Who may lawfully provide speech services in an elementary, middle, secondary school or a preschool?
| Do you hold a teaching certificate as a TSHH (Teacher of the Speech and Hearing Handicapped) or TSSLD (Teacher of Students with Speech and Language Disabilities)? | → No → | You should not be providing services. | ||
| ↓ Yes ↓ |
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| It is lawful to provide services. | ← Yes ← | Are you an employee of the school?
(An employee is someone who has taxes withheld, whose employer pays social security tax and who gets a W-2 at the end of the year.) |
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| ↓ No ↓ |
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| It is lawful to provide services. | ← Yes ← | Are you a NYS licensed Speech-language pathologist or working
toward completion of the 9 month experience requirement necessary
for licensure?
- And - Are you: a) on a contract with a school, or b) employed or contracting with an Agency that has a contract with a school? |
→ No → | It is unlawful to provide services. |
Last Updated:
August 26, 2010
