The domestic route to practising as an audiologist in Canada: a CACUP-accredited master’s degree in audiology with supervised clinical practicum, the Canadian Entry-to-Practice Exam, and registration with the regulator where you will practise. Quebec runs its own OOAQ permit route with a French requirement, and hearing-aid dispensing is a separate check in each jurisdiction.
Applies in: across Canada
This guide covers one route only: a student in Canada who completes a master’s degree in audiology, completes the supervised clinical practicum inside that degree, passes the Canadian Entry-to-Practice (CETP) Exam where the destination regulator requires it, and registers with the regulator in the province where they will work. It is not the route for an audiologist who trained abroad, and it is not a route to practising as a speech-language pathologist, a hearing instrument practitioner, or any other title without the registration that title requires. An internationally educated audiologist follows the internationally educated route the destination regulator states, starting from the general foreign-credentials guide linked below. Do not mix the steps: a master’s degree alone does not register you, passing an examination alone does not register you, and a practicum completed outside the regulator’s framework is not credited on assumption. This guide gives administrative process only. It gives no clinical or hearing-health advice, and it does not assess whether any individual reader qualifies for admission, examination, or registration.
Two kinds of bodies divide the work, and confusing them is the expensive mistake. The Council for Accreditation of Canadian University Programs in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CACUP-ASLP) accredits graduate programs. The Canadian Alliance of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Regulators (CAASPR) is the regulators’ alliance behind the Academic Equivalency Framework and the CETP Exam development described on the regulator pages. Speech-Language and Audiology Canada (SAC) is the national association. The regulator in your province licenses you to practise and to use the title. Job Bank, for Audiologists and speech-language pathologists under National Occupational Classification 31112, states the national shape this guide starts from: audiologists require a master’s degree in audiology; registration with a regulatory body is required in Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia; membership in the national association is usually required; and in some jurisdictions, audiologists may be required to obtain a separate licence to dispense hearing aids. That Job Bank framing is the starting point, not the last word, and its registration list is stale in one respect this guide corrects from regulator pages: it omits Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, both of which regulate the profession, as Steps 4 and 5 set out. Confirm the current rule on the regulator page on the day you rely on it, because registration rules change and older summaries linger.
Audiologists diagnose, evaluate, and treat individuals with peripheral and central hearing loss, tinnitus, and balance problems. The OOAQ page describes audiologists as experts in hearing and the vestibular system who intervene directly with people of all ages, from newborns to older adults, without a prior medical diagnosis, to limit or remove hearing or vestibular difficulties and to support autonomy, well-being, and participation in social, school, and work activities, including prevention, public awareness of hearing health, and advice on safer acoustic environments. The Academic Equivalency Framework lists the clinical activities the degree must develop: hearing measurement, audiological assessment, electrophysiological and other diagnostic measurements, amplification including systems, selection, fitting, verification, and validation, implantable hearing devices, calibration and maintenance of instrumentation, auditory and vestibular disorders involving peripheral and central pathways, assessment and management of tinnitus including hyperacusis, paediatric audiology, and habilitation and rehabilitation procedures for children, adults, older adults, and specific populations. Audiologists work in hospitals, community and public health centres, extended care facilities, day clinics, rehabilitation centres, and educational institutions, or in private practice, as the occupational description states. The distinction from speech-language pathology is a scope distinction, not a seniority distinction: the audiologist’s scope is hearing and balance, the speech-language pathologist’s scope is speech, fluency, language, voice, and swallowing, and each scope needs its own degree and its own examination route.
The entry credential is a master’s degree in audiology from a program accredited by CACUP-ASLP. Job Bank states the requirement plainly: audiologists require a master’s degree in audiology. Do not treat any program list copied from a secondary source as current, and do not assume a program is an audiology program because it awards a master’s degree in a related field, or because the same university also runs a speech-language pathology program. Check the CACUP-ASLP accredited-programs directory before you apply, and count audiology programs by the degree the directory names, not by a headline count and not by a section heading: the directory page groups entries under headings in a way that places speech-language pathology degrees under the audiology heading, so the reliable count is the entries that name an audiology degree. Counted that way, the directory names six audiology degrees:
No other university on the directory names an audiology degree. There is no CACUP-accredited audiology program in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, or Newfoundland and Labrador, or in the territories, on the directory. If you live in a jurisdiction with no audiology program, the degree means studying in another province, and the regulator in the province where you intend to practise is still the authority for whether that program’s credential is the one it accepts, so check that regulator’s recognition before you apply, not after you graduate. Three of the six audiology programs run in French. Applying to an English-language program while intending to practise in Quebec is planning the wrong route unless you already meet the French requirement set out in Step 5, and applying to a French-language program without the language preparation to complete it is the same error in reverse.
Admission requirements are set by each university and change. This guide states no grade threshold, seat count, prerequisite list, program length, or tuition figure for any program, because none was verified on a program page. Confirm the current requirements on the program page you will actually apply to, and confirm with the destination regulator that the program meets its academic requirements before you enrol. A program’s own description of its accreditation status is not proof of current status: the CACUP-ASLP directory states that programs are responsible for publicly posting their accreditation status and that CACUP-ASLP updates the directory following each accreditation decision, so confirm the status on the directory on the day you rely on it.
The degree combines university study with supervised clinical practicum, and the practicum is not an add-on: the regulators’ Academic Equivalency Framework (AEF) for audiology sets it as a minimum entry requirement, and the programs build it into the degree. The framework minimum is 350 hours of supervised clinical education, with a maximum of 50 hours simulated. Within that total, the framework specifies 300 hours in the professional area, as direct contact or simulation, including a minimum of 50 hours with children, 50 hours with adults, 100 hours of assessment, and 50 hours of intervention, covering the activities listed above. It also specifies 20 hours of direct contact or simulation exposure to speech-language pathology assessment, intervention, or prevention activities as the minor area. That 20-hour minor-area exposure is exposure to the neighbouring profession, not qualification in it. The framework also sets coursework minimums totalling 765 clock hours: 135 hours of basic knowledge specific to the profession, 180 hours of basic knowledge related to other professions and disciplines, 405 hours in the professional competencies specific to audiology at the graduate level, and 45 hours in the minor area covering speech and language development, delays, and disorders, also at the graduate level. None of this is a reason to count your own hours in advance: the program director certifies the practicum record, and the regulator checks it against the audiology framework.
Do not carry figures from the neighbouring profession into this step. The speech-language pathology framework also totals 350 practicum hours and 765 coursework hours, but its professional-area intervention minimum is 100 hours rather than 50, its assessment minimum is 50 hours rather than 100, and its minor area is audiology rather than speech-language pathology. A practicum record planned from the speech-language pathology breakdown will misstate an audiology file. Likewise, do not carry American figures into a Canadian plan: the Canadian practicum is built into the degree, and no post-degree fellowship year is stated on any regulator or framework page. Placement documentation for your own program should be assembled early, because a missing placement document can push a placement to a later term. Confirm the placement documentation for your own program on the program page.
After the degree, graduates write the Canadian Entry-to-Practice Exam for audiology, the CETP Exam for audiology, distinct from the speech-language pathology version, subject to the verification limits in this step. The examination is a registration requirement in some jurisdictions and not in others, eligibility to write it is determined by the regulator in the province where the applicant intends to work, and the regulator provides the names of eligible applicants to the examination administrator, as Nova Scotia’s regulator states it. Do not enrol for the examination assuming the regulator will confirm eligibility afterwards, and do not assume that passing the examination alone authorizes practice: registration with the applicable provincial regulatory body is still required, as the examination pages the regulators point to state it.
The province positions verified on regulator pages are as follows. Ontario requires the CETP Exam for a general certificate, which allows independent practice as an audiologist, alongside a professional master’s degree satisfying the Academic Equivalency Framework and either 750 hours of patient care or related work or six months of mentored practice in Ontario. Nova Scotia requires successful completion of the CETP Exam, administered by Speech-Language and Audiology Canada as that regulator’s page words it, with eligibility determined by the regulator and eligible names provided to SAC. Newfoundland and Labrador directs applicants to apply to write the CETP Exam through the SAC website, adopts conditional enrolment for graduates of Canadian accredited programs, and grants temporary status while an applicant waits on examination results, revoked if the applicant is not successful; that wording sits on an NLCHP page headed for speech-language pathologists, so confirm the audiologist-specific steps on the NLCHP and CASLP-NL pages before you rely on it for audiology. Saskatchewan’s provisional licence expires at the earliest of two years or a third failure to achieve a passing score on the CETP exam, which confirms the CETP Exam as the entry-to-practice examination for the provisional route there, with supervised practice alongside it. Alberta is the stated exception: the regulator’s examination FAQ states that successful completion of the CETP Exam or the Praxis Exam is not currently a requirement for applicants who graduated from Canadian accredited university programs, because Alberta awaits amendments to the Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists Profession Regulation before an entry-to-practice examination can be implemented for all applicants, and the same FAQ states a maximum of three regular attempts across the approved examinations. That Alberta position is dated material on an undated FAQ archive, so recheck it on the ACSLPA pages before you rely on it, and do not carry the Alberta exception into another province.
For the remaining provinces, the examination position is a check, not a settled step. British Columbia: no official page states it, so whether British Columbia requires the CETP Exam, the Praxis examination, or either is a check on the College’s pages. Manitoba: the CASLPM CETP page is a historical account of the 2020 and 2021 sittings, a national-level dispute between CAASPR and SAC, and a regulation amendment that had steps still to be taken before it could require CETP passage, and it states that as of September 2021 current provisional registrants were not required to write and pass the CETP Exam but were strongly encouraged to do so; that page does not settle the current Manitoba requirement, which is a check with CASLPM. Prince Edward Island: the College page states that applicants must meet the education and examination requirements set out in the regulations, without naming the examination on that page, so the examination for Prince Edward Island is a check on the College’s regulations. New Brunswick: the Government of New Brunswick pathway document describes the CETP Exam, a provisional registration, and 450 hours of patient care under a mentorship program, but that document is the pathway for internationally educated health professionals, revised in June 2024, and it does not settle the domestic-graduate route, which is a check on the New Brunswick regulator’s pages; the regulator-name question for New Brunswick is flagged in Step 4. Quebec: no OOAQ page states a CETP Exam position for Quebec candidates, so it is a check with the OOAQ.
The administrator question is settled on the current CETP pages. The CETP Department is the operational unit within Speech-Language & Audiology Canada (SAC) that administers the CETP Exams for audiology and speech-language pathology, on behalf of the provincial regulatory bodies, which determine eligibility. Manitoba’s regulator page describes CAASPR as the exam administrator and SAC as the exam vendor, but that page is a historical account of a 2020–2021 national dispute; the current CETP pages do not name CAASPR, so this guide follows the current pages. The CETP pages cover audiology and speech-language pathology together and state no separate audiology-only eligibility, format, or scoring rules.
What the CETP pages state, verified in the live-browser read for this run: the exams are offered three times a year, in March, July, and November, in Eastern Time. The confirmed 2027 sittings are March 9 (enrolment December 15, 2026 to January 12, 2027), July 6 (enrolment April 13 to May 11, 2027), and November 9 (enrolment August 17 to September 14, 2027). The enrolment fee is $1,325 including tax, adjusted effective April 1, 2026. The exam is online, at an exam centre or at home with live remote proctoring, in English and French with the ability to toggle between language versions during the exam. It lasts 3 hours 45 minutes and has 170 multiple-choice questions in two parts: Part 1 has 90 questions in 2 hours and Part 2 has 80 questions in 1 hour 45 minutes, with Part 1 submitted before moving to Part 2. Results are pass or fail on a standardized scaled score from 100 to 550, with a passing score set at 330, emailed four to six weeks after the exam. Attempt limits are set by the regulatory bodies, not by the CETP Department; most Canadian regulators allow a maximum of three attempts. Eligibility is determined by the regulator in the province where the applicant plans to practise, and conditional enrolment applies to graduates of Canadian-accredited programs whose first attempt is within 12 months of the confirmed program-completion date, subject to the conditions on the CETP pages. The sitting-date and fee claims in the New Brunswick internationally educated pathway document are dated March 2024 estimates for that pathway and are not carried here. Confirm the current dates, fee, and attempt rules on the CETP pages and with your regulator before you plan around a sitting or pay anything.
