**From July 16, 2023 through July 15, 2025, the application fee is reduced from $100 to $5. This is in accordance with Act 114 of 2023. Inactive/reactivation fees are reduced from $40 to $2.
Upon receipt of a completed application packet, an applicant is granted a 30-day grace period of to begin work while his/her initial application is being processed. Below are the licensure requirements listed by licensure type.
Application materials may be emailed to abespa@arkansas.gov or sent in the mail. The application fee of $5.00 must be mailed in. Transcripts and Verifications of Licensure must remain in a sealed envelope.
Requirements listed by license type:
- Audiology
- Master’s or doctoral degree in communicative disorders
- Passing score on the PRAXIS, ASHA certification, or ABA certification
- If the applicant holds only a master’s degree, the applicant shall submit evidence of no less than 36 weeks of full-time professional experience or its part-time equivalent
- Speech-Language Pathology
- Master’s degree or doctoral degree in communicative disorders
- Passing score on the PRAXIS exam or ASHA certification
- Completion of no less than 36 weeks of full-time professional experience or its part-time equivalent
- Speech-Language Pathology Provisional
- Master’s degree in communicative disorders
- Completed CFY Plan
- Appropriate clinical experience in speech-language pathology
- Speech-Language Pathology Assistant Graduate Student Presentation
- A Bachelor’s degree in speech-language pathology or complete a speech-language pathology assistant training program culminating in an associate degree
- At least 100 hours of fieldwork experience carrying out speech-language pathology assistant responsibilities
