Hawaii State Personnel Standards

Hawaii State Personnel Standards

Audiologist

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Discipline Audiologist
License/Certificate Audiology License
State Department Hawaii Board of Speech Pathology and Audiology Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Professional and Vocational Licensing
State Department Hyperlink http://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/boards/speech/
Type of License/Certificate Licensure
Age Range Birth- Death
Degree Level Requirement Master's degree or its equivalent in audiology
Licensure Dependent on an Exam? Pass a written exam approved by the board.
Licensure Specific Coursework Applicants must possess at least a master's degree or its equivalent in the area of audiology from an educational institution recognized by the board. Twenty-seven (27) semester hours in basic science coursework must be completed and include: At least six (6) semester hours in biological and/or physical sciences and mathematics; at least six (6) semester hours in the behavioral and/or social sciences; and at least fifteen (15) semester hours in basic human communication processes and must include coursework in (1) Anatomic and physiologic bases; (2) Physical and psychophysical bases; and (3) Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects. Audiologist applications must document at least 36 semester hours in professional coursework which must include: at least 30 semester hours of graduate coursework: 21 of which shall be in the area of audiology; at least 30 semester hours in audiology; at least six (6) of which shall be in hearing disorders and hearing evaluation, and at least six (6) in habilitative and/or rehabilitative procedures, with individuals who have a hearing impairment; at least six (6) semester hours in speech pathology; at least three (3) of which shall be in speech disorders and at least three (3) in language disorders, and a maximum of six (6) academic semester hours associated with clinical practicum (may be counted toward the minimum of 36 semester hours of professional coursework).
Licensure Require Specific Field or Clinical Work? (1) A minimum of three hundred seventy-five hours of supervised clinical observation and clinical practicum with individuals who present a variety of communication disorders, which experience shall have been obtained within the applicant's training institution or in one of its cooperating programs; and (2) a clinical fellowship which shall have: (A) begun after completion of academic coursework & clinical observation and clinical practicum; (B) consisted of at least thirty-six (36) weeks of full-time professional experience or its part-time equivalent; (C) been completed under the supervision of an individual who holds the certificate of clinical competence in the area of practice for which the certificate is sought, or board certification in audiology from the ABA for an audiologist applicant. (D) consisted of primarily clinical activities and (E) required the supervisor to periodically conduct a formal evaluation of the applicant's progress in the development of professional skills.

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Specialist

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Discipline Deaf and Hard of Hearing Specialist
License/Certificate The license in Special Education- Deaf/Hard of Hearing
State Department Hawaii Teacher Standards Board
State Department Hyperlink https://hawaiiteacherstandardsboard.org/content/permits-and-license-types/
Type of License/Certificate Licensure
Age Range PreK- Grade 12
Degree Level Requirement Master's
Licensure Dependent on an Exam? Special Education – Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Praxis 5272, Passing score of 158

Early Childhood Educator

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Discipline Early Childhood Educator
License/Certificate The license in Principles of Learning and Teaching: Early Childhood
State Department Hawaii Teacher Standards Board
State Department Hyperlink https://hawaiiteacherstandardsboard.org/content/permits-and-license-types/
Type of License/Certificate Licensure
Age Range PreK- Grade 3 or PreK- Kindergarten
Degree Level Requirement Bachelor's
Licensure Specific Curriculum/Coursework Effective December 31, 2019, Early Childhood Educators may only be added as a teaching field after completion of a state-approved educator preparation program that includes appropriate clinical experiences in a setting in the field. The program may be based in Hawaii or another state. If an out-of-state or online program is used, the board advises obtaining verification in writing from the program that it leads to a professional teaching license in the home state.
Licensure Dependent on an Exam? Praxis 5621, Passing Score 157
Alternative Route Provisional or Temporary There are two routes to earn alternative teacher certification in Hawaii; 1) Alternative Education Preparation programs (EPP) Route is the main route to alternative teacher certification and requires candidates to apply to an approved EPP & receive a pre-service evaluation. Candidates must take the Praxis content area assessment for the endorsement sought. 2) Career and Technical Education Limited Standard Licensure: Trade professionals with three years of experience in their field and an associate’s degree who meet additional requirements may be eligible to receive a Career and Technical Education Limited Standard License to teach career and technical education (CTE) subjects. Additional requirements include passing a Praxis II content-area exam, if available, in the subject to be taught; current valid national industry certification or a state license in the subject to be taught, or 30 hours of content coursework in the subject to be taught. Candidates must also have at least 12 hours of pedagogy coursework from a state-approved teacher education program for the grade level(s) to be taught and pass the Praxis Principles of Learning and Teaching (PLT) for that grade level.

