New York State Characteristics of Licensure Law

The information below is collected from state licensure boards or regulatory agencies responsible for regulating the professions of SLP and/or AUD. It is intended for informational use only, and should not be construed as legal advice.

Contact the state's licensure board or regulatory agency for exact licensure, certification, or registration requirements in your jurisdiction.

Initial Licensure Requirements

1. Master's degree or its equivalent
   Note: "Equivalent" is defined as an educational program that culminates in a graduate degree from a college acceptable to the department and shall include a practicum and 60 semester hours of specified courses of which not less than 30 semester hours shall have been at the graduate level.
2. Three hundred hour supervised practicum
3. Nine months full-time supervised experience or equivalent part-time
4. Passage of a national examination
5. Twenty-one years of age
6. Good moral character

Exemptions

1. Federal employees
2. Employees of a public or private elementary or secondary school or an institution of higher learning
3. Clinical fellows
4. Teachers of the deaf
5. Hearing aid dealers

Reciprocity

N/A

Interim Practice/Temporary Licensure

A person licensed in another state may provide speech-language pathology or audiology services if services are performed for no more than 30 days per calendar year and such services are under the supervision of or in conjunction with a New York state licensed individual.

Continuing Education for Licensure Renewal

1. An applicant must complete a minimum of 30 hours of learning activities that contribute to continuing competence per triennial renewal period.
2. At least 20 hours shall be in recognized areas of study pertinent to the licensee's professional scope of practice of speech-language pathology or audiology.
3. Continuing competency hours taken during one triennium may not be transferred to a subsequent triennium.
4. Speech-language pathologists and audiologists shall be exempt from the mandatory continuing competency requirement for the triennial registration period during which they are first licensed.

Hearing Aid Dispensing

Audiologists may dispense under an audiology license.

Support Personnel

N/A

Note

• The abbreviation SLP or SP stands for Speech Language Pathology or Pathologist, as appropriate, the abbreviation AUD stands for Audiology or Audiologist, as appropriate, and the abbreviation HAD stands for Hearing Aid Dealer.
• All jurisdictions require applicants to achieve a passing score on a national exam, and all but Nevada, North Dakota, and Virginia require applicants to complete a post graduate professional experience requirement.
• The term "clinical fellow," used throughout, means a person completing the post graduate professional experience requirement.

Questions concerning data contained in this document can be addressed by calling 800-498-2071 and asking to speak to someone on the State Policy Team.