Methodology & sources

How official sources are used on GUIDRYALLIED. Figures and compact status quoted on other pages were checked November 10, 2026.

What we quote, and what we don’t

National certification figures appear only when we can quote them from an official page checked the same day we published them, with the date on the page. State continuing-education hours, fees, and renewal dates must be confirmed on the board site. If a figure is not from an official source we checked, it is not listed. A gap in an official list is labeled “Not listed,” not filled in. If a field must be shown without a checked official figure, it is marked with the single muted word Unverified.

Board links

OT board websites are taken from clickable URI annotations in the official NBCOT state contact list (PDF). PT board websites and license verification tools are taken from the official FSBPT licensing authorities page. Those board website URLs were compiled from those official directories and were not all re-fetched individually on November 10, 2026. That day’s board-link change is the Connecticut PT board URL, which was unwrapped from a tinyurl to the direct portal.ct.gov page. Staff names, emails, and phone numbers from those directories are not copied onto this site.

Compacts

PT Compact status in the directory comes from the official PT Compact map category lists. OT Compact cells quote the official Before You Apply column “Accepting OTC Applications?” Fees, jurisprudence contacts, personal names, emails, and phone numbers from that page are not copied here. Official map labels from the OT Compact map are shown only for jurisdictions not listed on Before You Apply.

The official OT Compact homepage, in a status update of October 2026, says both of the following.

Visit the “Before You Apply” webpage to learn which states are accepting OTC applications.

You cannot practice in an OTC state under the OT Compact, even if that state has enacted OTC legislation. You can only apply when the state opens applications, deems you eligible to apply, AND your application is approved.

That same update still states: “The OT Compact is enacted in some states, meaning those states have passed legislation to be part of the compact (check out the ‘Maps’ page tabs to see which states have joined the OTC). However, the OT Compact is not yet operationalized, meaning the process to apply for and receive compact privileges is still developing.”

This directory lists which member states are accepting applications, and which are not yet, from the official Before You Apply table, checked November 10, 2026. The official sentences quoted above are the compact’s application and practice rules. Confirm current status on that page and the official compact map.

NBCOT unit conversions

Quoted from the official NBCOT continuing education page checked November 10, 2026:

1 contact hour (not to include meals or breaks) = 1 PDU
1 clock hour (not to include meals or breaks) = 1 PDU
0.1 continuing education unit (CEU) = 1 PDU
One contact hour earned through successful completion of education (workshops, seminars, online courses, or conferences) with an assessment component at the end of the program (scored test, project, paper) = 1.25 PDUs
1 competency assessment unit (CAU) = 1 contact hour or 1 PDU
NBCOT adheres to the CEU definition defined by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) of 1 CEU = 10 contact hours

Career, exam, and education pages

Standalone how-to-become, exam, interview, education, and specialty pages quote official ACOTE, CAPTE, NBCOT, FSBPT, APTA, ABPTS, OT Compact, and PT Compact pages checked November 10, 2026. Program directories stay on those official sites; this publisher does not build a paid or scraped school list. Interview prep describes credentials that can be verified on official sites and does not invent sample questions.

Pay, renewal, international, and jurisprudence pages

Pay and outlook pages quote the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook pages for occupational therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapy assistants and aides, and physical therapist assistants and aides, checked November 10, 2026. Combined assistant-and-aide figures are labeled as combined. Renewal pages quote NBCOT’s certification renewal and continuing-education pages checked the same day; state license hours and fees stay on the board sites. Internationally educated pages quote only NBCOT’s eligibility/OTED page and FSBPT’s Non-U.S. Candidates and related exam pages. The jurisprudence page quotes FSBPT’s jurisprudence exam and JAM pages, including the twenty-nine-state figure, and does not copy FSBPT’s licensure reference guide list.

Compare, work settings, program choice, and compact applications

Comparison pages (OT vs PT, OT vs OTA, PT vs PTA) line up sentences from the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook What They Do, How to Become One, and Quick Facts sections, NBCOT’s eligibility and OTR/COTA pages, APTA’s becoming-a-PT, becoming-a-PTA, and careers pages, and the ACOTE and CAPTE directories, all checked November 10, 2026. Where BLS publishes assistant-only figures separately from the combined assistant-and-aide Quick Facts, the assistant-only figures are labeled as such. These pages do not draw scope-of-practice lines that the official sources do not state. Work-settings pages quote each BLS handbook Work Environment section, including BLS’s published largest-employer shares, with assistant and aide lists kept separate. The choose-a-program page quotes ACOTE’s U.S. school directory categories and students-and-public page, CAPTE’s accredited-programs page, and APTA’s program-choice wording; it names no schools and ranks none. The compact-application page quotes the PT Compact Process & Requirements page and eligibility checker and the OT Compact homepage and Practitioner FAQs; it does not copy fee tables and does not add steps those pages do not list. BLS handbook pages showed “Last modified date: August 27, 2026” for occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants and aides, and physical therapist assistants and aides, and “Last modified date: October 29, 2026” for physical therapists.

How long it takes, privilege vs license, and pay by setting

How-long pages quote only durations and timing that official pages state: BLS How to Become One sections (OT master’s programs, OTA associate programs, DPT and PTA programs, PT residencies), APTA’s becoming-a-PT and becoming-a-PTA pages, NBCOT’s Apply for your exam and Schedule your exam pages, and FSBPT’s Dates and Deadlines, Future Test Dates, Registration Process, and Schedule Exam pages, all checked November 10, 2026. ACOTE and CAPTE public pages did not publish a program-length figure, so none is attributed to them, and no length is given for OT doctoral or OTA baccalaureate programs. NBCOT’s scoring calendar did not render in a plain read, so score dates are not listed. Exam fees and license processing times are not listed. The privilege-vs-license page quotes the OT Compact homepage, About page, and Practitioner FAQs, and the PT Compact homepage, Process & Requirements page, eligibility checker, and Resources page; it copies no fee amounts and gives no advice on which to choose. Work-settings pages add the median annual wages by top industry that each BLS handbook Pay section publishes, with assistant and aide lists separate.

Speech-language pathology pages

Speech-language pathology (SLP) and SLP assistant (SLPA) pages quote the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook page for speech-language pathologists (which showed “Last modified date: August 27, 2026”), ASHA’s certification, Clinical Fellowship, national examination, certification maintenance, assistants certification, SLPA education pathway, and Practice Portal pages, the CAA homepage and ASHA EdFind, and the official ASLP-IC homepage and FAQ, all checked November 10, 2026. BLS has no separate handbook profile for SLP assistants, so no SLPA pay or outlook figures are published. CAA and EdFind did not publish a single program-length figure. No ASHA, ASLP-IC, or state fee amounts are copied, no SLP schools are listed, and the OT/PT state table has no SLP column. The SLP pages describe only what those official pages state about how the professions relate; they draw no scope-of-practice lines of their own. Audiology is mentioned only where the ASHA or ASLP-IC pages cover it together with speech-language pathology.

Duties, verification, after-the-exam, Clinical Fellowship, bridge, and residency pages

What-they-do pages quote the What They Do and Important Qualities sections of the five BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook pages, checked November 10, 2026, with each page’s Last modified date (August 27, 2026 for occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants and aides, physical therapist assistants and aides, and speech-language pathologists; October 29, 2026 for physical therapists). Assistant and aide duty lists are kept separate as BLS publishes them; there is no SLPA duties page because BLS has no SLPA profile. The certification-vs-licensure page quotes NBCOT’s Get Certified, What is an OTR or COTA professional?, and After your exam pages, FSBPT’s NPTE page, ASHA’s Benefits of ASHA Certification and general information pages, the ASLP-IC FAQ, and BLS. The verify page links only official tools: NBCOT’s OTR and COTA credential verification, ASHA’s certification verification, FSBPT’s licensing authorities page, NBCOT’s state contact list, and ASHA’s state and territory information; no licensee data is copied. The Clinical Fellowship page quotes ASHA’s Guide to the ASHA Clinical Fellowship Experience. The after-the-exam page quotes NBCOT’s After your exam page, FSBPT’s Applying for State License and NPTE After Exam pages, and ASHA; it lists no processing times or fees. The PTA-to-PT page quotes CAPTE’s bridge-program and accredited-programs pages and names no schools. The PT residency page quotes the ABPTRFE homepage and For Participants page and links ABPTRFE’s directory; it names no programs and copies no wage or cost claims. OTA-to-OT and SLPA-to-SLP bridge pages were not published because the official ACOTE, NBCOT, and ASHA pages checked that day described those paths in a single sentence at most.

Supervision, retakes, application services, and telepractice pages

Supervision pages quote APTA’s House of Delegates position on direction and supervision of the physical therapist assistant (PDF last updated 10/26/2022), ASHA’s Scope of Practice for the SLPA and its Practice Portal page on SLPAs, and BLS and NBCOT sentences, all checked November 10, 2026. They are association positions and guidance, not state law, and list no state supervision rules. There is no OTA supervision page because AOTA’s pages returned an empty response to a plain read that day, and the NBCOT, ACOTE, and BLS pages describe OTA supervision only in passing. The retakes page quotes NBCOT’s Certification Exam Handbook (ID 40 rev092526), FSBPT’s Eligibility Requirements, Retake Exam, and Important Retake Information pages, and ASHA’s SLP exam and Assistants Certification Exam pages; it copies no exam or retest fees. The application-services page quotes APTA’s PTCAS page, the OTCAS and CSDCAS Quick Start Guides in their applicant help centers, and ASHA’s Planning Your Education in CSD page; it names no schools and lists no fees, deadlines, or processing times. The telepractice page quotes ASHA’s Practice Portal page on telepractice and APTA’s Digital Health in Practice page and lists no state telehealth rules. Travel-work and compact-endorsement pages were not published: the BLS Work Environment sections mention travel in single sentences, and the compact pages’ wording on non-member states is already quoted on the privilege-vs-license page.

Exam day, accommodations, fieldwork, observation hours, and moving pages

The exam-day page quotes NBCOT’s Schedule your exam page and Certification Exam Handbook, FSBPT’s Schedule Exam and NPTE Security pages, NPTE Candidate Handbook (version 2025.02), and Identification Information sheet, ASHA’s SLP and Assistants Certification Exam pages, and ETS’s general Praxis test-day page, all checked November 10, 2026. PSI’s candidate page did not render in a plain read, so no PSI wording is quoted. The accommodations page quotes NBCOT’s and FSBPT’s Testing Accommodations pages and handbooks, ETS’s Praxis disability accommodations page, and ASHA’s Assistants Certification Exam page; it gives no eligibility advice and copies no review times or fees. The fieldwork page quotes BLS, APTA’s becoming-a-PT and becoming-a-PTA pages, and ASHA’s 2020 and 2027 SLP certification standards; ACOTE’s students page did not describe Level I or Level II fieldwork and AOTA pages returned an empty response, so no OT hour total is given. The observation-hours page quotes APTA, BLS, and ASHA and gives no required-hour number. The moving page quotes the PT Compact eligibility checker, the ASLP-IC FAQ, and the OT Compact Practitioner FAQs. A limited-permit page was not published because the national pages checked mention temporary or limited permits only in passing.

Scores, early testing, lapsed certification, accreditation status, assistant vs aide, specialist, and international SLP pages

These pages were built from official pages read November 10, 2026. The scores page quotes NBCOT’s Certification Exam Handbook (ID 40 rev092526), After your exam, and Scoring pages, FSBPT’s After the Exam page and NPTE Candidate Handbook (version 2025.02), and ASHA’s SLP exam page; NBCOT’s handbook refers scoring questions to a separate document that was not read, so no NBCOT passing score is given, and NBCOT’s score calendar did not render, so no dates are copied. The early-testing page quotes NBCOT’s handbook, Degree Verification Form page, Scoring page, and Early Determination Review page; FSBPT and ASHA pages did not describe an equivalent program. The lapsed-certification page quotes NBCOT’s Lapsed Certification page and Renewal Handbook (ID 46 rev091126) and ASHA’s reinstatement, pathway, status, and 2027 standards pages; no fees are copied. The accreditation-status page quotes ACOTE’s Program Status Definitions, CAPTE’s Status & Action Definitions and Candidates for Accreditation pages, the CAA Accreditation Handbook (last revised August 2026) and homepage, and ASHA’s degree FAQ and 2027 standards. The assistant-vs-aide page quotes the BLS handbook pages for OT and PT assistants and aides, with assistant-only, aide-only, and combined pay labeled. The specialist page quotes the ABPTS Candidate Guide (2026 Fall/2027 Spring) and ABPTS and APTA pages. The international SLP page quotes ASHA’s international applicant and credential evaluation pages.

Registration, exam content, rescheduling, SLP specialty, direct access, schools, and certification CE pages

These pages were built from official pages read November 10, 2026. The registration page quotes NBCOT’s Certification Exam Handbook (ID 40 rev092526), Apply, and Schedule pages, FSBPT’s Registration Process page and online NPTE Candidate Handbook sections, and ASHA’s national examination, registration, and SLP exam pages; PSI’s candidate page did not render, so nothing is quoted from it. The exam-content page quotes NBCOT’s handbook and exam outline page, FSBPT’s NPTE Content page and the NPTE-PT and NPTE-PTA content outlines effective January 2024, ETS’s Praxis Speech-Language Pathology (5331) Study Companion, and ASHA’s preparation and national examinations pages. The rescheduling page quotes NBCOT’s handbook, FSBPT’s handbook section on rescheduling, withdrawing, and no-shows and its Schedule Exam and Dates and Deadlines pages, ETS’s Manage Your Praxis Test Appointment page, and ASHA’s registration page; no fees are copied. The SLP specialty page quotes ASHA’s Clinical Specialty Certification and establishing-a-specialty pages; AOTA returned no readable content, so no OT specialty list is given. The direct-access page quotes APTA’s direct access advocacy, by-state, and report pages and a dated May 2024 APTA news article. The schools page quotes the IDEA regulation at 34 CFR 300.34, the BLS handbook pages for OTs, PTs, and SLPs, APTA’s school-based physical therapy page, and ASHA’s schools, position statement, and employment settings pages. The certification-CE page quotes NBCOT’s Certification Renewal Handbook (ID 46 rev091126) and Renewal Activities Chart (ID 55 rev120424) and ASHA’s PDH, professional development requirements, and maintenance interval pages.

Ethics, work-setting, early intervention, and clinical instructor pages

These pages were built from official pages read November 10, 2026. The ethics page quotes APTA’s Code of Ethics for the Physical Therapy Profession (effective January 1, 2026) and the notices on its superseded PT code and PTA standards pages, ASHA’s Code of Ethics (effective March 1, 2023) and professional development requirements, and NBCOT’s Code of Conduct, enforcement procedures, and a Code of Conduct news item; AOTA’s ethics page and the AOTA 2025 Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics were read in a JavaScript-capable browser (plain fetches of aota.org returned no readable article); the page quotes AOTA’s statement of who the code covers and does not reprint its principles, core values, or standards. The home health, hospital, nursing home, and outpatient pages quote the BLS handbook pages for each role (employment shares only, no wages), APTA’s practice-setting pages, ASHA’s employment settings and health care career pages, and Medicare.gov coverage pages where they name physical therapy, occupational therapy, or speech-language pathology; no payment rates, costs, billing codes, staffing ratios, or productivity figures are copied. The early intervention page quotes the U.S. Department of Education’s IDEA Part C regulations at 34 CFR 303.1, 303.13, 303.21, 303.26, and 303.31, ASHA’s Early Intervention Practice Portal page, and BLS. The clinical instructor page quotes the 2023 ACOTE Standards and Interpretive Guide, CAPTE’s PT and PTA Standards and Required Elements, APTA’s Credentialed Clinical Instructor Program pages, NBCOT’s Renewal Activities Chart, ASHA’s 2020 SLP certification standards and clinical educator requirements, and the CAA’s accreditation standards; AOTA’s Fieldwork Educator Certificate Workshop URL returned AOTA’s Page Not Found page.

AOTA certification and fellowship, IEP and IFSP, compact comparison, inpatient rehabilitation, hospice, and PTA pathway pages

These pages were built from official pages read November 10, 2026. AOTA’s Advanced Certification hub, eligibility requirements, BCG, BCP, and BCPR landing pages, Fellowship Program page, ethics page, and the AOTA 2025 Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics (AJOT, doi 10.5014/ajot.2025.79S302) were read in a JavaScript-capable browser, because plain fetches of aota.org returned no readable article; AOTA’s FAQ, practitioner lists, application, fee, potential-fellow, and policy pages were not opened. The IEP and IFSP page quotes the U.S. Department of Education’s IDEA regulations at 34 CFR 300.22, 300.34, 300.124, 300.320, 300.321, 300.323, 300.324, 303.20, 303.342, 303.343, and 303.344, cross-checked on eCFR, and ASHA’s IEP page. The compact comparison quotes the OT Compact, PT Compact, and ASLP-IC sites, re-read the same day; it lists no member states, counts, or fees. The inpatient rehabilitation page quotes Medicare.gov, 42 CFR 412.622 on eCFR, CMS’s IRF page, and ASHA. The hospice page quotes Medicare.gov, 42 CFR 418.202, 418.64, and 418.72 on eCFR, APTA, and ASHA. The PTA pathway page quotes APTA’s two PTA Advanced Proficiency Pathways pages. BLS handbook pages were re-read and have no separate inpatient rehabilitation or hospice industry line. No payment rates, patient costs, fees, caseload numbers, or staffing figures are copied.

HIPAA, Section 504, NPI, Medicare therapy, and entry-level degree pages

These pages were built from official pages read November 10, 2026, with plain fetches; nothing on them comes from aota.org. The HIPAA page quotes HHS’s HIPAA for Professionals, covered entities, Privacy Rule, Security Rule, rule summary, and FERPA and HIPAA pages, and ASHA’s HIPAA page; it copies no penalty amounts and does not say whether any practice is covered. The Section 504 page quotes the U.S. Department of Education’s Section 504 page and Section 504 and FAPE FAQ (last reviewed June 30, 2025), OCR’s December 2016 parent and educator resource guide, 34 CFR 104.33 and 104.35 on eCFR, and ASHA’s IEP and 504 page; the older www2.ed.gov FAQ address returned a not-found page. The NPI page quotes CMS’s NPI Standard and How to Apply pages, the CMS-10114 form (Rev. 07/2026), 45 CFR 162.406 and 162.410 on eCFR, and APTA; NPPES did not render in a plain read, ASHA’s NPI address returned a not-found page, and no CMS page read stated whether there is a fee. The plan-of-care, maintenance, and students pages quote the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, Chapter 15 (table of contents Rev. 13889), 42 CFR 410.61 on eCFR, CMS’s Jimmo Settlement page, FAQs, and fact sheet, and the MDS 3.0 RAI User’s Manual v1.20.11 (October 2026); outpatient Part B and SNF Part A student rules are quoted separately and not reconciled. The entry-level degrees page quotes ACOTE’s Student Resources page, About CAPTE, APTA’s becoming-a-PT and becoming-a-PTA pages, the CAA homepage, and ASHA’s student and SLPA education pathway pages; it names no schools and adds no program lengths of its own; where an official page names a length, that wording is quoted. No payment rates, fees, penalty amounts, or caseload numbers are copied.

FERPA, good faith estimate, PSLF, credentials, private practice, mental health, and Medicare documentation pages

These pages were built from official pages read November 10, 2026, with plain fetches; nothing on them comes from aota.org, whose private-practice and mental health addresses returned empty responses. The FERPA page quotes 34 CFR 99.3, 99.10, 99.30, and 99.31 on eCFR, StudentPrivacy.ed.gov’s FERPA regulations page and parent guide, and the December 2019 joint FERPA and HIPAA guidance posted by HHS and by StudentPrivacy.ed.gov; an ASHA FERPA address returned a not-found page. The good faith estimate page quotes CMS’s consumer guide and No Surprises Act overview page, 45 CFR 149.610 on eCFR, and ASHA’s private-practice page; it copies no dollar thresholds, penalties, or sample-form figures, and CMS’s model notices and FAQs were not opened. The PSLF page quotes the PSLF and TEPSLF Certification and Application form (OMB No. 1845-0110) from StudentAid.gov; StudentAid.gov’s PSLF web pages are linked but were not quoted; it gives no loan or payment figures and does not say whether any employer qualifies. The credentials page quotes NBCOT’s Voice a Concern page, Renewal Handbook, OTR and COTA page, and Terms and Conditions; APTA’s Appropriate Use of Designations page and Consumer Protection Through Licensure position (HOD P07-25-59-04), whose first-designation wording differs and is quoted side by side; and ASHA’s logo, SLPA application, assistants policies, and SLP certification FAQ pages; it states no state license designation rules. The private-practice page quotes Chapter 15 section 230.4 of the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual (Rev. 179) and 42 CFR 410.59, 410.60, and 410.62 on eCFR, whose supervision wording differs and is quoted side by side, plus APTA, APTA Private Practice, and ASHA. The mental health page quotes BLS’s occupational therapists page, APTA’s behavioral and mental health position (HOD P07-25-49-19) and anxiety screening page, and ASHA’s counseling Practice Portal page, each for its own profession. The Medicare documentation page quotes Chapter 15 section 220.3 (Rev. 255), including two functional-reporting lines that are quoted and not reconciled. No payment rates, fees, penalty amounts, loan figures, or caseload numbers are copied.

ADA, ABN, VA, hand therapy, loan repayment, Medicare appeals, and Section 1557 pages

These pages were built from official pages read November 10, 2026, with plain fetches; nothing on them comes from aota.org. The ADA page quotes ADA.gov’s medical care and effective communication guidance and 28 CFR 36.104 and 36.303 on eCFR; it does not apply the ADA to any clinic. The ABN page quotes CMS’s ABN page and form instructions and Medicare.gov’s outpatient therapy fact sheet and protections page; the Claims Processing Manual chapter CMS cites was not opened, and no cost figures are copied. The VA page quotes VA Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Services patient-care pages for OT, PT, and speech-language pathology, each separately; it copies no pay, staffing counts, or job listings. The hand therapy page quotes the Hand Therapy Certification Commission’s own pages, including the hour and year requirements HTCC states; HTCC’s fees and passing rates are not copied. The loan repayment page quotes HRSA’s overview and NHSC Loan Repayment Program pages, whose eligible-discipline list does not include OT, PT, or SLP, and the Indian Health Service’s LRP pages, which list physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology and audiology; no award amounts or state programs are included. The Medicare appeals page quotes Medicare.gov and CMS, whose first-level deadline wording differs and is quoted side by side; the minimum dollar amounts are not copied. The Section 1557 page quotes HHS OCR’s providers page and selected sections of 45 CFR Part 92; OCR’s Section 1557 page did not return its content to a scripted read and is linked, not quoted; the final rule as published in the Federal Register (89 FR 37522, May 6, 2024) is linked beside it as a backup. No fees, payment rates, penalty amounts, award amounts, or pay are copied.

