California Business and Professions Code

§ 2532.25

BPC § 2532.25 Effective Jan 1, 2023Div. 2 · Ch. 5.3 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)An applicant seeking licensure as an audiologist shall possess a doctorate in audiology earned from an educational institution approved by the board. The board may, in its discretion, accept qualifications it deems to be equivalent to a doctoral degree in audiology. The board shall not, however, accept as equivalent qualifications graduation from a master’s program that the applicant was enrolled in on or after January 1, 2008.

(b)In addition to meeting the qualifications specified in subdivision (a), an applicant seeking licensure as an audiologist shall do all of the following:

(1)Submit evidence of the satisfactory completion of supervised clinical practice with individuals representative of a wide spectrum of ages and audiological disorders. The board shall establish by regulation the required number of clock hours of supervised clinical practice necessary for the applicant. The clinical practice shall be under the direction of an audiology doctoral program at an educational institution approved by the board.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 415, Sec. 10. (AB 2686) Effective January 1, 2023.