4732-9-03 Computation and attainment of experience.

(A) When the application pertains to licensure as a psychologist, each year of supervised professional experience in psychological work of a type satisfactory to the board, as described in paragraph (H) of rule 4732-9-01 of the Administrative Code, shall include at least eighteen hundred hours of work within one calendar year or at least eighteen hundred hours of part-time work which shall be completed within a period not to exceed three calendar years. In no event shall the applicant receive credit for more than one year of such supervised professional experience for activities performed over any twelve-month period, with forty hours per week being the maximum credited.

(B) When the application pertains to licensure as a school psychologist, each of the four years of required experience, as described in paragraph (C) of rule 4732-9-02 of the Administrative Code, shall include at least nine months’ full-time work at thirty-five hours per week or the equivalence of same in part-time work which shall be completed within a period not to exceed three calendar years. The twenty-seven months of full-time experience provided for in division (C)(7) of section 4732.10 of the Revised Code shall be distributed over a period of at least three school years of nine months each. In no event shall the applicant receive credit for more than one year of training or experience for activities performed over any twelve-month period.

(C) The professional training or experience required of the applicant as a prerequisite to admission to the examination for a psychologist license or to the examination for a school psychologist license shall be completed no later than the last day of the month following the appropriate examination. The term “last day of the month of the appropriate examination” shall include either a written examination or an oral examination or both.

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 07/26/2004 and 07/26/2009

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 4732.06

Rule Amplifies: 4732.06, 4732.10, 4732.15

Prior Effective Dates: 12/30/77, 9/1/81,