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The Certification Maintenance Standards require that all certificate holders must accumulate 30 Certification Maintenance Hours (CMH) of professional development during each 3-year certification maintenance interval in order to maintain their ASHA Certificates of Clinical Competence (CCC).
Certified Life Members
Individuals who hold life membership and who are continuing to practice must meet the requirement. The purpose of the new standard is to provide the assurance that those individuals who hold the CCCs are staying current in the field through participation in continuing education activities that contribute to professional development.
Exemptions
There are exemptions for individuals who are retired, that is, no longer providing clinical services or supervising the provision of clinical services; individuals who have medical circumstances preventing them from practicing; individuals deployed on active military duty; and individuals with other extenuating circumstances that prevent them from practicing.
Clinical services are defined as evaluation and treatment of persons with speech-language and/or hearing impairments, whether such services are provided in elementary or secondary schools, in private practice, or in free-standing community clinics, rehabilitation centers, hospitals, nursing homes, or other facilities.
Dual Certificate Holders
Since the Scopes of Practice in audiology and speech-language pathology have a number of overlap areas, individuals may choose to use hours accumulated in audiology continuing education to meet the speech-language pathology certification requirement, or to use hours accumulated in speech-language pathology continuing education activities to meet the audiology certification requirement. The same hours can be applied to both disciplines in which certification is held.
Because of the staggered implementation for the 3-year maintenance intervals, some dual certificate holders were assigned a different 3-year maintenance interval for each area of certification. ASHA has adjusted certification records for all dual certificate holders. Effective January 1, 2007 both the SLP and Audiology certification maintenance intervals occur at the same time.
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