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Speech and Hearing Professionals Board briefs committee on licensing, enforcement and interstate compact
Summary
Greg Thornton, executive director of the Ohio Speech and Hearing Professionals Board, told the House Education Committee the board is self-funded, cites steady licensing volumes, and is implementing interstate compact work and professional guidance tied to new law.
Greg Thornton, executive director of the Ohio Speech and Hearing Professionals Board, told the House Education Committee that the board’s mission is consumer protection through licensure and enforcement of audiology, hearing-aid fitting/dispensing, and speech-language pathology, and that the agency operates without GRF support.
Thornton said the board issues roughly 400 initial licenses and processes more than 10,000 renewal applications every two years, serves about 11,000 licensed practitioners statewide, and runs licensing and enforcement programs with a four-person staff plus a full-time…
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