{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-30-32-14","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 30-32-14","heading":"Scope of practice for audiology.","body":"(a) The scope of practice for audiology includes:\n(1) Facilitating the conservation of Auditory system function, developing and implementing environmental and occupational hearing conservation programs;\n(2) Screening, identifying, assessing and interpreting, preventing and rehabilitating peripheral and central Auditory system disorders;\n(3) Providing and interpreting behavioral and electro- physiological measurements of Auditory and vestibular functions;\n(4) Selecting, fitting, programming and dispensing of amplification, assistive listening and alerting devices and programming and other systems (e.g., implantative devices) and providing training in their use;\n(5) Providing audiologic and aural rehabilitation and related counseling services to individuals with hearing impairments and their families;\n(6) Providing vestibular rehabilitation;\n(7) Cerumen removal; and\n(8) Screening of speech-language and other factors affecting communication disorders: Provided, That judgments and descriptive statements about the results of the screenings are limited to pass/fail determinations.\n(b) A person licensed under this article as an audiologist is not required to obtain a license under the provisions of article twenty-six of this chapter.","path":["CHAPTER 30. PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS.","ARTICLE 32. SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/30-32-14/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:27:28Z","sha256":"d2342b92198f36c01e575886660735b36d1636d2becc9fb0c90d663969df89cd","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-30-32-13","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-30-32-15"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}