In order to safeguard the public health, safety, and welfare, it is necessary to provide regulatory authority over persons offering speech and language pathology and audiology services to the public.
About Us
90 292. Declaration of policy. It is declared to be a policy of the State of North Carolina that, in order to safeguard the public health, safety, and welfare; to protect the public from being misled by incompetent, unscrupulous, and unauthorized persons and from unprofessional conduct on the part of qualified speech and language pathologists and audiologists and to help assure the availability of the highest possible quality speech and language pathology and audiology services to the communicatively handicapped people of this State, it is necessary to provide regulatory authority over persons offering speech and language pathology and audiology services to the public.
Announcements
- July 16, 2026Public Comment Responses and Additional Information Regarding the Proposed Rule Changes
- June 15, 2026Recommended Elements for a Plan of Care Used in Place of an SLP-Assistant Treatment Protocol
- April 10, 20262026 Notice of Proposed Rule Change – Supervision of SLP-Assistants