Applicants from International and Non-Accredited Canadian Programs

No, you cannot. It is against the law to work as an audiologist or a speech-language pathologist in the province of Ontario without first obtaining a certificate of registration with CASLPO.

No. To be registered in Ontario as an audiologist or speech-language pathologist, you must have completed a professional master's degree in the field. This degree must contain coursework, clinical practicum and a research component.

Undergraduate level university courses may be used towards the coursework requirements. It is understood that the majority of the coursework hours in the major professional area will have been completed at the master's level.

Yes, CASLPO will accept SAC's Summary of Clinical Practice Hours form or an equivalent official document from your university in lieu of CASLPO's "Form B: Summary of Clinical Practicum" provided that it has all of the information contained in CASLPO's Form B.

No. A course by course credential assessment is not required. However, CASLPO requires all International graduates to obtain a "document-by-document" or Basic Assessment from one of the CASLPO approved credentialing agencies. A list of approved credentialing agencies is available in CASLPO's Initial or General Certificate Application Guide - International Graduates.

Yes, problem-based learning hours are accepted towards the fulfillment of coursework hours.

Please note that CASLPO accepts 30% of student-directed coursework hours (e.g., laboratory, problem-based learning hours) and 100% of instructor-directed coursework hours (e.g., lecture, tutorial, seminar hours). In all cases, the type of coursework hours that have been completed must be clearly indicated in your course/module syllabi.

Because coursework and practicum hours in the minor professional area are non-exemptible requirements, they must be fulfilled. However, when this is the ONLY deficiency in meeting all of the requirements for registration, a panel of CASLPO's Registration Committee may grant an initial certificate of registration with conditions regarding the completion of these requirements after registration.

Please note that any time a deficiency in an application is identified, the application must be referred to the registration committee for review. This means that the application process will take additional time. Please follow this link for the application timelines.

When a requirement is non-exemptible it means that the requirement cannot be waived by any staff member of CASLPO, or by a panel of the College's Registration Committee.

We advise extreme caution in opting out of a professional course offered by your master's programs.

In the past, we have seen applicants whose master's program accepted an undergraduate course (e.g., survey language disorders course, phonology) in place of a master's level disorders course (e.g., Aphasia, Phonological disorders). After review by the College's Registration Committee, these applicants were deemed to have not met CASLPO's minimum requirements and were required to then complete that course before becoming registered.

Please note that CASLPO (and likely other regulatory bodies) require in-depth study of the relevant content areas (indicated in the application guide). Survey courses or short focus of the content area in a course primarily related to other topic(s) are not sufficient to meet the requirement.

Within 15 days of CASLPO receiving your application, you will be contacted via email. At that time, the College will let you know:

• Whether or not your application is complete, or
• If your application is ready for review.

Please note, it is not possible for CASLPO to expedite any applications. We are committed to processing applications as quickly as possible and in the order that they are received.

Please refrain from calling or emailing the College prior to the 15 days, as it slows our processing significantly.

The College has posted timelines on the website indicating how long the different steps of the application and registration processes will take. https://caslpo.com/applicants/application-timelines-and-fees

As an example, we will contact you within 15 days of receiving your application form and we will let you know at that point which documents we have received. At each stage, we will let you know in our email when you should expect to hear from us next. Unfortunately, we do not have the capacity to respond to each applicant regarding the receipt of individual documents on the day that the document is received.

Please contact us only in the following situations:

• there has been a change to your application
• you have new contact information
• you would like to withdraw your application
• it is past the deadline you were provided with

Outside of these situations, please refrain from contacting us and trust that we will email you regarding each step of your application process. There are many applicants to the College throughout the year, and additional calls and emails slow down the review process for you and everyone else so that we cannot meet our deadlines.

No. The College does not accept notarized copies of the required documents for registration (i.e., transcripts, clinical practicum hours, academic credential assessment, language test scores, etc.).

