Ohio Speech and Hearing Professionals Board

About this board

Speech-language pathologists treat communication and swallowing disorders across every age group, from early-intervention toddlers to stroke-recovery patients. Audiologists diagnose and treat hearing and balance disorders. Both professions require graduate-level training and state licensure, and both appear throughout Ohio’s schools and healthcare systems.

School districts are a particularly important verifier here: SLPs working in Ohio schools are typically dual-credentialed, holding both a Board license and an education credential. District HR teams verifying a new hire should confirm the state professional license, not only the education-side paperwork.

Speech and Hearing Professionals Board by the numbers

These figures are ours, not the board's — we computed them from the full State of Ohio licence file so you can see this board in context rather than one record at a time. Data as of September 2026.

Only 46.8% of the 25,005 licences this board has on record are currently active — the other 53.2% belong to people who retired, moved, changed careers, or simply let a credential lapse. That gap is the single best reason to verify a licence rather than assume a name in a database means somebody may practise today.

Most common licence types

When a licence from this board is not active, the most common reason recorded is closed (6,682 records), followed by expired (6,072). Our status dictionary explains what each label actually means.

1.78% of this board's licences carry a recorded board action (444 of 25,005), against about 1.6% across all Ohio professions. A board action covers everything from an administrative consent agreement to revocation, and it is cumulative over a licence's whole life — see how we measured that before reading much into it.

Computed by OhioLicenseCheck from the State of Ohio eLicense dataset (issued licences only; application records excluded). Refreshed daily.

Who verifies these licenses?

• •School districts hiring SLPs and audiologists
• •Hospitals and rehab facilities credentialing clinical staff
• •Early-intervention and teletherapy providers
• •Families verifying a private therapist’s credentials

Verification tips

• Teletherapy providers serving Ohio students generally need Ohio licensure — verify before contracting an out-of-state provider.
• Hearing-aid dealers and fitters carry their own credential distinct from audiologists.
• Check that clinical-fellowship-year (CFY) practitioners hold the appropriate conditional credential.

Renewals and expiration

Licenses renew on a regular cycle with continuing-education requirements. Because many SLPs split time between districts, clinics, and private practice, it is common for no single employer to feel responsible for tracking the license — which is exactly how accidental lapses happen.

Frequently asked questions