Arkansas Code Title 17. Professions, Occupations, and Businesses § 17-100-303. Licensure--Examination

(a)(1) A person eligible for licensure under § 17-100-302 and desirous of licensure shall make application to the Board of Examiners in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology upon a form and in such a manner as the board shall prescribe.

(2) Any application shall be accompanied by the fee prescribed by § 17-100-308, which shall in no case be refunded.

(b)(1) Each applicant for licensure under this chapter shall be examined by the board in a written examination if the board deems a written examination to be appropriate.

(2) Standards for acceptable performance shall be established.

(3) Applicants shall be examined at a time and place and under such supervision as the board may determine. Examinations shall be given at such places within this state as the board may determine at least two (2) times each year, and the board shall make public, in a manner it considers appropriate, and shall appropriately notify all individual applicants of, the time and place of the administration of examinations.

(4) The board may examine in whatever theoretical or applied fields of speech pathology and audiology it considers appropriate and may examine with regard to a person's professional skills and judgment in the utilization of speech language pathology or audiology techniques and methods.

(5) The board shall maintain a permanent record of all examination results.