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The information below is collected from state licensure boards or regulatory agencies responsible for regulating the professions of Speech-Language Pathology and/or Audiology. 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
- 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.
- Three hundred hour supervised practicum
- Nine months full-time supervised experience or equivalent part-time (applicants that are candidates for AuD degrees may begin their required experience before their degree is awarded provided they have completed their coursework and practica).
- Passage of a Praxis exam
- Be at least twenty-one years of age
Exemptions
- Any other licensed professionals operating within their scope of practice
- Federal, state or local government employees
- Employees of public/ private elementary, or secondary schools or of an institution of higher learning
- Students in supervised clinical practice
- Teachers of the speech and hearing handicapped (does not include contractors)
- Teachers of the deaf
- Hearing aid dealers using audiometers or other testing equipment
- A person licensed in another state if services are performed for no more than 30 days per calendar year and are provided under the supervision of or in conjunction with a New York licensee
Reciprocity/Endorsement
N/A
Interim Practice/Temporary Licensure
N/A
Continuing Education for Licensure Renewal
- An applicant must complete a minimum of 30 continuing competence hours per triennial renewal period.
- Dual licensees shall complete continuing competency requirements for each registration except that 10 hours earned in a related subject may be credited to both registrations.
- At least 20 hours shall be in recognized areas of study pertinent to the licensee's professional scope of practice
- 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.
- Licensed audiologists who are registered by the Department of State to dispense hearing aids must in their 30 hour triennial period include two continuing competency hours for each full year of registration on the selecting and/or fitting of hearing aids.
Hearing Aid Dispensing
Audiologists who sell hearing aids must be registered with the Department of State as hearing aid dispensers, in addition to being licensed by the State Education Department as audiologists.
Support Personnel
N/A
Board Oversight
New York State Education Department, Office of the Professions, State Board for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Board Composition
The Board shall comprise at least seven members, three of whom shall be audiologists and four of whom shall be speech-language pathologists; each speech-language pathologist and audiologist on the Board shall be licensed and have practiced in the state for at least 5 years.
Web site
New York Office of the Professions
Questions regarding this document? Call ASHA at 800-498-2071 and ask for the State Advocacy Team.
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