Coursework Requirements

ACSLPA has adopted the Academic Equivalency Framework (AEF), which was developed by a coalition of Canadian audiology and speech-language pathology regulators, as the minimum academic and supervised clinical practice requirements for entry-to-practice audiologists and speech-language pathologists in Alberta.

ACSLPA uses the Coursework Requirements Form for SLPs and the Coursework Requirements Form for Audiologists to check that applicants have met the academic requirements of the AEF. To complete the Coursework Requirements Form (also called Form D), applicants must review and summarize the courses from their program of study, and clearly identify how ACSLPA’s coursework requirements, as per the AEF, are covered in their program’s curriculum.

The following categories of applicants are required to submit a completed Coursework Requirement Form as part of their application for registration with ACSLPA:

• Graduates of an audiology or speech-language pathology program outside of Canada or the US,
• New graduates of a US ASHA accredited program,
• Graduates of non-accredited Canadian and US programs, and
• Applicants from American jurisdictions where application requirements are not substantially equivalent to ACSLPA’s.

NOTE:

• There is a specific Coursework Requirements Form available for each of the professions: one for speech-language pathology, and one for audiology.
• You may use both graduate and undergraduate university level coursework to demonstrate you have completed the academic coursework requirements in some In other categories, only graduate level courses are typically accepted. Undergraduate coursework may be considered if the content is determined to be “substantially equivalent”. This will be reviewed by the Registrar and the Registration Committee.
• Clock hours means the total number of hours of course instruction. For example, a course that is scheduled for three hours per week over a 12-week period would be calculated as (3 hours/week x 12 weeks) = 36 clock hours.
• Unless otherwise specified in course syllabi or other university documentation, ACSLPA will consider that each semester hour of recognized credit corresponds to 15 hours of lecture for theory based, “instructor-led” courses, which may include lectures, tutorials, seminars, or workshops.
• 33% of “student-led” hours can be counted toward the required totals. These may include laboratory hours, problem-based learning hours, self-directed study hours, or guided learning hours.
• You can separate your hours into different requirement areas, but you cannot count the same hours twice, in two different requirement areas. For example: you could put 75 of the 150 hours into one requirement area, and 75 into another, but you cannot count all 150 hours in two different requirement areas.

In accordance with the AEF, your program of study must include a minimum of the following hours: