Did You Know: New CPD Requirements begin January 2025
Did You Know?
Speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and dispensing audiologists have new activities to fulfill their continuing professional development (CPD) requirements.
Speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and dispensing audiologists have new activities to fulfill their continuing professional development (CPD) requirements.
On behalf of the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board, we would like to share information on the new activities to fulfill continuing professional development (CPD) requirements and changes to the CPD requirements for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and dispensing audiologists that went into effect on January 1, 2025.
A summary of the updates for 2025 can be found below:
- Define self-study as a course where the course instruction and licensee participation do not occur simultaneously, and requires the completion of an evaluation on what was learned during the course or at the conclusion of the course;
- Require licensees who let their license expire to complete CPD for the most recent renewal period;
- Require CPD exemption to be valid for the current renewal period;
- Increase the number of hours that may be obtained from self-study to half of the total required hours;
- Remove limitations to the number of hours that can be obtained from courses that are related to the practice of speech-language pathology or audiology;
- Increase the number of hours that can be obtained from indirect patient/client care courses to twenty-five (25) percent of the total required hours;
- Permit courses related to hearing aid dispensing to be on equipment, devices, or other products that are not on the marketing, launching, or demonstrating the marketability of equipment, devices, or other products regardless of whether it focuses on a particular manufacturer's or company's equipment, devices, or products;
- Permit two (2) hours for completing a Board sponsored Occupational Analysis;
- Define direct patient/client care as courses that cover the current practice of speech-language pathology or audiology and may include content on instruments and technology used for assessment/diagnosis or intervention;
- Prohibit courses related to instruments and technology that are on the marketing, launching, or demonstrating the marketability of instruments and technology regardless of whether it focuses on a particular manufacturer's or company's instruments and technology; and
- Clarify current regulations by making CPD requirements consistent with the Board's CPD audit process and the professional learning requirements for similar license types and course content.
Speech-language pathologists and audiologists are required to complete continuing professional development from a Board-approved provider, an accredited institution of higher learning, or a provider approved by either the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA), American Academy of Audiology (AAA), or California Medical Association (CMA) Continuing Medical Education Program for each renewal period.
For more information, please visit the SLPAHAD Board website: