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225 ILCS 110/8.5

(225 ILCS 110/8.5)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)

Sec. 8.5.

Qualifications for licenses as a speech-language pathology
assistant.

A person is qualified to be licensed as a speech-language
pathology assistant if that person has applied in writing or electronically on forms prescribed
by the Department, has paid the required fees, and meets both of the following
criteria:

(1) Is of good moral character. In determining moral

character, the Department may take into consideration any felony conviction or plea of guilty or nolo contendere of the applicant, but such a conviction or plea shall not operate automatically as a complete bar to licensure.

(2) Has received either (i) an associate degree from

a speech-language pathology assistant program that has been approved by the Department and that meets the minimum requirements set forth in Section 8.6, (ii) a bachelor's degree and has completed course work from an accredited college or university that meets the minimum requirements set forth in Section 8.6, or (iii) a bachelor's degree in speech-language pathology or communication sciences and disorders from a regionally or nationally accredited institution approved by the Department, and evidence of completion of at least 100 hours of documented field work supervised by a licensed speech-language pathologist that is comparable to that completed in a speech-language pathology assistant program in this State.

(Source: P.A. 103-302, eff. 1-1-24.)