Doctor of Audiology degree (Au.D.) or a Ph.D. in audiology from a program accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-

Language Pathology of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Accreditation Commission for Audiology Education (ACAE)

The program requires that successful candidates:

(1) identify, apply, and reflect on their knowledge of child development by: (i) demonstrating an understanding of early childhood (birth-age 8) characteristics and needs across multiple, interrelated areas of children's development and learning including physical, cognitive, social, emotional, language, and aesthetic domains as well as learning processes, bilingual/multilingual development, and motivation to learn; and (ii) understanding and valuing developmental variations, experiences, strengths, interests,

abilities, challenges, and approaches to learning for all children

(2) The program ensures that successful candidates identify, apply, and reflect on their knowledge of family and community partnerships

(3) The program ensures that successful candidates identify, apply, and reflect on their knowledge of observation, documentation, and assessment

(4) The program ensures that successful candidates identify, apply, and reflect on their knowledge of teaching and engagement

(5) The program ensures that successful candidates identify, apply, and reflect on their knowledge

(6) The program ensures that successful candidates identify, apply, and reflect on their knowledge of professionalism

The program ensures successful completion of clinical and student teaching experiences that:

(a) are well-planned and sequenced in a variety of settings (i.e., state-licensed child care, Head Start, or community programs);

(b) provide the opportunity to connect early childhood classroom experiences to home and community settings;

(c) include experience in two different age groups (grades 3-6 and grades 5-8); and

(d) include a K-3 student teaching experience in a P-12 school setting.

Authorizing statute(s): 20-2-114, MCA

Implementing statute(s): 20-2-121, MCA

History: NEW, 2014 MAR p. 2936, Eff. 7/1/15; AMD, 2023 MAR p. 86, Eff. 7/1/23.

Minimum of a master's degree from an accredited institution consisting of a minimum of 60 semester hours or 90 quarter hours. Those hours must include a minimum of 48 semester hours or 72 quarter hours of courses in:

(i) foundations of relational/systemic practice, theories, and models;

(ii) biopsychosocial health and development across the life span;

(iii) clinical treatment with individuals, couples, and families;

(iv) ethics in marriage and family therapy;

(v) diverse, multicultural, and/or underserved communities; and

(vi) systemic/relational assessment and mental health diagnosis and treatment.

(a) 100 individual hours, using a 20:1 ratio of client contact hours to supervision hours of which at least 75 percent are in individual supervision;

(b) group supervision consisting of no more than six candidates; and (c) a minimum of 1000 post-degree hours of client contact accumulated within the last five years with a minimum of 50 percent of those hours providing services to couples and families. There must be a 20:1 ratio of client contact hours to supervision hours with: (i) at least 200 hours of face-to-face supervision of which at least 150 hours are in individual supervision, and of which a minimum of 80 hours is earned with each

supervisor; and (ii) at least 100 hours of supervision involving raw clinical data, i.e., live observation in the therapy room or through a one-way mirror or live-feed camera, videotape, or audiotape.

The curriculum must instruct in scientific and professional ethics and standards, research design and methodology, statistics, and psychometrics, and require students

demonstrate competence (a minimum of three or more graduate semester hours/five or more graduate quarter hours) in each of these substantive content areas:

(i) Biological bases of behavior: physiological psychology, comparative psychology, neuropsychology, sensation and perception, psychopharmacology;

(ii) Cognitive-affective bases of behavior: learning, thinking, motivation, emotion;

(iii) Social bases of behavior: social psychology, group processes, organizational and systems theory; and

(iv) Individual differences: personality theory, human development, abnormal psychology;

(i) includes adequate training in psycho diagnosis and several types of psychological assessment and intervention procedures and their theoretical bases; and

(j) includes at least 60 quarter hours/40 semester hours of formal psychology graduate study.

(i) No more than 15 quarter hours/ten semester hours of university extension credits may be credited toward the doctoral degree requirement.

(ii) Of the 60 quarter hours, a minimum of 45 quarter hours/30 semester hours must occur when the applicant is matriculated in the doctoral program and be clearly designated on the transcript as graduate level psychology course work, exclusive of practicum, dissertation, and transfer credits.

LCSW supervised work experience hours obtained post-degree must include 3000 total hours. As a part of the total supervised work experience requirements, at least 100 hours must include individual or group supervision by a qualified supervisor.

(a) Of those 100 hours, at least 50 hours must be individual and supervised face-to-face by an LCSW.

(b) Of the 50 hours in (a), at least ten hours must include direct observation of service delivery.