ARM 10.57.432. CLASS 5 ALTERNATIVE LICENSE - SPECIALIST ENDORSEMENT

(1) To obtain a class 5 alternative license with a specialist endorsement in school psychology an applicant must provide verification of: (a) a master's degree; (b) completion of at least 12 of the following 16 requirements: (i) undergraduate or graduate general education/ psychology course work/content to include: (A) careers; (B) human growth and development; (C) general psychology; (D) abnormal psychology; and (E) learning theory; (ii) undergraduate or graduate general education course work/content to include: (A) exceptional children (must include special education) ; (B) curriculum development; (C) diagnosis and remediation of reading; and (D) educational evaluation; and (iii) graduate psychological methods and techniques course work/content to include: (A) individual intelligence testing; (B) child psychopathology and achievement testing; (C) personality assessment; (D) interviewing and counseling; (E) behavior interventions; (F) school psychology practicum/internship; and (G) administration, role and function of school psychology; and (c) specific completion of the individual intelligence testing requirement. (2) To obtain a class 5 alternative license with a specialist endorsement in school counseling an applicant must provide verification of: (a) a master's degree; and (b) institutional verification of being within four course deficiencies of completing full requirements as outlined in ARM 10.57.435.