Yes, you can. The following documents may be sent to the College as a fax or a scanned copy:

1. Application Form
2. Coursework Requirements
3. Syllabi:(If emailing scanned PDF copies, you must send all of them together, not as individual courses)
4. Copy of proof of citizenship (passport, birth certificate, permanent residence, work permit)
5. Reference Request

The following documents MUST be originals and cannot be scanned or sent by e-mail:

1. University Transcripts (can be emailed if sent securely by the university or sent by mail in a university sealed envelope),
2. Academic Credential Assessment
3. Summary of Clinical Practicum Form (can be emailed by your clinical coordinator or university program director)
4. Verification of Registration Form
5. Language Proficiency Test Score

No. The College currently accepts applications in PDF format. For safety and security purposes, the College does not accept shareable web file links from Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive from external sources.

If you have an iPhone, the Notes application has the option to act as a scanner and you can send multiple pages as one single document. If you don't have an iPhone or this function on your smart phone, there are many free scanner apps you can download that will perform in the same way.

Note: Your scanned document must be legible and must not include any shadows that obscures the documents' details. Avoid using highlighter on your documents before scanning as this may make your scanned documents unreadable.

The College will only accept PDF documents only. Do not send documents to the College as image files (i.e., JPEG, TIFF, RAW, DNG, PNG, BMP, PSD, etc.).

What we say is to do your best. For our files, we need documentation that demonstrates which subsection a course's hours go into and how many hours there are. If the course title is transparent/obvious (i.e., intro to psychology/intro to linguistics/Phonetics) and you have other documents that will tell us how many lecture hours there are in a similar course in that semester, then it is less important that we obtain the specific syllabus for such a course. For other courses, the specific information about content (i.e., "Voice Disorders" does not tell us
if 'cleft palate management' was covered) cannot be obtained from the course title and/or the transcript or other syllabi. If coursework hours vary across courses, then another syllabus will not provide the required information.

If you do not have copies of your syllabi and have consulted with former classmates, we suggest contacting the professor, as most professors have electronic copies of their course syllabi. Additionally, the office of the Registrar at universities have kept copies of the course calendars with course and program descriptions and can send that. As well, try googling the course number and the year, you would be surprised what applicants have found in the past!

The risk of not sending enough documentation related to your coursework is that if some information is missing, then we will need to come back to you to ask for further information, which will add time to the application process.

The fees associated with The College's registration process can be found on CASLPO's fees chart here.

No. The College will not return original documents to applicants regardless of whether the College approves or denies an application.

Applicants may have access to copies of all documents submitted during the application process by sending a written request via email to CASLPO's Program Assistant. The following service fee is also required with the applicant's written request:

• $50.00 per request including the first twenty-five pages, and $1.00 per page thereafter.

Two years is the amount of time your application is active following your receipt of a registration decision from CASLPO.

Incomplete applications will remain active for two years.

After two years, your application will be closed. If you would like to become a registrant of CASLPO at a later date you must submit a new application to the College.

Please click here to see CASLPO's application timeline.

4 to 6 months is the approximate time it will take for the Registration Committee to complete a review of your application and issue a decision if you do not meet one or more of CASLPO's requirements for registration.

1. It will take approximately 15 days to notify you of the status of your application. This will include the list of documents that we have received and any that are outstanding.
2. Once your application is complete, it will take up to 10 weeks to determine if your application has a deficiency.
3. Once a deficiency has been identified, it takes approximately 30 days before you will receive a notice that tells you we are referring your application to the Registration Committee for consideration. The notice of referral will outline the deficiencies found in your application.
4. You have 30 days to respond to the notice of referral and make any additional submissions to the Registration Committee regarding your deficiencies.
5. Your application will be considered by the Registration Committee at the next scheduled meeting. Meeting dates are not pre-set but are scheduled quarterly.
6. The Registration Committee's decision will be provided to you in writing approximately 5 weeks following the meeting date.

Please note that if there are outstanding requirements, additional training and/or testing may be required by the Registration Committee before an applicant can be registered.

Applications are referred to the Registration Committee if the Registrar believes that the applicant has not met the College's registration requirements.

The College's registration requirements are outlined in Ontario Regulation 21/12.

The Registration Committee panels meet quarterly. Panels may meet more frequently depending on the volume of applications for review. However, the Committee does not have a set schedule.

Applicants are not permitted to attend Registration Committee panel meetings in person. Applicants must provide any additional information in their written submission at least one-week before the Registration Committee panel meeting.