Medicare enrollment, group therapy, EPSDT, TRICARE, telehealth, military spouse, and mandated reporting pages

These pages were built from official pages read November 10, 2026. Most were read with plain fetches; the TRICARE pages needed a page-rendering fetch, as noted below. Nothing on them comes from aota.org. The Medicare enrollment page quotes CMS’s enrollment guide and Chapter 10 of the Medicare Program Integrity Manual, including its list of those not eligible to enroll, which names occupational therapist assistants and physical therapist assistants; it makes no claim about SLPAs, and no application fee amounts are copied. The group therapy page quotes Chapter 15 of the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual for Part B group therapy and Section O of the MDS 3.0 RAI Manual for SNF therapy modes, side by side; no payment amounts or billing codes are copied. The EPSDT page quotes Medicaid.gov, CMS’s May 2026 EPSDT guide for states, and SHO letter 24-005; it does not describe any state’s coverage. The TRICARE page quotes TRICARE’s beneficiary coverage pages for occupational, physical, and speech therapy, each separately; those pages returned a bot-check page to a plain scripted read and were read with a page-rendering fetch, and no costs are copied. The Medicare telehealth page quotes CMS’s Telehealth page and October 2026 Telehealth FAQ and Medicare.gov’s telehealth page; it lists no covered codes and is separate from the telepractice page’s practice standards. The military spouse page quotes 50 U.S.C. 4025a, the Justice Department, Military OneSource, and the OT Compact, PT Compact, and ASLP-IC documents on active-duty members and spouses; the Justice Department’s and Military OneSource’s wording is left side by side, and no fees or state lists are included. The mandated reporting page quotes Child Welfare Information Gateway, 45 CFR 1324.401, ACL, HHS, and the Justice Department; it says state law decides who must report and includes no state table or penalty amounts.

Medicare Advantage appeals, Medicare opt-out, ADA/504/IDEA, bloodborne pathogens, safe patient handling, ATP, and Medicare home health pages

These pages were built from official pages and PDFs read November 10, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent; nothing on them comes from aota.org. The Medicare Advantage appeals page quotes Medicare.gov’s page on appeals in Medicare health plans and CMS’s managed care appeals page and July 2026 Parts C & D guidance; CMS posts that guidance PDF on cms.gov, and the PDF’s footer says the information is not releasable to the public unless authorized by law, so this page quotes only short passages from that file; Medicare.gov’s level 3 instructions mention a Qualified Independent Contractor while its level 2 section names an Independent Review Entity, and both are quoted as written; no minimum dollar amounts are copied. The opt-out page quotes CMS’s Manage Your Enrollment page, Chapter 15 of the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, and 42 CFR 405.400; CMS’s page lists occupational therapists, physical therapists, qualified audiologists, and qualified speech language pathologists as not eligible to opt out, Chapter 15 names physical therapists and occupational therapists in independent practice, and Chapter 15’s older practitioner list is left beside the longer CMS and eCFR lists. The ADA, Section 504, and IDEA page quotes ADA.gov’s Guide to Disability Rights Laws and the Department of Education’s Section 504 FAQ and family FAQ; it does not reuse quotes from this site’s other pages as a comparison and has no table of its own. The bloodborne pathogens page quotes 29 CFR 1910.1030 and OSHA’s pages and fact sheet; the standard’s “10 working days” and the fact sheet’s “10 days” are left side by side, and no penalty amounts are copied. The safe patient handling page quotes OSHA and NIOSH; its one injury figure is OSHA’s dated 2017 statement, no cost or penalty figures are copied, and the older NIOSH address redirects to the page linked. The ATP page quotes RESNA’s ATP, eligibility, exam, and FAQ pages and its July 2026 Candidate Handbook, including the handbook’s Implementer Route list of job titles; that list names Occupational Therapist Assistant, Physical Therapist Assistant, and SLP Assistant, while RESNA’s eligibility, FAQ, and exam web pages do not; RESNA’s hours table and its FAQ’s “two years” wording are left side by side, and no fees or exam statistics are copied. The Medicare home health page quotes Chapter 7 of the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual and 42 CFR 409.44; the manual’s “30 days” and the regulation’s “30 calendar days” are left side by side, and no payment rates are copied. A planned occupational health work-setting page was not built: the national pages read that day (BLS, OSHA, NIOSH, and APTA) did not support a distinct setting page for all three professions. The TRICARE speech therapy page was read again the same day with a page-rendering fetch; its first requirement sentence, which begins with a glossary term (“referral”) shown as a button, now came through in full and is quoted whole.

Medicare SNF, Medicare IRF, KX modifier, SMS, AAC, lymphedema, and HIPAA breach notification pages

These pages were built from official pages and PDFs read November 10, 2026. Most were read with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent; LANA’s web pages are a JavaScript app and were read with a page-rendering fetch, and LANA’s PDFs with plain fetches. Nothing on them comes from aota.org. The Medicare SNF page quotes Chapter 8 of the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, 42 CFR 409.34 and 483.65, CMS’s PDPM page, and CMS’s 2019 PDPM fact sheet on the concurrent and group therapy limit (a ZIP file holding two copies of the PDF: an accessible copy marked “Last Revised: 2-14-19”, which is the copy quoted, and a redline copy marked “Last Revised: 8-27-19”); the manual’s daily-basis wording and the regulation’s are left side by side, and only CMS rules not already on the nursing home setting page are quoted. The Chapter 8 address in the pattern used for other chapters returned a not-found page; the page links the address on CMS’s list of manual chapters. The Medicare IRF page quotes Chapter 1, section 110, 42 CFR 412.29, and CMS’s IRF-PAI page; the manual’s 15-hours-in-7-days wording is set beside the regulation’s per-week wording, and the criteria already on the inpatient rehab setting page are not repeated. The KX modifier page quotes CMS’s Therapy Services page, Chapter 5 of the Medicare Claims Processing Manual, and Chapter 15 of the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual; CMS publishes the KX and medical review threshold amounts each year, and none of those amounts are copied. Chapter 5’s KX section still uses older cap-and-exception wording, which is quoted as written. The SMS page quotes RESNA’s SMS, eligibility, exam, and disclosure guideline pages and the SMS application appendix PDF; RESNA’s main SMS page names clinicians, suppliers, and engineers, and the disclosure guidelines name PT, OT, and SLP; the web page’s activity names and the appendix’s category names are left side by side, and no fees are copied. The AAC page quotes ASHA’s Practice Portal and public AAC pages and the IDEA regulations at 34 CFR 300.5, 300.6, 300.105, and 300.324 on the Department of Education’s IDEA site; it describes occupational and physical therapists only as ASHA does and names no products. The lymphedema page quotes LANA’s Get Certified, FAQ, and recertification pages, its 2022 Candidate Information Booklet, and its eligibility flyer; the three wordings of the massage therapist title and of the license requirement are left side by side, and the end-of-year expiration is described in this site’s words. No speech-language pathology title appears in the eligible-profession lists in any of those five LANA sources. The HIPAA breach notification page quotes HHS’s Breach Notification Rule page, its breach reporting page, and 45 CFR Part 164, Subpart D; the two pages’ wording of the 60-day deadline is left side by side, and no penalty or settlement amounts are copied.

