speech–language pathology assistant under this title or unless otherwise provided for under this article, a person may not use any word or term connoting professional proficiency  in assisting the practice of speech–language pathology, including:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Communication assistant”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Speech assistant”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Speech–language assistant”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Speech–language teacher”; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Speech teacher”.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
