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The following information summarizes the requirements currently necessary to begin work in the public school system as an:
Audiologist or Speech-Language Pathologist
The information below has been collected by researching individual state department of education regulations and policy documents, state administrative code provisions and by contacting each state department of education. Please be advised that regulations and policy may change at any time, so always check with your state department of education for the most up-to-date information.
Audiologist
Audiologists in the public schools are contract employees and do not fall under specific teacher requirements of the State Department of Education. State licensure is typically required for practice in the schools.
Speech-Language Pathologist
Continuing Speech Impaired License
Fifteen quarter hours of graduate level preparation in language, speech and hearing distributed to strengthen the applicant's background in this field. This preparation shall be in addition to the preparation required for the initial speech impaired license.
Initial Speech Impaired License
- Complete an approved speech impaired program consisting of 63 quarter hours in educating speech impaired learners and culminating in a master's degree or 45 quarter hours of upper-division or graduate study beyond the bachelor's degree to include 15 graduate hours in language, speech, and hearing. The program must include: anatomy and physiology of speech, language, and hearing; phonetics; normal language development; education of exceptional children; language and speech pathology; behavior management; audiology; aural rehabilitation and diagnostic and prescriptive techniques.
In addition, a minimum of 275 clock hours of supervised teaching, internship and practicum with the speech impaired.
Note: One year of full-time public school or regionally accredited private school experience as a speech pathologist shall be substituted for this supervised teaching, internship, and practicum. Also, passage of the Praxis test in the specialty is required.
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- CCC and passage of the Praxis specialty area test.
Continuing Education Requirement
25 Professional Development Units (PDU) for each year of half time or more contracted teaching experience completed during the life of the license (three and five year cycles). PDU requirements apply to holders of Basic, Standard, and Continuing Teaching Licenses.
Emergency Certification
Restricted Transitional Teaching License is available to anyone with a bachelor's degree who applies for the license with an employing Oregon school district and is valid for three years. The Oregon school district superintendent wishing to hire the applicant must submit a letter describing their particular needs in relation to the applicant's teacher qualifications as summarized on a submitted resume, agree to provide a mentor and attest that no suitable teacher holding an unrestricted full-time license appropriate to the assignment is available. Requirements for further licensure upon expiration of a Restricted Transitional Teaching License in communications disorders would require a master's degree in communication disorders to qualify for the Initial Teaching License.
Support Personnel
All speech-language pathology assistants (including those working in the schools) must be certified by the state licensure board. Individuals must evidence transcripts showing 45 quarter hours or 30 semester hours of speech-language pathology technical course work and transcripts showing 45 quarter hours or 30 semester hours of general education credit and written evidence of 100 clock contact hours of clinical interaction.
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