IDEA Child Find, CDRS, fall prevention, dysphagia, and workplace violence pages

These pages were built from official pages and PDFs read November 11, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent, except ADED’s CDRS exam page, which blocked plain fetches; it is linked for current dates and fees but not quoted. Nothing on them comes from aota.org. The IDEA Child Find page quotes 34 CFR 300.111, 300.131, and 300.301 (Part B) and 34 CFR 303.302 and 303.303 (Part C) on the Department of Education’s IDEA site; it does not describe any state’s procedures. The CDRS page quotes only ADED’s 2025 Candidate Handbook, read in full; ADED’s 2026 windows have closed and a 2027 handbook is due in early 2027, the end of the three-year certification period is described in this site’s words, and no fees are copied. The fall prevention page quotes CDC’s STEADI home and About pages and the STEADI algorithm PDF, and repeats only the algorithm items that name therapy. The dysphagia page quotes ASHA’s adult and pediatric Practice Portal pages and its public page on swallowing disorders in adults; it describes occupational and physical therapists only as ASHA does and names no products. The workplace violence page quotes OSHA’s workplace violence and healthcare workplace violence pages and OSHA 3148, its advisory guidelines for healthcare and social service workers.

Wheelchair coverage, FECA, concussion, stroke rehabilitation, autism, and health care worker certificate pages

These pages were built from official pages and PDFs read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. Nothing on them comes from aota.org. The wheelchair coverage page quotes Medicare.gov, 42 CFR 410.38, NCD 280.3, and LCD L33789 as published by CGS Administrators, LLC (DME MAC Jurisdiction B) in the revision listed as effective for services on or after 12/20/2026; it copies no payment amounts. The FECA page quotes DOL’s provider pages and PDF, 20 CFR Part 10, Subpart D, and FECA Procedure Manual Part 2; it copies no fee schedule amounts and does not cover state workers’ compensation. The concussion page quotes CDC’s HEADS UP recovery page, the Pediatric mTBI Guideline management handout, and CDC’s school letter, and shows their different recovery-time wording side by side. The stroke rehabilitation page quotes the NINDS Stroke Recovery page and names no devices. The autism page quotes CDC’s ASD treatment page and its early intervention page. The health care worker certificate page quotes 8 CFR 212.15 and USCIS’s Health Care Worker Certification page, shows the regulation’s “pending final adjudication” wording for NBCOT and FCCPT beside USCIS’s wording, and copies no fees; audiology careers are not covered.

Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, ALS, spinal cord injury, aphasia, and stuttering pages

These pages were built from NINDS and NIDCD (both part of NIH) pages read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. Nothing on them comes from aota.org. Each page quotes one official page and repeats only what it says about physical, occupational, or speech-language therapy and the symptoms those therapies address; medicine and surgery sections are not repeated. Where a page says a source does not name a profession, that statement covers only the one page read. The NIDCD stuttering page was last updated March 6, 2017, and is labeled as older. NINDS and NIDCD sometimes say “speech therapy” or “speech therapists”; the pages show that wording as written.

Traumatic brain injury, arthritis, hip replacement, low back pain, voice disorder, and pressure ulcer pages

These pages were built from NINDS, NIAMS, NCCIH, NIDCD (all part of NIH), and AHRQ pages read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. Nothing on them comes from aota.org. Each page repeats only what its sources say about physical, occupational, or speech-language therapy, the care team, and the symptoms or tasks those therapies address; medicine and surgery sections are not repeated. Where a page says a source does not name a profession, that statement covers only the page read. Several sources are older and are labeled that way: NIDCD’s hoarseness and vocal fold paralysis pages (last updated March 6, 2017), its spasmodic dysphonia page (June 18, 2020), NCCIH’s low-back pain page (January 2020), and AHRQ’s pressure ulcer toolkit chapter (content last reviewed October 2014). The low back pain page repeats NCCIH’s summary of a 2017 American College of Physicians guideline; the guideline itself was not read. A NIAMS knee replacement page and an NCI cancer rehabilitation page were not found at the addresses tried, so neither topic has a page.

Osteoporosis, carpal tunnel, balance disorder, cancer lymphedema, apraxia of speech, and Medicaid school-based services pages

These pages were built from NIAMS, NIDCD, NCI (all part of NIH), and CMS sources read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. Nothing on them comes from aota.org. Each page repeats only what its source says about physical, occupational, or speech-language therapy, the care team, and the tasks those therapies address; medicine and surgery sections are not repeated. Where a page says a source does not name something, that statement covers only the page read. NINDS’s carpal tunnel page returned an access-denied response to a plain fetch and is not quoted. NIDCD’s balance disorders page (last updated March 6, 2018) and apraxia of speech page (last updated October 31, 2017) are labeled as older. The Medicaid school-based services page quotes CMS’s 2023 guide (a PDF read in full as text); one example that runs across a page break is paraphrased, and no payment rates or state plans are described. CDC’s developmental milestones page was read but not used, because it is a list of checklists that does not describe therapy, and early intervention is already covered.

Down syndrome, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida, limb loss, and pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation pages

These pages were built from NICHD, NINDS, NHLBI, MedlinePlus (all part of NIH), CDC, the VA, Medicare.gov, and eCFR pages read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. Nothing on them comes from aota.org. Each page repeats only what its sources say about physical, occupational, or speech therapy, the care team, and related coverage rules; medicine and surgery sections are not repeated, and no costs are copied. Where a page says a source does not name a profession or word, that statement covers only the pages read. NINDS’s muscular dystrophy page has a typo in its passive-stretching sentence, so that sentence is paraphrased. NHLBI’s pulmonary rehabilitation page (last updated March 24, 2022) is labeled as older, and no NHLBI cardiac rehabilitation page was found at the addresses tried. A dementia page was not built because the NIA pages read do not describe therapy roles.

Guillain-Barré syndrome, Huntington’s disease, dystonia, tremor, peripheral neuropathy, and cleft lip and palate pages

These pages were built from NINDS and NIDCR (both part of NIH) and CDC pages read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. Nothing on them comes from aota.org. Each page repeats only what its sources say about physical, occupational, or speech therapy, the care team, and daily-living aids; medicine and surgery sections are not repeated. Where a page says a source does not name a profession, that statement covers only the page read. NINDS’s essential tremor address opens its general tremor page, so the tips quoted are labeled as covering tremor in general. NIDCR’s cleft page was last reviewed December 2024. NIAMS’s shoulder problems address returned a not-found page, and its scoliosis, lupus, and fibromyalgia overview pages read do not name physical, occupational, or speech therapy, so no pages were built from them.

Sports injuries, rotator cuff, and plantar fasciitis pages

These pages were built from NIAMS and MedlinePlus (both part of NIH) pages read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. Nothing on them comes from aota.org. Each page repeats only what its source says about physical therapy, rehabilitation, splints, and orthotics; medicine names and time ranges are not repeated. MedlinePlus’s Foot Injuries and Disorders page was read but is mostly a list of links, so no page was built from it.

Speech-language pathology pages: DLD, speech sound disorders, dysarthria, selective mutism, laryngectomy, and speech generating devices

These pages were built from NIDCD and MedlinePlus (both part of NIH), ASHA’s Practice Portal, and CMS’s Medicare Coverage Database, read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. ASHA Practice Portal quotes stop before ASHA’s in-text research citations, and sentences that would need a citation inside the quote are paraphrased and labeled. The Medicare page copies no costs. Where a page says a source does not name a profession, that statement covers only the page read. A dyslexia page was not built: NINDS’s dyslexia address opened its glossary, NICHD’s learning disabilities treatment address returned a not-found page, and NICHD’s reading disorders treatment page read does not name speech-language pathologists.

Speech topics hub, and social communication, resonance, dementia, right hemisphere disorder, and cerebral palsy pages

The speech-language pathology topics page is a list of links to every SLP-related page on the site and quotes nothing. The four SLP pages were built from ASHA Practice Portal pages, and the cerebral palsy page from NINDS (part of NIH), read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. ASHA quotes stop before ASHA’s in-text research citations, and list items that would need a citation or ran long are paraphrased and labeled. NINDS’s cerebral palsy mobility-device sentence has a typo, so it is paraphrased.

Written and spoken language disorders, late language emergence, deaf and hard of hearing children, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth pages

The four SLP pages were built from ASHA Practice Portal pages, and the Charcot-Marie-Tooth page from NINDS (part of NIH), read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. ASHA quotes stop before ASHA’s in-text research citations, and sentences that carry a citation are paraphrased and labeled. The deaf and hard of hearing page repeats ASHA’s SLP roles only, not its audiology roles. Pediatric feeding was not given its own page because the swallowing disorders page already quotes ASHA’s pediatric feeding and swallowing page, and a pediatric voice page was not built because ASHA’s voice disorders page read is not specific to children.

Orofacial myofunctional disorders, pediatric TBI, scoliosis, fibromyalgia, and juvenile idiopathic arthritis pages

The two SLP pages were built from ASHA Practice Portal pages, and the three OT/PT pages from NIAMS (part of NIH) overview and diagnosis-and-treatment pages, read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. ASHA quotes stop before ASHA’s in-text research citations, and sentences that carry a citation are paraphrased and labeled. Where a page says a source does not name a profession, that statement covers only the pages read. ASHA’s primary progressive aphasia address returned a not-found page, so no page was built for it.

Knee replacement, developmental coordination disorder, Ehlers-Danlos, gender affirming voice, and head and neck cancer pages

The three OT/PT pages were built from MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia articles (part of NIH), and the two SLP pages from ASHA Practice Portal pages, read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. NIAMS’s knee replacement address returned a not-found page, so the knee page uses MedlinePlus. ASHA quotes stop before ASHA’s in-text research citations, and long list items are paraphrased and labeled. The head and neck cancer page repeats ASHA’s SLP roles only, with no audiology content. Where a page says a source does not name a profession, that statement covers only the article read.

POTS, frozen shoulder, wrist fracture, tracheostomy and ventilator, and inducible laryngeal obstruction pages

The POTS page was built from the NINDS page, the frozen shoulder and wrist fracture pages from MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia articles (part of NIH), and the two SLP pages from ASHA Practice Portal pages, all read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. NIAMS bursitis and tendinitis addresses redirected to its sports injuries page, which this site already quotes, so no separate page was built. One MedlinePlus address tried for a hand fracture opened a different article and was not used. For developmental coordination disorder, the NINDS developmental dyspraxia address redirected to the same MedlinePlus article already quoted, and none of the other official pages checked named occupational or physical therapy for it, so that page was left unchanged. ASHA quotes stop before ASHA’s in-text research citations, and long list items are paraphrased and labeled. Where a page says a source does not name a profession, that statement covers only the page read.

Refractory chronic cough, executive function, intellectual disability, accent modification, and tennis elbow pages

The four SLP pages were built from ASHA Practice Portal pages and the tennis elbow page from a MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia article (part of NIH), all read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. ASHA’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit page covers audiology and speech-language pathology services together, so no page was built from it. ASHA’s Aerodigestive Disorders page overlaps pages this site already has on dysphagia, voice, tracheostomy, and inducible laryngeal obstruction, so no page was built from it. ASHA quotes stop before ASHA’s in-text research citations, and long list items are paraphrased and labeled. Where a page says a source does not name a profession, that statement covers only the page read.

SLP certification maintenance and state license renewal pages

The ASHA CCC-SLP maintenance page was built from three ASHA certification pages, and the SLP state renewal pages from official board pages, administrative rules, or statutes for Texas, Florida, Washington, Virginia, Minnesota, and Ohio, all read November 12, 2026, with plain fetches using a Chrome user agent. Continuing education hours and cycles are quoted only where they appear on a page read in full; anything else is paraphrased and labeled. No fees or dues are copied. New York’s board pages did not respond, California’s continuing education address returned a not-found page, Georgia’s board page refused the request, and Ohio’s board site did not respond, so Ohio is covered from its administrative rule. Washington’s page names WAC 246-828-510, which this site did not read. These pages cover the speech-language pathologist license only, with no audiology track.

SLP state board directory and more state renewal pages

The SLP board directory was built from ASHA’s State and Territory Information pages for all 56 jurisdictions, read November 12, 2026. Each board link ASHA lists was then fetched in full; a board is listed only if its own page loaded and named speech-language pathology, and other jurisdictions are marked Not yet verified. Plain http links were retried over https. ASLP-IC status comes from the official compact map at aslpcompact.gov, which the compact’s former address now redirects to. The California, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Colorado renewal pages were built from the California board’s own pages, the Pennsylvania Code, the North Carolina board’s continuing education page, the Kentucky Administrative Regulations, and Colorado’s CPC page. Colorado’s page does not state the length of its certification period.

Board directory recheck and five more state renewal pages

On November 12, 2026, the 14 jurisdictions first marked Not yet verified were retried through other official routes, such as a state’s main licensing portal, health department, or licensing office site. Seven were then verified from their own pages: Missouri, New York, Tennessee, Rhode Island, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. The New York and Missouri sites do not send their full certificate chain; they were fetched with full certificate checking after adding the issuing certificate authority’s own published intermediate certificate, and no certificate errors were bypassed. Alaska, Georgia, Mississippi, Ohio, and New Jersey sites refused requests, returned not-found pages, or required a script to load, and no official licensing page was found for American Samoa or the U.S. Virgin Islands SLP board, so those stay Not yet verified. The ASLP-IC page was rechecked against aslpcompact.gov on the same date. The New York, Tennessee, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin renewal pages were built from New York’s Office of the Professions pages, Tennessee’s board page, Michigan’s administrative rules, the copy of 260 CMR 7.00 posted on mass.gov, and Wisconsin’s administrative code and licensing department page. Georgia’s sites again refused requests, so no page was built for Georgia.

Five more state renewal pages: Illinois, Maryland, Indiana, South Carolina, Oregon

The Illinois General Assembly site does not send its full certificate chain. On November 12, 2026 its missing intermediate certificate was obtained from the certificate authority’s public certificate log, checked to chain to a trusted root, and the rules were then fetched with full certificate and hostname checking; no certificate errors were bypassed. The Illinois, Maryland, Indiana, South Carolina, and Oregon renewal pages were built from the Illinois Administrative Code, the Code of Maryland Regulations, Indiana’s Professional Licensing Agency page, South Carolina’s board pages and Regulation 115-6, and Oregon’s board page. Oregon’s rules site did not load without a script, so the Oregon page quotes only the board page. The ASLP-IC privilege page was rechecked against aslpcompact.gov on the same date. No new official route was found for the seven board directory entries still marked Not yet verified.

Five more state renewal pages: Iowa, Alabama, Utah, Oklahoma, New Hampshire

On November 12, 2026, the Iowa, Alabama, Utah, Oklahoma, and New Hampshire renewal pages were built from the Iowa Administrative Code on the Iowa Legislature site, the Alabama board’s continuing education page and posted administrative code, Utah’s Division of Professional Licensing renewal page and renewal form, the Oklahoma board’s posted rules and renewals page, and New Hampshire’s statute and licensing office continuing education page. Utah’s administrative rules site did not return the rule itself, so the Utah page quotes DOPL’s own pages. Kansas and Nebraska were checked but not built: Kansas’s rules site needed a script to load, and Nebraska’s department page links its rules only through a script-based site.

Five more state renewal pages: Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, Louisiana, Delaware

On November 12, 2026, the Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Delaware renewal pages were built from the Nevada Administrative Code on the Nevada Legislature site, Idaho’s administrative rules PDF, the New Mexico Administrative Code on the State Records Center and Archives site, the Louisiana board’s rules, continuing education, and renewal pages, and the Delaware Division of Professional Regulation’s continuing education and renewal pages. Delaware’s board rules were not read; that page quotes the division’s own pages. Hawaii was checked but not built: the rule chapter read did not set out a continuing education requirement, and the statute was not read. Arizona, Vermont, Arkansas, Maine, Connecticut, Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota were also tried; none returned a full official page from the addresses tried. South Dakota’s rules site needed a script to load, and the West Virginia board’s approved continuing education page read did not state the required hours. No new official route was found for the seven board directory entries still marked Not yet verified.

OT and PT state renewal pages: Virginia, Washington, Florida, New York

On November 12, 2026, two new hubs, OT license renewal by state and PT license renewal by state, were started with four states each. Before building them, the renewal, certification CE, and expired-certification pages and the homepage board table were checked: they quote NBCOT, ASHA, and compact sources but did not give state OT or PT license CE hours. The Virginia pages quote the Virginia Administrative Code on the Virginia Law site; the Washington pages quote the Washington Administrative Code on the Legislature site; the Florida pages quote the Florida Boards of Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy renewal pages; and the New York pages quote the Office of the Professions pages, Part 76 of the Commissioner’s Regulations, and Education Law § 6742-a. Each state page says whether its source covers assistants. Texas, California, North Carolina, and Ohio were tried, but the addresses tried did not return the board or rule text, so they were not built. The SLP state list is paused at thirty-one states.

More OT and PT state renewal pages: Texas, California, Minnesota, Illinois, Pennsylvania

On November 12, 2026, four states were added to each hub. OT: Texas (the Texas Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners continuing education and renewal pages), California (the Board of Occupational Therapy continuing competency page), Minnesota (Minnesota Statutes 148.6443), and Illinois (68 Ill. Adm. Code 1315.145 and 1315.140). PT: Texas (the Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners continuing competence page), California (the Physical Therapy Board of California continuing competency page), Illinois (68 Ill. Adm. Code 1340.61), and Pennsylvania (49 Pa. Code § 40.67, which covers physical therapists only). The Texas and California pages quote the boards’ own pages; the underlying rule chapters were not read. Ohio’s rule site did not return the chapters tried, North Carolina’s addresses tried returned a not-found page, and Maryland’s regulation site asks readers not to scrape it, so those were not built. The homepage table legend was also updated on this date to point to the state renewal pages.

More OT and PT state renewal pages: Wisconsin, Oregon, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri

On November 12, 2026, four more states were added to each hub. OT: Wisconsin (Wis. Admin. Code ch. OT 3), Oregon (the Occupational Therapy Licensing Board continuing education page), North Carolina (the Board of Occupational Therapy online renewal and continuing competence pages), and Pennsylvania (49 Pa. Code § 42.53). PT: Wisconsin (Wis. Admin. Code ch. PT 9), South Carolina (the Board of Physical Therapy Examiners renewal page), Kentucky (201 KAR 22:045), and Missouri (20 CSR 2150-3.201). Year-end dates are paraphrased rather than quoted. Ohio’s administrative code site returned no rule for the numbers tried; Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and some Oregon, Missouri, and North Carolina addresses tried returned a not-found page or no response; Connecticut’s statute site did not respond; Arizona’s PT board site refused the request; the Indiana, South Carolina OT, and Kentucky OT pages read did not state the hours; the Missouri OT rule chapters read did not state the hours; and the Oregon PT board page ties its hours to license effective-date tables, so those were not built. Maryland’s regulation site still asks readers not to scrape it.

More OT, PT, and SLP state renewal pages: Nevada, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Missouri, Nebraska

On November 12, 2026, four more states were added to each of the OT and PT hubs: Nevada (Nevada Administrative Code chapters 640A and 640 on the Nevada Legislature site), Idaho (IDAPA 24.06.01 and 24.13.01 on the Idaho administrative rules site), Colorado (the Division of Professions and Occupations occupational therapy and physical therapy CPC pages), and New Mexico (16.15.4 NMAC and 16.20.8 NMAC on the State Records Center and Archives site). Two SLP state pages were added: Missouri (20 CSR 2150-4) and Nebraska (the Department of Health and Human Services licensure page, which states the hours directly). The Pennsylvania PT page now also quotes 49 Pa. Code § 40.192, which covers certified physical therapist assistants. Year-end dates are paraphrased rather than quoted. Arizona’s administrative code site and Kansas’s health department page refused the request, the New Jersey regulation addresses tried returned a not-found or empty page, and Montana’s board address tried returned a not-found page, so those were not built. Maryland’s regulation site still asks readers not to scrape it.

More OT, PT, and SLP state renewal pages: Iowa, Utah, Alabama, New Hampshire, Michigan, West Virginia, Rhode Island

On November 12, 2026, four more states were added to each of the OT and PT hubs. OT: Iowa (481 IAC chapter 805), Utah (the Division of Professional Licensing renewal page), Alabama (the board’s administrative code chapter 625-X-5 and continuing education page), and New Hampshire (Occ 402 and Occ 406 on the New Hampshire General Court rules site). PT: Iowa (481 IAC chapter 803), Michigan (R 338.7161 and R 338.7163), Utah (the Division of Professional Licensing renewal page), and Alabama (the board’s continuing education page). Two SLP state pages were added: West Virginia (29CSR1 on the board’s legislative rules page) and Rhode Island (216-RICR-40-05-33). Year-end dates are paraphrased rather than quoted. Georgia’s rules and board sites refused the request; Kansas’s board site returned no readable text and the Kansas regulation addresses tried returned a not-found page; Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Louisiana OT addresses tried returned a not-found page; the Louisiana PT page read did not state the hours; the Massachusetts allied health pages read did not state the hours; Michigan OT rule file names tried did not resolve; and the Indiana PT board page read earlier did not state the hours. For SLP, Hawaii’s rules read do not set continuing education, and the Vermont, Maine, Wyoming, Arkansas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, and Connecticut addresses tried returned a not-found page, refused the request, or did not respond. Maryland’s regulation site still asks readers not to scrape it.