Early Childhood Special Educator

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Discipline Early Childhood Special Educator
License/Certificate License in Special Education
State Department Hawaii Teacher Standards Board
State Department Hyperlink https://hawaiiteacherstandardsboard.org/content/permits-and-license-types/
Type of License/Certificate Licensure
Age Range PreK- Grade 3 or PreK- Kindergarten
Degree Level Requirement Bachelor's
Licensure Dependent on an Exam? Praxis 5354, Passing Score 151

Family Therapist

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Discipline Family Therapist
License/Certificate Marriage and Family Therapist License
State Department Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Professional and Vocational Licensing
State Department Hyperlink https://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/programs/marriage/
Type of License/Certificate Licensure
Age Range Birth - Death
Degree Level Requirement Master's or doctorate in marriage and family therapy or an allied field.
Licensure Specific Curriculum/Coursework A minimum of 9 graduate semester hours or 12 graduate quarter hours in each of the following areas:
  • Marriage and family studies;
  • Marriage and family therapy;
  • Human development;

and include a minimum of 3 graduate semester hours or 4 graduate quarter hours in each of the following areas:

  • Ethical and professional studies; and
  • Research.
Licensure Require Specific Field or Clinical Work?
  • One year practicum with three hundred hours supervised client contact;
  • Completes one thousand hours of direct marriage and family therapy,
  • Two-hundred hours of clinical supervision in not less than twenty-four months.
Licensure Dependent on an Exam? Applicants must pass the National Marital and Family Therapy Exam

Nurse

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Discipline Nurse
License/Certificate Registered Nursing License (RN)
State Department Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Professional and Vocational Licensing
State Department Hyperlink https://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/boards/nursing/
Type of License/Certificate Licensure
Age Range Birth - Death
Degree Level Requirement Associate, bachelor, or graduate-level degree in nursing.
Licensure Specific Coursework Successful completion of accredited nursing program
Licensure Dependent on an Exam? NCLEX PN or RN (must pass in three (3) or fewer attempts or be required to take a remedial course before being approved to re-take).
Alternate Route Provisional or Temporary Temporary Permit for Nurse can be obtained directly by an employer.

Occupational Therapist

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Discipline Occupational Therapist
License/Certificate Occupational Therapist License
State Department Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Professional and Vocational Licensing
State Department Hyperlink https://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/programs/occupational/
Type of License/Certificate Licensure/Certificate
Age Range Birth - Death
Degree Level Requirement Master's
Licensure Require Specific Field or Clinical Work? Supervised field work experience required for certification by the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy
Licensure Dependent on an Exam? National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT)

Physical Therapist

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Discipline Physical Therapist
License/Certificate Physical Therapist License
State Department Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Professional and Vocational Licensing
State Department Hyperlink https://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/boards/physicaltherapy/
Type of License/Certificate Licensure
Age Range Birth - Death
Degree Level Requirement Graduation from a physical therapy education program from a school or college accredited by CAPTE.
Licensure Require Specific Field or Clinical Work? Successful completion and graduation from a Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) accredited physical therapy program.
Licensure Dependent on an Exam?
Each applicant for licensure shall be required to take the standardized physical therapist licensure examination scheduled and administered by the board's designated licensing examination service; the passing score for the licensure examination shall be the criterion-referenced passing score recommended by the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy.
Alternate Route Provisional or Temporary A temporary license may be issued for United States citizens after completion of licensure examination and awaiting results.

