Arkansas Senate Bill 118 has been signed into law, updating the state’s audiology scope of practice statute. The law allows audiologists who are licensed to evaluate, diagnose, manage, and treat auditory and vestibular conditions; prescribe and order prescription hearing aids; perform cerumen removal and foreign body extraction; and order but not interpret imaging, blood tests, and cultures related to hearing and balance disorders.

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