Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4753 - Ohio Speech and Hearing Professionals Board › Chapter 4753-3 - Licensing › Section 4753-3-04 - Educational requirements for licensure

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) To be eligible for licensure, an
			 applicant must demonstrate that the following course work requirements are met:
(1) He/she obtained a broad general
			 education, which may include study from among the areas of human psychology,
			 sociology, psychological and physical development, the physical sciences,
			 especially those that pertain to acoustic and biological phenomena, and human
			 anatomy and physiology, including neuroanatomy and neurophysiology.
(2) For licensure as an audiologist
			 applicants shall have obtained at least a doctor of audiology degree before or
			 after January 1, 2006 or the equivalent from an audiology program accredited by
			 an organization recognized by the "United States Department of Education" or at
			 least a masters degree in audiology or equivalent if all requirements under
			 division (F) of section
			 4753.06 of the Revised Code were
			 met prior to January 1, 2006.
(a) The
			 educational requirements shall be deemed met when the applicant is certified by
			 the "American Speech-Language-Hearing Association" and/ or the "American Board
			 of Audiology."
(b) Academic credit
			 for a doctor of audiology or equivalent shall include course work accumulated
			 in the completion of a well integrated course of study dealing with the normal
			 aspects of human hearing, balance, and related development and clinical
			 evaluation, audiologic diagnosis and treatment of disorders of human hearing,
			 balance, and related development.
(c) Applicants applying based on equivalency
			 shall:
(i) Hold a post-baccalaureate doctoral
			 degree with a major emphasis in audiology consisting of a minimum of three
			 years of didactic coursework consisting of a total of one hundred twenty
			 semester hours or equivalent quarter hours in the normal aspects of human
			 hearing and balance, related development, clinical evaluation, audiologic
			 diagnosis and treatment of disorders of human hearing, balance and related
			 development.
(ii) Have completed a
			 minimum of three hundred fifty clock hours of clinical experience prior to the
			 fourth year of training supervised by an audiologist meeting the requirements
			 of clinical supervisor stated in paragraph (D)(1) of rule
			 4753-3-07
			 of the Administrative Code.
(iii)
			 Have successfully completed a minimum of two thousand clock hours of supervised
			 clinical extern experience sufficient in depth and breadth to achieve the
			 knowledge and skills outcome in the fourth year of academic training supervised
			 by preceptor meeting the requirements stated in paragraph (D)(1) of rule
			 4753-3-07
			 of the Administrative Code.
(iv)
			 The course of study shall include content on ethical practice
			 standards.
(v) Pass examination(s)
			 approved by the board.
(d) Applicants applying based on at least a
			 master's degree in audiology obtained prior to January 1, 2006 shall meet the
			 requirements of paragraph (A)(3) of rule 4753-3-04 and rules
			 4753-3-05,
			 4753-3-06
			 and
			 4753-3-07
			 of the Administrative Code as stated on October 1, 2005.
(3) He/she obtained at least a master's
			 degree in the area in which licensure is sought or the equivalent as determined
			 by the board from a college or university accredited by one of the following
			 regional or national accrediting organizations or their successor
			 organizations:
(a) "Middle States Association
			 of Colleges and Schools- Commission on Higher Education"
(b) "New England Association of Schools and
			 Colleges"
(c) "North Central
			 Association of Colleges and Schools"
(d) "Northwest Association of Schools and
			 Colleges"
(e) "Southern Association
			 of Colleges and Schools"
(f)
			 "Western Association of Schools and Colleges - Accrediting Commission for
			 Senior Colleges"
The best source for determining whether the college or
				university is accredited by one of the above organizations or successors is the
				college or university itself.
(4) The academic credit upon which the
			 master's degree or higher was awarded must include course work accumulated in
			 the completion of a well-integrated course of study, as follows:
(a) A total of seventy-five semester hours or
			 one hundred twelve and one-half quarter hours were accumulated.
(b) The course work consisted of at least the
			 minimum number of hours in all areas listed below:
(i) Twenty-seven semester hours in basic
			 science course work. Of the twenty-seven semester hours, six semester hours
			 must be in biological/physical sciences and mathematics and six semester hours
			 must be in behavioral or social sciences;
(ii) Fifteen semester hours in basic human
			 communication processes, including all of the following: the anatomic and
			 physiologic bases, the physical and psychophysical bases, and the linguistic
			 and psycholinguistic aspects;
(iii)
			 Thirty-six semester hours in professional course work. Of the thirty-six
			 semester hours, thirty of the semester hours must be in courses for which
			 graduate credit was received and comply with the requirements below that are
			 applicable to the area in which licensure is sought:
(a) For speech-language pathology: thirty
			 semester hours shall be in speech-language pathology, with at least six
			 semester hours in language disorders; six semester hours shall be in audiology,
			 with three semester hours in hearing disorders and hearing evaluation and three
			 semester hours in habilitative/ rehabilitative procedures.
(b) For audiology: thirty semester hours
			 shall be in audiology, with at least six semester hours in hearing disorders
			 and hearing evaluation and at least six semester hours in habilitative/
			 rehabilitative procedures; six semester hours shall be in speech-language
			 pathology, not associated with hearing impairment, with three semester hours in
			 speech disorders and three semester hours in language disorders.
(c) For both speech-language pathology and
			 audiology, course of study shall include content on ethical practice
			 standards.