(a) A licensed speech-language pathologist or audiologist may advertise the provision of any services authorized by the Act so long as such advertising does not promote the excessive or unnecessary use of such services.
(b) A licensed speech-language pathologist or audiologist may advertise any academic degree that has been earned and awarded provided that the advertisement of that degree is not false, deceptive, misleading or in the exercise of reasonable care should be known to be false, deceptive or misleading.
(c) The Board may consider the following factors in determining whether advertising any degrees from the following categories of institutions is false, deceptive, or misleading:
(1) An institution that was not legally authorized or approved to award the degree by the appropriate state regulatory or licensing agency at the time the degree was awarded or at any time during which the licensee was in attendance.
(2) An institution whose state approval was revoked within one (1) year after the degree was awarded.
(d) If these degrees are generic, such as Ph.D., Ed.D., M.S., M.A., or M.Ed., the holder may represent them, but shall specify the discipline in which each particular degree was earned.
Credits
Note: Authority cited: Sections 651 and 2531.95, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections 651, 651.3, 2533 and 17500, Business and Professions Code.
1. Change without regulatory effect renumbering and amending former section 1399.185 to section 1399.156.4 filed 12-6-99 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 99, No. 50).
2. Amendment filed 9-28-2006; operative 10-28-2006 (Register 2006, No. 39).
This database is current through 4/12/24 Register 2024, No. 15.
Cal. Admin. Code tit. 16, § 1399.156.4, 16 CA ADC § 1399.156.4
