Call for Volunteers:
Clinical Certification Examination Subcommittees (NEW!)
Speech-Language and Audiology Canada has created two new subcommittees to the Clinical Certification Examination Committees who will be tasked with developing questions for the clinical certification exam. If you're looking for a rewarding volunteer opportunity and would like to contribute to the professional standards for the next generation of clinically certified audiologists and speech-language pathologists, this could be the position for you.
Committee Details
The two Clinical Certification Examination Subcommittees — one for the audiology exam and one for the S-LP exam — will generate questions for the SAC Clinical Certification Exam. SAC is looking for 12 individuals to fill these positions (six per subcommittee). Subcommittee members will serve terms between two and four years.
Work Requirements
- With the exception of a one-day workshop in Ottawa (see last bullet below), volunteers will conduct all work for this subcommittee remotely.
- Subcommittee members will develop a required number of exam questions on a yearly basis.
- Volunteers are required to participate in a one-day workshop on test item writing, which will take place in Ottawa in October 2014 (SAC will cover all expenses for travel, meals and accommodations).
Qualifications
To apply for this committee, you must:
- be a clinically certified SAC member
- have at least five years of clinical practice experience
- be able to work independently and remotely
- have expertise and experience in specific audiology or speech-language pathology
clinical areas
How to Apply
- Read the subcommittee Terms of Reference: Audiology subcommittee | S-LP subcommittee
- Fill out the volunteer expression of interest: Word | PDF
- Submit your completed form to volunteer@sac-oac.ca
Application deadline: June 30, 2014.
For more information, please contact Carla Di Gironimo, MS, S-LP(C), CCC-SLP, Director of Speech-Language Pathology and Standards, at carla@sac-oac.ca.
Audiology Clinical Certification Examination Subcommittee
Audiologists must have expertise and experience in:
- prevention, evaluation and diagnosis
- client management (amplification and rehabilitation)
- neonatal and infant populations
- pre-school and school populations
- profound hearing impairment
- the aging population
- occupational hearing loss
For more information about these clinical topic areas, please click here.
Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Certification Examination Subcommittee
S-LPs must have expertise and experience in:
- developmental articulation/phonology
- neurologically-based speech disorders
- developmental language disorders
- acquired language disorders
- voice disorders
- resonance disorders
- fluency disorders
- augmentative/alternate communication
- hearing and related speech-language disorders
- dysphagia
For more information about these clinical topic areas, please click here.
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