Licensure Requirements

ASHA Continuing Education Requirements

• 30 professional development hours in your 3 year interval
• A minimum of 2 professional development hours in the area of cultural competency, cultural humility, culturally responsive practice, or diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) per maintenance interval. For more information: https://www.asha.org/certification/prof-dev-for-2020-certification-standards/
• A minimum of 1 hour of professional development in the area of ethics per maintenance interval. For more information: https://www.asha.org/certification/prof-dev-for-2020-certification-standards/
• For CF supervisors there is a one-time continuing education requirement of 2 hours of professional development (post CCC certification) in the area of clinical supervision topics. For more information: https://www.asha.org/certification/prof-dev-for-2020-certification-standards/

Below is an outline of the state of Maine’s Annual Continuing Education Requirements for Speech-Language Pathologists. The board’s rules are available via the following link:

https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/sites/maine.gov.pfr.professionallicensing/files/inline-files/Chapter_8_Rules_0.pdf

• 10 hours of continuing education annually with the licensure term ending on February 28th of each year.
• A minimum of 6 hours of in-person education via attendance at seminars, completion of coursework at an accredited college or university, or distance learning opportunities in which the instructor is available for immediate instruction
• A maximum of 4 hours may be completed in the following ways: preparation and presentation of a seminar/workshop/in-service designed for SLPs/audiologists/hearing aid fitters,  peer-reviewed journal articles/published professional works (follow rules set forth in Chapter 8 of the board’s rules), distance learning where the presenter is not available for immediate instruction, completion of a home study which requires a scored assessment or post-completion certificate
• All continuing education must fall within the content areas outlined in Chapter 8, section 6 of the board’s rules.

For additional state information, ASHA has provided links to all state licensure and continuing education requirements: https://www.asha.org/advocacy/state/