{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-40-75-530","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 40-75-530","heading":"Application procedures; qualifications.","body":"An applicant for licensure shall complete procedures for application as prescribed by the Board of Examiners for the Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Psycho-educational Specialists. An applicant must furnish the board with satisfactory evidence that the applicant:\n(1) holds from a regionally accredited institution of higher education whose program is approved by the National Association of School Psychologists or the American Psychological Association or from a degree program which the board finds to be substantially equivalent based on criteria established by the board in regulation:\n(a) a master's degree plus thirty hours;\n(b) a sixty hour master's degree;\n(c) a specialist's degree, which must require sixty semester hours or ninety quarter hours; or\n(d) a doctorate in school psychology;\n(2) is certified by the South Carolina Department of Education as a school psychologist level II or III;\n(3) has served successfully for at least two years as a certified school psychologist in a school psychology or comparable setting, at least one year of which must have been under the supervision of a licensed psycho-educational specialist;\n(4) has made a satisfactory score, as prescribed by the board, on the Educational Training Service's School Psychology Examination.","path":["Title 40 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS","CHAPTER 75 Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Psycho-educational Specialists","ARTICLE 3 Psycho-educational Specialists"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t40c075.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T07:24:29Z","sha256":"c47c139149268956b9f67dcb00f66176059958ed54779e93e7eec126b0f1e539","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-40-75-520","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-40-75-540"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}