(1) To obtain a class 5 alternative license with a specialist endorsement in school psychology an applicant must provide verification of:
(a) a master's degree;
(b) completion of at least 12 of the following 16 requirements:
(i) undergraduate or graduate general education/ psychology course work/content to include:
(A) careers;
(B) human growth and development;
(C) general psychology;
(D) abnormal psychology; and
(E) learning theory;
(ii) undergraduate or graduate general education course work/content to include:
(A) exceptional children (must include special education) ;
(B) curriculum development;
(C) diagnosis and remediation of reading; and
(D) educational evaluation; and
(iii) graduate psychological methods and techniques course work/content to include:
(A) individual intelligence testing;
(B) child psychopathology and achievement testing;
(C) personality assessment;
(D) interviewing and counseling;
(E) behavior interventions;
(F) school psychology practicum/internship; and
(G) administration, role and function of school psychology; and
(c) specific completion of the individual intelligence testing requirement.
(2) To obtain a class 5 alternative license with a specialist endorsement in school counseling an applicant must provide verification of:
(a) a master's degree; and
(b) institutional verification of being within four course deficiencies of completing full requirements as outlined in ARM 10.57.435.