S.C. Code Regs. 115-3 - Supervised Professional Employment (SPE)
(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:
(1)
Full-time experience is considered a minimum of thirty (30) hours per week.
However, working more than thirty-five (35) hours per week will not shorten the
length of the SPE, which must be for a period of at least nine months (35 hours
per week for 9 months = 1,260 hours); and
(2) Part-time experience may be applied
towards satisfying the SPE provided that it is a minimum of five (5) hours per
week and will extend the number of weeks required to reach 1,260 hours.
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.
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