SECTION 690:10-5-6. Requirements for supervision of clinical fellows

(a)   Clinical fellows must be supervised by a speech-language pathologist who has been licensed for a minimum of two years. Licensure as a clinical fellow does not count toward the two-year license requirement.

(b)   Each supervising speech-language pathologist shall accept no more than two clinical fellows. Each supervisor holding licenses in both speech-language pathology and audiology is restricted to no more than two persons to supervise, in aggregate.

(c)   Beginning January 2017, the supervising speech-language pathologist must have successfully completed at least six hours of Board approved training in clinical supervision. At leastthree hours must include instruction in the knowledge and skills areas necessary for clinical fellow supervisors as identified by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA), other organizations, or entities the Board deems acceptable.

(d)   A speech-language pathologist who has completed six hours of training is eligible to supervise both clinical fellows and speech-language pathology assistants, provided that the six hour training includes three hours specific to supervision of clinical fellows and three hours specific to supervision of assistants.

[Source: Amended at 16 Ok Reg 1247, eff 5-13-99; Amended at 18 Ok Reg 1786, eff 5-25-01; Amended at 27 Ok Reg 1961, eff 6-25-10; Amended at 28 Ok Reg 2112, eff 7-11-11; Amended at 32 Ok Reg 1326, eff 8-27-15; Amended at 34 Ok Reg 2031, eff 9-11-17]