New Mexico Register / Volume XXX, Issue 24 / December 31, 2019

This is an amendment to 16.26.2 NMAC, Section 11, effective 1/10/2020.

Explanatory Statement: Corrections were made through out the rule to conform to gender neutral language as per current legislative styles.

16.26.2.11 QUALIFICATIONS AND APPLICATION FOR LICENSURE AS A SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST: An application for licensure as a speech-language pathologist must be accompanied by the following documents:

A. official transcripts verifying at least a master's degree in speech-language pathology, speech-language and hearing science, communication disorders or equivalent degree regardless of degree name; or

B. a certification bearing an official seal and attesting to completion of degree requirements from the registrar, mailed directly to the board from the conferring institution; and

C. [a certified copy of a certificate of clinical competency] proof of having earned a certificate in speech-language pathology from a board recognized national speech-language association or proof of completion of the clinical fellowship year or equivalent; and

D. proof of having passed a nationally recognized standard examination in speech-language pathology;

E. proof of having passed the jurisprudence examination with a grade of no less than seventy percent; and

F. if currently or previously licensed in another state a verification of licensure must be sent directly to the board by the issuing jurisdiction.

[16.26.2.11 NMAC - Rp, 16 NMAC 26.2.11, 2/3/2006; A, 11/29/2008; A, 4/6/2016; A, 1/10/2020]