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Welcome to the new merged Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board

ALERT—POTENTIAL LICENSE DENIAL OR SUSPENSION FOR FAILURE TO PAY TAXES:
Effective July 1, 2012, the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board is required to deny an application for licensure and to suspend the license/certificate/registration of any applicant or licensee who has outstanding tax obligations due to the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) or the State Board of Equalization (BOE) and appears on either the FTB or BOE’s certified lists of top 500 tax delinquencies over $100,000. (AB 1424, Perea, Chapter 455, Statutes of 2011)

Once it has been determined that an applicant or a licensee is on a certified list, the applicant or licensee has 90 days from the issuance of a preliminary notice of suspension to either satisfy all outstanding tax obligations or enter into a payment installment program with the FTB or BOE. Any such person who fails to come into compliance will have his/her license denied or suspended until the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board receives a release from the FTB or BOE. The form for requesting a release will be included with the preliminary notice of suspension.

The law prohibits the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board from refunding any money paid for the issuance or renewal of a license where the license is denied or suspended as required by AB 1424.

The FTB and BOE are currently expanding the certified lists from 250 to 500, but you can check if you are currently on the FTB’s certified list at: www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/txdlnqnt.shtml or the BOE’s certified list at: www.boe.ca.gov/cgi-bin/deliq.cgi. If you believe you are on either list in error, please call the FTB at (866) 418-3702 or the BOE at 916-445-5167.

On January 1, 2010, the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board and the Hearing Aid Dispensers Bureau became one Board. The Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board. As such, this Web page is designed to inform you of the merger and resulting events and to assist you in selecting the site that best meets your needs. Eventually, both sites will be combined into one.

If you are looking for information relating to speech-language pathology or audiology, please select the above tab that reads: Speech, Language and Audiology. If you are looking for information relating to hearing aid dispensing, please select the above tab that reads: Hearing Aid Dispensers.

If you are looking for information regarding dispensing audiology initial licensure, renewal requirements and/or continuing education requirements for renewal, please select the tab above that reads: Speech, Language and Audiology. For information regarding dispensing audiology continuing education courses or practice issues related to dispensing hearing aids, please select the tab above that reads: Hearing Aid Dispensers.


WHAT'S New

  • Proposed Changes to Hearing Aid Reimbursement for Medi-Cal Recipients.
  • ATTENTION Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists: Beginning February 7, 2011, your street address of record will be displayed on our Web site under the License Look-up feature. If you currently use your home address as your address of record, you may want to consider changing it to your business address or a PO BOX. In order to change your address of record, please complete this form: http://www.slpab.ca.gov/licensees/addchg.pdf and mail or fax it to the Board. Your address of record is the address the Board uses to mail your license, license renewal notice, and any other related correspondence.
  • ATTN: DISPENSING AUDIOLOGISTS
  • Please be aware that you will not receive a renewal notice for your expiring hearing aid dispenser license; instead, you will receive your dispensing audiology license within 4-6 weeks of your hearing aid license expiration, if not before.
  • Please update your address of record for your dispensing audiology license with your primary dispensing office location by completing this form: www.slpab.ca.gov/licensees/addchg.pdf and faxing it to the Board.