Summary of Revisions
2005 Standards and Implementation Procedures for the
Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language
Pathology
Following is a summary of revisions to implementation
language-as approved by the Council For Clinical Certification
(CFCC)-for the 2005 Standards and Implementation Procedures for
the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language
Pathology, in chronological order with the most recent at the
top.
March 2009
Standard I: Degree, Implementation
- Under Evaluation Required: Added the sentence, "d.
those who satisfactorily completed graduate course work,
clinical practicum, and knowledge and skills requirements in
the area for which certification is sought in a program that
was not accredited at the time the individual was enrolled, but
which became accredited at a later date."
Standard VI: Speech-Language Pathology Clinical
Fellowship
- Added the sentence, "Fellowships that are completed
more than 5 years prior to submission of the application for
certification are not acceptable."
- Under VI-B: Removed the sentences, "If the request is
to use videotapes instead of direct observations, the outline
must indicate how many hours will be videotaped, how often the
tapes will be made, and how feedback from the mentoring SLP
will be provided. Whenever possible, the mentoring SLP and the
Clinical Fellow should make arrangements to view the tapes
together so that communication about the feedback being
provided is immediate."
Standard VII: Maintenance of Certification,
Implementation
- Updating of the certification maintenance chart.
- Updated the paragraph explaining the on-going process of
certification maintenance.
July 2008
Throughout the document, the phrase "educated in foreign
countries" was changed to "educated outside the United
States or its territories."
Standard I: Degree, Implementation
- Added "or the official designee" to indicate who
can sign the certification application.
- Under Automatic Approval: Added the sentence,
"Applicants eligible for automatic approval must submit an
official graduate transcript that verifies the date the
graduate degree was awarded."
- Under Evaluation Required: Added the sentence,
"Applicants requiring evaluating must submit both graduate
and undergraduate transcripts for all courses being submitted
for certification purposes."
Standard III: Program of Study, Implementation
- Added the sentence, "The minimum 36 hours of course
work at the graduate level must be in speech-language
pathology."
- Under III-B: Added the sentence, "Methodology courses,
such as methods of teaching mathematics, may not be used to
satisfy the mathematics requirement."
Standard V: Assessment, Implementation
- Under V-B, Summative Assessment: Added the sentence,
"Acceptable exam results are those submitted for initial
certification in speech-language pathology that have been
obtained no more than five (5) years prior to the submission of
the certification application."
Standard VI: Speech-Language Pathology Clinical
Fellowship, Implementation
- Under VI-B: Add the sentence, "Use of real-time,
interactive video and audio conferencing technology is
permitted as a form of on-site observation."
Standard VII: Certification Maintenance,
Implementation
- Revision of the certification maintenance interval
chart
- Addition of a paragraph explaining the on-going process of
certification maintenance.