An applicant for licensure shall complete procedures for application as prescribed by the Board of Examiners for the Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Psycho-educational Specialists. An applicant must furnish the board with satisfactory evidence that the applicant:

1. (1) holds from a regionally accredited institution of higher education whose program is approved by the National Association of School Psychologists or the American Psychological Association or from a degree program which the board finds to be substantially equivalent based on criteria established by the board in regulation:

   1. (a) a master's degree plus thirty hours;
   2. (b) a sixty hour master's degree;
   3. (c) a specialist's degree, which must require sixty semester hours or ninety quarter hours; or
   4. (d) a doctorate in school psychology;
2. (2) is certified by the South Carolina Department of Education as a school psychologist level II or III;
3. (3) has served successfully for at least two years as a certified school psychologist in a school psychology or comparable setting, at least one year of which must have been under the supervision of a licensed psycho-educational specialist;
4. (4) has made a satisfactory score, as prescribed by the board, on the Educational Training Service's School Psychology Examination.

HISTORY: 1998 Act No. 396, Section 8.