Going to Grad School in a Different State

[futureslp88]

Does anyone know how difficult the procedures are for going to a grad school out of California and then coming back to California. I have heard that it is hard to get your license if you go out of state (i.e., Massachusetts) and come back.

[Chandru1]

I got this from the ASHA website:

 

"Holders of the ASHA's Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) satisfy the requirements for licensure. Persons licensed in other states who have worked for one year but who do not possess the ASHA CCC are exempt from the required professional experience requirement however must provide proof of education, clinical practicum, and passage of national exam."

 

- See more at: http://www.asha.org/advocacy/state/info/CA/licensure/#sthash.2e1vkxLY.dpuf

[NorcalSLP]

Does anyone know how difficult the procedures are for going to a grad school out of California and then coming back to California. I have heard that it is hard to get your license if you go out of state (i.e., Massachusetts) and come back.

I spent hours (and I mean HOURS) researching this as I went to grad school outside of CA (in Mass actually) and am returning to CA. I never really got much of an answer as to what is required for us to qualify to work in CA when we are done. The basic gist of what I got from my research is that if you go to a school that is AHSA/CAA certified you are able to do your CFY in CA regardless of what school you attended. This makes you licensed in CA (not MA or wherever else you went to school). IF you choose to do your CFY in MA you are licensed in MA and as MA and CA do not have reciprocity that creates a bit of trouble when you choose to return to CA (more paperwork, maybe a provisional license idk as this is not the route I am taking). The only thing that I found tricky was the clinical hours aspect. MA required 100 hours of a school based placement in order to be qualified to work as an SLP in a school. I believe CA is the same. I have heard a number of different things regarding hearing screenings and the number of hours required in CA but nothing official. I heard (again from a number of sources but nothing in writing through the CA licensing board) that CA requires 25 "audiology hours" and that 20 of them have to be hearing screenings. MA requires 5 hours of hearing screenings. I was able to get my 25 (more actually) audiology hours and 20 of them are hearing screenings. I chose to do those hours to cover myself. One other thing, because CA and MA do not have reciprocity, you will have to take the CBEST (not the MA version called the MTEL) to work in schools. 

 

This is all a very long winded way of saying that if you want to go to school outside CA (and you should apply to schools outside of CA as CA schools are VERY hard to get into and you can get a wonderful education in a different state) you can still work in CA with little to no problems (maybe just a little additional paperwork). Honestly the hardest part for me was finding (or really not finding) all this information. Well that and grad school itself :-)