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24.222.702    SCHEDULE OF SUPERVISION - CONTENTS

(1) For monitoring purposes, the supervisor must complete an aide registration form supplied by the board. This must include an acceptable schedule of supervision.

(2) Speech-language pathology aides or assistants shall be supervised in accordance with their level of aide classification under the following schedule:

(a) aide or assistant I shall be supervised on-site a minimum of 10 percent of total client contact time. At the discretion of the supervising speech-language pathologist, the on-site supervision requirement may be reduced to 2 percent after the first year of supervision.

(i) If diagnostic evaluations are being performed, the aide or assistant I shall be supervised on-site a minimum of 30 percent of the total diagnostic process.

(b) aide or assistant II shall be supervised on-site 10 percent of client contact time; and

(c) aide or assistant III shall be supervised on-site 20 percent of client contact time.

(3) Audiology aides or assistants shall be supervised in accordance with the following schedule:

(a) audiology aides or assistants shall be supervised under a proposed plan to be submitted by the supervisor with the aide application, but which shall include a minimum of 10 percent of client contact time; and

(b) industrial audiology aides or assistants shall be supervised under (3)(a), but may be authorized to conduct pure tone air conduction threshold audiograms when performing outside the physical presence of a supervisor.

(4) The schedule of supervision must be signed by the proposed supervisor and by a responsible representative of the employing agency. The schedule must be reviewed and approved by the board annually by October 31. Aides employed after October 31 shall work no more than 30 calendar days without registering with the board.

(5) Each supervisor must also submit a supervisor summary form, as prescribed by the board, which lists the following:

(a) each speech or audiology aide or assistant;

(b) number of hours of supervision; and

(c) other information as required by the board.

(d) The board will review all supervisor summary forms indicating the supervision of three or more speech or audiology aides or assistants.

(6) The supervisor must complete and submit to the board a midyear verification form by February 25 of each year, on the supervisor's renewal form, to indicate continuing compliance with the schedule of supervision previously filed under (1).

History: 37-1-131, 37-15-202, MCA; IMP, 37-15-102, 37-15-313, MCA; NEW, 1981 MAR p. 363, Eff. 4/17/81; TRANS, from Dept. of Prof. & Occup. Lic., Ch. 274, L. 1981, Eff. 7/1/81; AMD, 1989 MAR p. 2194, Eff. 12/22/89; AMD, 1994 MAR p. 1992, Eff. 7/22/94; AMD, 1998 MAR p. 2165, Eff. 8/14/98; AMD, 1999 MAR p. 408, Eff. 3/12/99; TRANS, from Commerce, 2004 MAR p. 2284; AMD, 2006 MAR p. 2413, Eff. 10/6/06; AMD, 2008 MAR p. 385, Eff. 2/29/08.

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