The applicant must have obtained the equivalent of nine (9) months of full-time professional experience (the Supervised Professional Employment) in which bona fide clinical work has been accomplished in the major professional area (speech-language pathology or audiology) in which the license is being sought.

The applicant must have passed a National Examination in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, either the National Examination in the National Examination in Audiology. Each year at its first meeting, the Advisory Council will recommend to the State Board of Health a passing score for the coming year.

Twenty-one (21) ACT (or SAT equivalent) or achieve a qualifying passing score on the Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators examination or minimum GPA of 3.0 on a minimum of 60-hours of course credit as established by the State Board of Education; and 3. Praxis Subject Assessment Principles of Learning and Teaching (PLT) for Early Childhood 4. Education of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students (5272) 160

Twenty-one (21) ACT (or SAT equivalent) or achieve a qualifying passing score on the

Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators examination or minimum GPA of 3.0 on a

minimum of 60-hours of course credit as established by the State Board of Education;

and 3. Praxis Subject Assessment Principles of Learning & Teaching test 5621

The applicant must have completed a clinical practicum in marriage and family therapy of no less than 12 consecutive months that provided him or her face to face clinical practice with individuals, couples and families and allowed the applicant to apply classroom learning to actual marriage and family therapy practice situations in the field setting providing for live supervision. The practicum student must have completed a minimum of 500 face to face clinical client contact hours of which no less than 200 must be relational contact hours with couples and/or families and must have received supervision with a ratio of no less than one (1) hour of supervision for each six (6) hours of clinical client contact. The practicum experience must be supervised by an AAMFT approved supervisor or Supervisor Candidate under supervision-of-supervision by an AAMFT Approved Supervisor.

INTERNSHIP. A minimum of one year of full-time, or two years of half-time predoctoral experience is required.

The EPPP will be scored by the Professional Examination Service (PES) and the scores for Mississippi applicants reported to ASPPB and to the Board. Applicants will be required to attain the ASPPB-recommended passing score. (National Scaled Score) of 500.