Section 675.20  Definitions

As used in this Part:

            "Act" means the Child Vision and Hearing Test Act [410 ILCS 205].

            "Audiological Review" means a review of hearing screening results by an audiologist.

            "Audiologist" means any person licensed to provide audiology services as provided in the Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Practice Act [225 ILCS 110].

            "Calibration Check" means a listening and visual observation and an electro-acoustic evaluation of the audiometer to include frequency count, attenuator linearity, and earphone sound pressure level output.

            "Certified Hearing Screening Technician" means a person who has successfully completed the requirements of the training, written examination and practicum evaluation provided through the Department and who holds a valid Hearing Screening Technician Certificate issued by the Department.

            "Department" means the Illinois Department of Public Health.

            "Educational Screening" means a review of the student's current grade placement; classroom functioning level; achievement scores; teachers' ratings of classroom performance regarding attention and concentration, reading, arithmetic, spelling, oral language and written language skills; and teachers' descriptions of oral and written language performance, ability to hear in the classroom, and speech development.

            "Hearing Screening Services" means on-going programs of:  community education regarding the identification, prevention, cause, nature and effects of hearing impairments, program planning, management, evaluation, reporting, identification  audiometry, referral, and follow-up procedures.

            "Physician" means any person licensed to practice medicine in all its branches as provided in the Medical Practice Act of 1987 [225 ILCS 60].

(Source:  Amended at 24 Ill. Reg. 4956, effective March 20, 2000)