If you're a new graduate from an accredited Canadian university program in audiology or speech-language pathology, you don't need to apply for registration with CASLPO before enrolling for the CETP Exam. However, you must fulfill the academic and clinical requirements of your audiology or speech-language pathology master's education program at least 20 days before the CETP Exam date. Your university program director will confirm your eligibility to take the CETP Exam with SAC directly.

If you graduated from an accredited Canadian university program over a year ago, you may enroll for the Exam during the Exam enrollment period before receiving confirmation of eligibility from CASLPO. You must also submit a complete application with all the required documents to CASLPO for review at least 8 weeks before the Exam date. This will allow CASLPO enough time to review your application and confirm your eligibility to take the Exam 20 days before the Exam date.

The Canadian Entry to Practice Exam is administered by Speech-Language and Audiology Canada (SAC).

Please visit the SAC website at https://www.sac-oac.ca/cetp-exams for full details about the CETP Exam.

The CETP Exam is held three time a year.

Exam enrollment dates and deadlines are post at https://www.sac-oac.ca/writing-cetp-exams-audslp#Exam%20Dates

If you have started mentorship and you do not pass the CETP Exam, you must stop your practice and your mentorship within 30 business days of learning of your Exam failure. Your initial certificate of registration with CASLPO will expire after that 30 business day period. You may re-apply for an initial certificate after your successful completion of the Exam is confirmed. Your mentorship can be resumed when your initial certificate has been reinstated.

If you have not completed your registration with CASLPO and you have failed the CETP Exam on your first attempt, your application will remain active for up to two years from the date your application was received by the College and you will be permitted to continue with your registration after your successful completion of the Exam is confirmed.

Applicants have the option to choose the type of certificate of registration (i.e., licenses) that best suits their situation. The following types of certificates of registration are available:

1. Initial
2. General
3. Academic
4. Non-Practising

Flowchart for assistance deciding which type of certificate to apply for.

Professional experience consists of time in which you were employed as an audiologist or speech-language pathologist, and you were the professional who was accountable for all of the service you provided.

The receipt of a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) does not determine whether you must complete a mentorship with CASLPO.

If you wish to become a general, academic or non-practising registrant with CASLPO and if you meet the registration requirements for one of these certificates as set out in Ontario Regulation 21/12, you do not need to complete a mentorship with CASLPO.

However, if you become an initial registrant with CASLPO, you must successfully complete a minimum 6-month mentorship when beginning to work in Ontario.

CASLPO's mentorship period provides new registrants with an orientation to CASLPO's professional standards, self-assessment tool, and peer assessment process which is very different from what must be done during ASHA's Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY).

You must apply for an Initial Certificate of Registration if you have completed a professional master's degree in SLP or AUD as well as one or more of the following:

1. You have NOT provided a minimum of 750 hours of patient care or related work in audiology or speech-language pathology in another jurisdiction.
2. You have provided a minimum of 750 hours of patient care or related work in audiology or speech-language pathology in another jurisduction, but you have not passed the registration examination, but you wish to start practising in Ontario with a mentor.

Completion of CASLPO's mentorship period is not required if you meet the following requirements for a general certificate:

1. Your application has been reviewed and you have been deemed eligible for registration with CASLPO.
2. You have provided 750 hours of patient care or related work in audiology or speech-language pathology in another jurisdiction in the last three years.
3. You have successfully completed the College's registration examination.

OR

1. You are currently registered in another Canadian regulated province and have a certificate that is equivalent to CASLPO's general certificate.

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If you hold an initial or a general certificate of registration with CASLPO, you must also maintain your professional liability insurance coverage.

Academic registrants are also required to maintain professional liability insurance coverage if they are directly responsible for providing or deciding to provide any clinical services within the scope of their practice.

For details about the requirements, please refer to College By-law #6.

Yes, you must be covered (either personally or by your employer) by professional liability insurance for a minimum of $2,000,000 per claim for all business locations at which you practice.

Speak to your organization's finance, corporate services and/or human resources department. All regulated health colleges require registrants to have professional liability insurance, so the organization should be able to confirm that they have the required insurance ($2 million per claim) to cover regulated health professionals.

Click here for the "Did You Know… the differences between a regulatory body and an association?"

Yes, CASLPO will accept university coursework hours that are taught online.

The College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists of Ontario is operating a virtual office until further notice. There are no walk-in visits being accepted at the College at this time. Visit our contact us information page.