(a) For licensure, an applicant shall present evidence satisfactory to the State Board for Applied Behavior Analysis and the department of one year of full-time supervised experience, or the part-time equivalent thereof, such experience to consist of 1,500 clock hours, in accordance with the requirements of this section. Of such one-year of experience, at least 150 clock hours shall be gained during a master’s or higher degree program’s required supervised practicum or internship, and shall be required for admission to the licensure examination. The remaining supervised experience shall be gained as part of the master’s degree program or following the completion of all master’s or higher degree studies, including all mandated course content.

1. (1) The experience shall consist of a planned programmed sequence of supervised experience in appropriate applied behavior analysis activities performed in accordance with the definition of the practice of applied behavior analysis as defined in section 8802 of the Education Law and satisfactory in quality, breadth, scope and nature.

2. (2) In addition to other forms of satisfactory experience, the department, in its discretion, may accept up to one year of the following experience as satisfying the experience requirement for licensure:

   1. (i) a college or university-approved master’s or higher degree level supervised practicum, internship, or field experience, any of which shall integrate applied behavior analysis knowledge and application; or

   2. (ii) teaching the subject of applied behavior analysis as a faculty member for a minimum of six semester hours, provided that the teaching meets the requirements for acceptable experience imposed by this section.

      (c) Setting.

      For a setting to be acceptable to the department, it shall meet the following requirements:

3. (1) The setting shall be a location which is legally authorized to provide services that constitute the practice of applied behavior analysis, as defined in section 8802 of the Education Law.
4. (2) The setting shall provide supervision by an authorized health care practitioner, who currently diagnoses, prescribes, or orders treatment involving applied behavior analysis in his or her professional practice for persons with autism, autism spectrum disorders and related disorders, or an individual qualified to provide applied behavior analysis services, as determined by the department. The supervisor shall be responsible for the design, coordination, integrity, and quality of the applicant's experience.
5. (3) The setting shall provide titles to the unlicensed individuals gaining experience for licensure which clearly indicate their training status as required by section 8807(4) of the Education Law.

6. (4) The setting in which the experience is gained shall be responsible for the services provided by individuals gaining experience for licensure.

   (d) Duration.

7. (1) For purposes of meeting the experience requirement in subdivision (a) of this section, acceptable experience shall consist of a continuous experience within periods of at least four months, except that experience gained within an academic program shall consist of a continuous experience within a period of not less than one semester and, in the case of teaching experience, shall consist of not less than six credit hours per semester. The four-month periods of experience or the semesters of experience shall not be required to be immediately successive.
8. (2) Full-time experience shall consist of at least 20 hours per week.

9. (3) Part-time experience shall consist of at least 10 hours per week but not more than 19 hours per week, which shall be distributed over at least two days per week.

   (e) Supervision.

   The experience shall be supervised in accordance with the requirements of this subdivision.

10. (1) Qualifications for supervisors of the required experience. The supervisor of the experience shall meet the following requirements:

    1. (i) experience obtained in New York State.

       1. (a) the supervisor shall be a licensed behavior analyst; or
       2. (b) an authorized health care practitioner who currently diagnoses, prescribes, or orders treatment involving applied behavior analysis in his or her professional practice;
    2. (ii) experience obtained in other jurisdictions. The supervisor shall be licensed in a profession authorized to provide applied behavior analysis services in the jurisdiction where the supervised experience occurs;
    3. (iii) the supervisor shall be the owner of, be employed by, or be retained by the entity providing the experience opportunities to the applicant who is gaining experience for licensure; and
    4. (iv) in order to prevent a potential conflict of interest, the supervisor shall not be a member of the applicant’s family or an individual who has a close personal relationship with the applicant and/or his or her family.
11. (2) Supervision of the experience. Supervision shall occur weekly and shall include at least two hours per week of face-to-face individual supervision pertaining to services rendered; face-to-face supervision may utilize technology acceptable to the State Board for Applied Behavior Analysis and the department, including video-conferencing.
12. (3) Up to three hours of supervision shall be considered part of the hours of acceptable experience weekly.

(b) Content.