South Carolina Code of Regulations
Chapter 115 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, LICENSING AND REGULATION-BOARD OF EXAMINERS IN SPEECH/LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY
Article 1 - LICENSING PROVISIONS
Section 115-3 - Supervised Professional Employment (SPE)
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 3, March 22, 2024
(A) Supervised professional employment (SPE), as required by the board, means direct clinical work with patients, consultations, record keeping, or any other duties relevant to a bona fide program of clinical work. It is expected, however, that a significant amount of clinical experience will be in direct clinical contact with persons who have communication disorders. Time spent in supervision of students, academic teaching, and research, as well as any administrative activity that does not deal directly with management programs of specific patients or clients will not count toward completion of the SPE.
(B) The SPE, whether or not for wages or other compensation, should consist of not less than 1,260 hours and must be completed within one (1) year or less from the date that it begins unless renewed in accordance with statute:
In the event that part-time employment is used to fulfill a portion of the SPE, one hundred (100%) percent of the minimum hour requirements for part-time work must be spent in direct professional employment as defined in subsection (A).
(C) SPE supervision must entail the personal and direct involvement of the supervisor in observations of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that will permit the SPE supervisor to monitor, improve and evaluate the intern's performance in professional clinical employment. The supervision must include on-site observations of the intern. Other monitoring activities such as conferences with the intern, evaluation of written reports, and evaluation by professional colleagues may be executed by correspondence. The intern's supervisor must base the total evaluation on no fewer than thirty-six (36) monitored activities (a minimum of four hours per month). The monitoring activities must include at least eighteen (18) on-site observations (a minimum of two hours each month). Should a supervisor suspect at any time during the SPE that an intern will not meet the requirements of this section, the supervisor must counsel the intern both orally and in writing and maintain carefully written records of all contacts and conferences in the ensuing months.
(D) Within one month of completion of the SPE, the supervisor must conduct a formal evaluation of the intern's performance and submit the evaluation to the board. Such evaluation must be completed on a form approved by the board, must be signed and dated by both the intern and the supervisor, and must include a recommendation by the supervisor that in his opinion the intern either is or is not qualified for full licensure.
(E) The SPE supervisor shall only supervise no more than three (3) total of either interns and/or speech-language pathology assistants at one time.
(F) In order to serve as an SPE supervisor, the licensee must have a minimum of three years of full-time licensed work experience which may include an internship or other mentored professional experience that follows completion of the post-graduate degree.
