{"id":10299,"date":"2025-06-24T15:49:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/?p=10299"},"modified":"2025-06-24T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:56:09","slug":"ri-legislature-approves-changes-to-requirements-for-slp-assistants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/2025\/06\/24\/ri-legislature-approves-changes-to-requirements-for-slp-assistants\/","title":{"rendered":"RI Legislature approves changes to requirements for SLP assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Rhode Island Legislature has passed changes to SLPA licensure that will, once ratified, make the requirements more consistent with ASHA guidelines and other states&#8217; requirements (<a href=\"https:\/\/rilegislature.gov\/pressrelease\/_layouts\/15\/ril.pressrelease.inputform\/DisplayForm.aspx?List=c8baae31-3c10-431c-8dcd-9dbbe21ce3e9&amp;ID=375706\">see\u00a0full press release<\/a>). These changes will make it easier for SLPAs to become licensed, which may ease the burden on over-worked SLPs in the state. Many thanks to Allan Shaw of RISHA and to Vanessa Harwood for spearheading this initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rhode Island Legislature has passed changes to SLPA licensure that will, once ratified, make the requirements more consistent with ASHA guidelines and other states&#8217; requirements (see\u00a0full press release). These changes will make it easier for SLPAs to become licensed, which may ease the burden on over-worked SLPs in the state. Many thanks to Allan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":1310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10301,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299\/revisions\/10301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}