(1) For monitoring purposes, the supervisor must complete an aide registration form supplied by the board, including a schedule of supervision. The board or board designee shall review and approve all schedules 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 ten percent of total client contact time. At the discretion of the supervising speech-language pathologist, the on-site supervision requirement may be reduced to two 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 ten 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 that includes a minimum of ten 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 and submitted to the board on or before October 31. Aides employed after October 31 shall work no more than 30 calendar days without registering with the board.