By Nichole Kingham, Michael Page, and Angela Page
This article is a part of the March/April 2025, Volume 37, Number 2, Audiology Today issue.
Navigating Ethical and Legal Issues with Audiology Assistants
The evolving role of audiology assistants in audiology practice settings is well-documented in the literature by competent and experienced practitioners (Kasewurm, 2001; Nemes, 2001; Duran, 2002; Hamil and Andrews, 2016; Karzon et al, 2018). As early as 1997, the American Academy of Audiology (1997;2021) and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (2022) published position statements and guidelines on the role of and scope of practice for audiology assistants. Ethical and legal challenges experienced by supervisors and audiology assistants persist primarily due to inconsistent state regulations and a largely undefined scope of practice. National Code of Ethics (COE) and universal principles of ethics should be referenced to help bring clarity to otherwise ambiguous practice parameters.
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