Psychologist

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Discipline Psychologist
License/Certificate Psychologist License
State Department Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Professional and Vocational Licensing
State Department Hyperlink https://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/boards/psychology/
Type of License/Certificate
 Licensure
Age Range Birth - Death
Degree Level Requirement Doctorate
Licensure Specific Curriculum/Coursework Applicants must have a minimum of six (6) or more graduate semester hours (or 9 graduate quarter hours) in
  1. Biological bases of behavior; physiological psychology, comparative psychology, neuropsychology, senesation and perception, psychopharmacology;
  2. Cognitive-affective bases of behavior; learning, thinking, motivation, emotion;
  3. Social bases of behavior; social psychology, group processes, organizational and systems theory, community psychology;
  4. Individual differences; personality theory, human development, abnormal psychology;
  5. Psychodiagnosis and individual assessment; intellectual, personality, and behavioral assessment; and
  6. Therapy; child or adult intervention or both.

Applicants must also have a minimum of 3 or more graduate semester hours (or 4.5 graduate quarter hours) in each area of

  1. Scientific and professional ethics and standards;
  2. History and systems;
  3. Research design and methodology; and
  4. Statistics and psychometrics.
Licensure Require Specific Field or Clinical Work?
The applicant for licensure shall demonstrate that the applicant has completed one year of post doctoral supervised experience (1,900 hours) in health service in psychology, and:
  1. An internship (1,900 hours) approved by the American Psychological Association; or
  2. One year of supervised experience in health service in psychology, in an internship or residency program in an organized health service training program.
Licensure Dependent on an Exam? Applicants must pass the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) examination with a score of 500 or higher.

School Psychologist

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Discipline School Psychologist
License/Certificate School Psychology License
State Department Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Professional and Vocational Licensing
State Department Hyperlink https://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/
Type of License/Certificate Licensure
Age Range PreK- Grade 12
Degree Level Requirement Master's
Licensure Specific Coursework Must obtain a master's degree from a regionally accredited college or university in school psychology or a major in educational psychology, counseling psychology, or closely related field in a psychology profession. Coursework in the program must include: (1) Human development and learning, (2) Individual differences, (3) Psycho-educational assessment, (3) Special education and remedial assessment, (4) Statistics, (5) Research methodology, and (6) Ethics and legal issues in education or psychology.
Licensure Require Specific Field or Clinical Work? 1,200-hour internship which 600 hours must have been in a school setting
Licensure Dependent on an Exam? Praxis II (5402) with a passing score of 147

Social Worker (LBSW)

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Discipline Social Worker
License/Certificate Licensed Bachelor Social Worker
State Department Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Professional and Vocational Licensing
Link https://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/programs/socialworker/
Type of License/Certificate Licensure
Degree Level Requirement Bachelor's degree in social work
Age Range Birth - Death
Licensure Specific Coursework Applicant must hold a bachelor's degree from a college or university in a social work program accredited by OR deemed to be equivalent to an accredited program by the Council on Social Work Education.
Licensure Dependent on an Exam? Must pass the "basic" or "bachelors" national examination given by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)

Social Worker (LSW)

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Discipline Social Worker
License/Certificate Licensed Social Worker
State Department Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs: Professional and Vocational Licensing
State Department Hyperlink https://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/programs/socialworker/
Type of License/Certificate Licensure
Age Range Birth - Death
Degree Level Requirement Master's degree in Social Work
Licensure Specific Coursework Applicant must hold a master's or doctoral degree from a college or university in a social work program accredited by OR deemed to be equivalent to an accredited program by the Council on Social Work Education.
Licensure Dependent on an Exam? Must pass the intermediate, advanced, or clinical national examination administered by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB).

