1. (a) The Department of Education shall review and approve all requests by public agencies providing special education services to children and youth to initiate and/or continue to use appropriately supervised SLP assistants and/or aides.
2. (b) The department shall, as a part of its regular schedule of monitoring public agencies’ compliance with special education program standards, rules, and guidelines, review the compliance status of speech-language pathology services (i.e., the use of appropriately supervised SLP assistants and/or aides).

3. (c)

   1. (1) The department shall aggressively investigate reports of violations of these guidelines, and shall take appropriate action, consistent with its scope of authority under federal and state statute and regulation or rule, in the event that any individual employed for the purposes of working under this part is found to be acting in a manner that violates this part.
   2. (2) Furthermore, if an individual who holds Board of Examiners in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology licensure as a speech-language pathologist is found by the department to be in violation of this part, the department will notify the board of the complaint and findings for consideration under its investigative process.

Codification Notes: “SLP” means speech-language pathologist.