Applications for Licensure

PURPOSE: This rule outlines the procedures for application for licensure as a speech-language pathologist, audiologist, or both. (1) Applications for licensure must be made on forms prepared by the Advisory Commission for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists. Application forms may be obtained by writing the Advisory Commission for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, 3605 Missouri Boulevard, P.O. Box 4, Jefferson City, MO 65102, (573) 751-0098. (2) An application will not be considered as officially submitted unless completely filled out, properly attested and the application fee has been submitted and received by the commission. The application fee must be submitted in the form of a cashier’s check, bank draft, post office or express money order payable to the Missouri Board of Healing Arts, drawn on a United States bank or firm in United States currency. (3) The completed application, including all documents, supporting material and official transcripts required by the commission, must be received at least thirty (30) days before the next regularly scheduled commission meeting. Applications completed fewer than thirty (30) days before the next regularly scheduled meeting may be scheduled for the following regularly scheduled meeting. (4) Verification of all professional licenses, registrations or certifications held by the applicant to practice as a speechlanguage pathologist or audiologist, and any other profession in any state(s) or territories shall be submitted to the board directly from the issuing agency. This verification must document the status of such license, registration or certification, the type of license and effective dates. (5) An applicant shall present with the application a recent, unmounted, identifiable photograph not larger than three and one-half inches by five inches (3 1/2" × 5") nor smaller than two inches by three inches (2" × 3"). (6) Following the commission’s review, the applicant will be informed by letter either that the application has been approved or that it has been rejected. Any rejection letter will outline, with as much specificity as practicable, the reasons for rejection. AUTHORITY: sections 345.015, 345.030, 345.050, 345.055 and 345.065, RSMo Supp. 2000.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 150-4.010. Original rule filed Dec. 19, 1975, effective Dec. 29, 1975. Amended: Filed Feb. 4, 1983, effective July 1, 1983. Amended: Filed Aug. 10, 1983, effective Nov. 11, 1983. Rescinded and readopted: Filed July 1, 1988, effective Oct. 27, 1988. Amended: Filed Nov. 16, 1998, effective July 30, 1999. Amended: Filed April 30, 2002, effective Nov. 30, 2002. Moved to 20 CSR 2150-4.010, effective Aug. 28, 2006. *Original authority: 345.015, RSMo 1973, amended 1986, 1995, 1998; 345.030, RSMo 1973, amended 1981, 1995, 1998; 345.050, RSMo 1973, amended 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1995, 1998; 345.055, RSMo 1973, 1981, 1995, 1998; and 345.065, RSMo 1973, 1981, 1995, 1998.