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The Application form is the primary information base upon which eligibility for candidacy is determined. In effect, you are establishing the necessary academic, training, supervised experience, and professional standing required by the specialty of school psychology. The Executive Officer (EO) and Central Office (CO) staff shall verify the license to practice psychology, the doctoral degree and program. You must request that a copy of your doctoral transcript be sent to CO directly from the educational institution. The request should be initiated as soon as possible in order to not have any delay in processing your application. Any documentation (endorsements, certification of appropriate institute or continuing education) must be submitted with the application.

The application is a single form with two sections: the first part is essentially related to the generic requirements and the second part is related to the specialty’s requirements. The CO shall review the submitted application for completeness. The EO shall review the application for the determination of meeting the ABPP common, generic criteria of doctoral degree and program, licensure, and professional standing. Upon meeting the generic criteria the application materials are sent to the Specialty Board for determination in meeting the specific criteria for eligibility as a candidate.

Following the application review, applicants are quickly notified of the review results. Applicants meeting generic and specialty requirements become candidates, eligible to move on to the specialty examination process.

To better understand the application and candidacy determination perhaps it would be best at this point to review the generic and specialty criteria of the specialty of school psychology. The Application Form and fee form can be reviewed and/or downloaded by clicking here or the link in the right column.

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The application and fee/registration form can be reviewed and downloaded by linking to Application, under Forms/Fees in the right column.

Forms/Fees are all accessible by linking on the form/fee you want.

The Examination heading allows quick access to the written, practice sample, and oral components of the Examination. Most specialty quick access information shall not be completed for a couple weeks. The usual access to this information, however, is available from the Exam Manual. Please use the Exam Manual link, to the right, if the quick access Examination information is not yet available.

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