More OT and PT state renewal pages, and three more SLP board rows

On November 12, 2026, seven OT states and four PT states were added, using state rule and code sites. OT: Tennessee (rule chapter 1150-02 from the Tennessee Secretary of State), South Dakota (rule chapter 20:64:04 on the South Dakota Legislature site), North Dakota (chapter 55.5-02-01 on the North Dakota Legislative Branch site), Kentucky (201 KAR 28:200 on the Kentucky General Assembly site), Louisiana (Title 46, Part XLV of the Louisiana Administrative Code, from the Office of the State Register), Massachusetts (259 CMR 7.00 on mass.gov), and South Carolina (Code section 40-36-260 and regulation chapter 94 on the South Carolina Legislature site). PT: Tennessee (chapter 1150-01), South Dakota (chapter 20:66:03), North Dakota (chapter 61.5-03-01), and Massachusetts (259 CMR 7.00). Year-end dates are paraphrased rather than quoted. Not built: the New Hampshire PT rule address tried returned a not-found page and the rules index refused the request; the Michigan OT rule file name tried returned an error; the Oklahoma rules site and the Wyoming OT board site did not respond; the Indiana administrative code address tried returned a page with no rule text; Arizona’s rule PDFs refused the request; and Montana’s board page read does not state the hours. Michigan OT, Oklahoma, Indiana PT, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, New Hampshire PT, and Georgia remain unbuilt.

On the same date, three SLP board directory rows were verified from official legal texts: Alaska (Alaska Statutes 08.11 on the Alaska Legislature site, which name the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development as the licensing department), Mississippi (the State Department of Health’s speech-language pathology licensure regulations), and Ohio (Ohio Revised Code chapter 4753, which names the state speech and hearing professionals board). Georgia’s site again refused the request, New Jersey’s consumer affairs site returned empty pages, the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Health pages read do not name speech-language pathology, and no licensing page was found for American Samoa, so those four stay Not yet verified.

Gap pages: CE by state, documentation software, travel work, assistive technology, federal jobs

On November 12, 2026, five pages were added to fill gaps found in a site audit. The CE requirements by state table is generated from this site’s own OT, PT, and SLP hub summaries and links each state page; its national notes quote NBCOT’s certification renewal page and ASHA’s certification maintenance page. The documentation software page quotes HHS guidance on business associates, cloud computing, and the Security Rule, and HealthIT.gov pages on health IT certification and information blocking. The travel page quotes chapter 1 of IRS Publication 463 as posted on IRS.gov. The assistive technology page quotes the Administration for Community Living’s assistive technology page and IDEA regulations 34 CFR 300.5 and 300.6. The federal jobs page summarizes OPM qualification standards for series 0631, 0633, 0665, and 0636. A Medicare.gov equipment coverage address tried returned a not-found page and was not used. No pay figures or fee amounts are quoted on these pages.

More temporary permit states, and state hubs

On November 12, 2026, the temporary permits page added rules read in full that day: Alabama’s OT administrative code chapter 625-X-3; Missouri rules 20 CSR 2205-3.030 (OT) and 20 CSR 2150-3.050 (PT); North Dakota Century Code section 43-40-13 and rule 55.5-02-01-06 (OT); New Mexico rules 16.15.2.10 (OT), 16.20.4.8 (PT), and 16.26.2.17 (SLP clinical fellows); and Nevada NAC 640A.062 and 640A.065 (OT) and NAC 640.095 (PT). Idaho’s OT rules were also read, but the only temporary permit text in them is a fee table, so Idaho is not included. Rule history lines and fee amounts are not quoted.

The same day, a first set of ten state hubs was added under /states/. Each hub only links to pages already on this site and repeats this site’s own directory labels for OT, PT, and ASLP-IC compact status; it quotes nothing new and has no outside links. The ten are the states with OT, PT, and SLP renewal pages on this site and the most other guide pages that discuss the state, with ties broken alphabetically.

Later on November 12, 2026, hubs were added for the other ten states with OT, PT, and SLP renewal pages on this site, in the same format, so there are now twenty. The temporary permits page added Washington WAC 246-847-115 (OT), WAC 246-915-078 (PT), and RCW 18.35.060 with WAC 246-828-045 (SLP); Minnesota Statutes 148.6418 (OT) and 148.5161 (SLP); South Carolina Code sections 40-36-270 (OT) and 40-67-30 and 40-67-220 (SLP); Wisconsin rule OT 2.07 and Wisconsin Statutes 459.24(6) (SLP); and Pennsylvania Code sections 42.15 and 42.23 (OT) and 40.22 (PT). For SLP, only the speech-language pathology provisions are quoted or paraphrased. Nevada’s chapter 637B was also read; it does not use the term clinical fellow, and the only provisional license rule it spells out is for hearing aid dispensing, so it is not included. Texas’s SLP rules address returned a not-found page.

Next, ten more state hubs were added by board-data completeness, so there are now thirty: Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, and South Dakota. Each has OT and PT board entries and a verified SLP board entry; nine have two of the three renewal pages and Ohio has one. Hubs mark renewal pages this site has not built. On retry, Texas’s SLP intern license was added from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation’s intern application page, read in full; the Texas statutes site returned a script-only page and the old Texas Administrative Code address now redirects, so no Texas rule text is quoted. North Carolina’s SLP temporary license was added from General Statutes section 90-298 on the North Carolina General Assembly site. North Carolina’s OT and PT rules were not added: the Office of Administrative Hearings rules server and the OT board’s rules PDF returned server errors, and the OT statute article read has no limited or temporary permit section.

Later on November 12, 2026, seven more state renewal pages were added to fill gaps in the state hubs, from official rule texts read in full that day. OT: Oklahoma (rule 435:30-1-5, from the rules file on the Oklahoma State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision site; the board also lists proposed rule text marked not yet effective, which is not quoted) and Missouri (20 CSR 2205-5 from the Missouri Secretary of State). PT: Oklahoma (rule 435:20-9-2 from the same board), Minnesota (Minnesota Rules chapter 5601 on the Revisor of Statutes site), and Louisiana (the Louisiana Physical Therapy Board’s practice act and rules file, LAC 46:LIV). SLP: North Dakota (chapter 11-02-01 on the North Dakota Legislative Branch site) and South Dakota (chapter 20:79:02 on the South Dakota Legislature site). For SLP, only the speech-language pathology provisions are quoted or paraphrased. With its OT and PT pages added, Oklahoma has all three renewal pages and a verified SLP board entry, so an Oklahoma hub was added and there are now thirty-one. Missouri, Minnesota, Louisiana, North Dakota, and South Dakota now also have all three renewal pages. Not built: Arizona’s OT and PT board sites and its rule files refused the request, and the Arizona statutes read leave the hours to board rules; Georgia’s Secretary of State and rules sites refused the request; New Jersey’s consumer affairs pages returned script-only pages, and the legislature statutes address tried returned a not-found page; Ohio’s administrative code pages returned no rule text without a script; and Oregon’s PT continuing competence page sets hours by license date in a table, so it was not used. Georgia’s and New Jersey’s SLP board entries stay Not yet verified.

Interprofessional practice, temporary permits, clinical education minimums, and job and license finders

On November 12, 2026, four more pages were added. The interprofessional practice page quotes IPEC’s core competencies page and its Version 3 competency statements, and ASHA’s interprofessional education and practice page; AOTA’s interprofessional collaboration address returned an empty page and APTA’s returned a not-found page, so neither is quoted. The temporary permits page quotes Tennessee rule 1150-02-.14, Louisiana §1939, New York Part 76 section 76.4, and the Florida Board of Physical Therapy’s physical therapist page; it is not a list of every state. The clinical education page quotes the 2023 ACOTE Standards and CAPTE’s PT and PTA standards; ACOTE’s three-column layout means some fieldwork lengths are paraphrased. The job and license finder page quotes CareerOneStop’s License Finder and Job Finder and USAJOBS.

Official sources

Associations and boards set their own rules. If a link has moved, start from that organization’s home page.