Social Worker (LCSW)

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Discipline Social Worker
License/Certificate Licensed Clinical Social Worker
State Department Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs: Professional and Vocational Licensing
State Department Hyperlink https://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/programs/socialworker/
Type of License/Certificate Licensure/Certificate
Age Range Birth - Death
Degree Level Requirement Master's degree in Social Work
Licensure Specific Coursework Applicant must hold a master's or doctoral degree from a college or university in a social work program accredited by OR deemed to be equivalent to an accredited program by the Council on Social Work Education.
Licensure Require Specific Field or Clinical Work? Has provided evidence of successful completion of at least three thousand (3,000) hours of post-masters clinical social work experience under the supervision completed within no fewer than two years but within no more than five years. Clinical social work experience shall include a minimum of two thousand (2,000) hours of assessment, clinical diagnosis, and psychotherapy; no more than a maximum of nine hundred (900) hours of client-centered advocacy, consultation, and evaluation; and at least one hundred hours of supervision as follows:
(i) At least sixty of the one hundred hours of direct face-to-face supervision shall have been individualized supervision; and
(ii) Not more than forty hours of direct face-to-face supervision may have been under small group (up to six supervisees) supervision.
Licensure Dependent on an Exam? Applicants should have already passed the clinical level national examination given by the Association of Social Work Boards.

Speech Language Pathologist

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Discipline Speech-Language Pathologist
License/Certificate Speech Pathology License
State Department Hawaii Board of Speech Pathology and Audiology Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Professional and Vocational Licensing
State Department Hyperlink https://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/boards/speech/
Type of License/Certificate Licensure
Age Range Birth-Death
Degree Level Requirement Master's
Licensure Specific Coursework Applicants must possess at least a master's degree or its equivalent in the area of audiology from an educational institution recognized by the board. Twenty-seven (27) semester hours in basic science coursework must be completed and include: At least six (6) semester hours in biological and/or physical sciences and mathematics; at least six (6) semester hours in the behavioral and/or social sciences; and at least fifteen (15) semester hours in basic human communication processes and must include coursework in (1) Anatomic and physiologic bases; (2) Physical and psychophysical bases; and (3) Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects. Speech-Language Pathology applicants must document at least 36 semester hours of professional coursework which include: at least 30 semesters hours of graduate coursework; 21 of which shall be in the area of speech pathology; at least 30 semester hours in speech pathology; at least six (6) of which shall be in speech disorders and at least six (6) in language disorders; at least six (6) semester hours in audiology; at least three (3) of which shall be hearing disorders and hearing evaluation and at least three (3) in habilitative and/or rehabilitative procedures, with individuals who have a hearing impairment; and a maximum of six (6) semester hours associated clinical practicum (may be counted toward the minimum of 36 semester hours of professional coursework).
Licensure Require Specific Field or Clinical Work? A maximum of six (6) semester hours associated with clinical practicum, but those hours may not be used to satisfy the minimum of six (6) semester hours in speech disorders, six (6) semester hours in language disorders, or six (6) semester hours in audiology. In addition, applicants must complete and have supervisor verification of at least thirty-six (36) weeks of full-time professional experience (or its part-time equivalent) consisting of primarily clinical activities.
Licensure Dependent on an Exam? Pass a written exam approved by the board, the National Examination in Speech Pathology administered by the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, New Jersey.

Vision Specialist

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Discipline Vision Specialist
License/Certificate Special Education- Blind/Visually Impaired
State Department Hawaii Teacher Standards Board
State Department Hyperlink https://hawaiiteacherstandardsboard.org/content/permits-and-license-types/
Type of License/Certificate Licensure
Age Range PreK- Grade 12
Degree Level Requirement Master's
Licensure Dependent on an Exam? Praxis 5282, passing score 163