A speech-language pathologist is a professional who provides clinical services, prevention, screening, advocacy, education, supervision, and research in the areas of communication and swallowing across the life-span. Licensure requires a minimum of a master’s degree. Our scope of practice includes the areas of fluency, speech production, language, cognition, voice, resonance, feeding and swallowing, and auditory rehabilitation/habilitation. We work in a wide range of settings. New Mexico requires SLPs to complete 20 continuing education hours every two years.
An audiologist is the primary health professional who is uniquely qualified to provide an array of professional services related to the prevention of hearing loss and the audiologic evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and management of auditory and vestibular impairments. This includes programming hearing aids, cochlear implants, assistive listening devices, and bone-anchored hearing aids. Audiologists must complete a doctorate program pursuing an AuD, PhD, or combination AuD/PhD degree. New Mexico requires professionals to complete 20 continuing education hours every two years.
The clinical fellowship for Speech-Language Pathology is a mentored experience for a professional who has completed the course work and clinical practicum to receive a graduate degree.
ASL is a temporary paraprofessional license for someone who is enrolled in or applying to a graduate program in Speech-Language Pathology. An individual must submit proof of semester hours in communication disorders and/or a related field. Please be aware this is not a terminal license and is not the same as an SLPA license. New Mexico does not currently have a license for SLPAs.
