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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
No additional requirements for audiologists to provide services in schools, other than state licensure.
Speech-Language Pathologist
Communication Disorders Endorsement
- Complete an approved communication disorders program consisting of 63 quarter hours in educating students with communication disorders 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.
- A minimum of 275 clock hours of supervised teaching, internship and practicum.
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).
Emergency Certification
A 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. A master's degree in communication disorders is required for further licensure upon expiration of a Restricted Transitional 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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