You do not necessarily have to wait unemployed for a sitting, but the shape of any interim or provisional category is set by each regulator and must not be assumed. Ontario’s general certificate route includes six months of mentored practice as an alternative to the 750-hour route. Saskatchewan’s provisional licence expressly allows practice under supervision while the examination and supervised practice requirements are met. New Brunswick’s internationally educated pathway grants a provisional registration until the examination is passed and mentorship hours are completed, for that pathway. Confirm the category, the supervision it requires, the title you may use while holding it, and the expiry rules with the destination regulator, because a provisional or initial registration is not the same as full registration for independent practice.
Registration is where the provincial split bites. Audiology is a regulated profession in all ten provinces, verified on a regulator or government page for each province. You must be registered with the regulator in the province where you will practise to practise there and use the title. The regulators, as named on the pages, are:
New Brunswick’s regulator name is a check. The Government of New Brunswick pathway document names the New Brunswick Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (NBASLPA) as the regulatory authority to register with. The speech-language pathology guide and the Ontario regulator’s labour-mobility list name the Regulatory College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists of New Brunswick (RCASLPNB) as the regulator, with the association as the professional association, not the regulator. This guide does not choose between those wordings. Confirm the current regulator name, contact details, and application route on the regulator’s own pages before you apply, and do not rely on the Job Bank regulator list or an older guide as current. British Columbia’s registration steps, examination set, and any jurisprudence or additional requirements are likewise checks: this guide states no British Columbia registration steps beyond the College’s identity on the government page.
Beyond the degree and the examination, each regulator sets its own additional requirements, and this guide states only the ones that sat on official regulator pages. Ontario’s general certificate requires a professional master’s degree satisfying the Academic Equivalency Framework, a passed CETP Exam, and either 750 hours of patient care or related work or six months of mentored practice in Ontario, with professional liability insurance of at least two million dollars per claim, annual renewal by October 1, 750 hours of patient care or related work every three years, and participation in the Quality Assurance Program. Nova Scotia requires an approved education program or equivalent, English language proficiency, eligibility to work in Canada, a vulnerable sector check, professional liability insurance of at least two million dollars, and currency of practice shown by graduation from an approved program within the past five years or at least 1,000 hours of practice in the past five years. Newfoundland and Labrador requires, on the page, government photo identification, a certificate of conduct and vulnerable sector check dated within six months, proof of the national certification examination, a mentorship guidance contract submitted to CASLP-NL, professional liability insurance, and completion of required online courses including a jurisprudence course, with a registration decision no later than 50 business days after all documentation is submitted; confirm the audiologist-specific list on the NLCHP pages, because that page is headed for speech-language pathologists. Saskatchewan’s provisional category requires completion of the entry-to-practice examination and a period of supervised practice, with provisional titles used while it is held. Prince Edward Island requires entitlement to work in Canada, reasonable proficiency in written and spoken English, the education and examination requirements in the regulations, currency of professional knowledge and skills, good character and disciplinary standing, and professional liability insurance, with general and special registers. Alberta’s additional requirements beyond the degree and the practicum record, and Manitoba’s current additional requirements, are checks on the ACSLPA and CASLPM pages respectively, because it could not be verified on an official page. Do not carry one province’s checklist into another province’s application. The regulator’s own registration page is the checklist that governs yours.
Moving provinces means applying to the new province’s regulator. The degree and the examination are national in character, but registration is granted province by province, and the new regulator assesses the application under its own rules, including verification of registration and good standing from every jurisdiction practised in. Labour mobility eases that process but does not remove the application: Prince Edward Island’s College page states that under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement, a health professional registered and in good standing with a regulatory body in any other regulated Canadian province can apply as a labour mobility applicant, and Alberta’s regulator FAQ states that applicants currently registered in good standing with another provincial regulator in Canada will not be required to write the CETP or Praxis examinations for Alberta. Quebec’s other-provinces permit route is set out in Step 5. Pick the province first, check that regulator’s program recognition before applying to a program, and re-check it before moving. That order is what the whole system rewards.
Quebec is the exception to plan around from the start, not a detail to discover after graduation. To practise in Quebec you need a permit from the OOAQ, the professional order that governs speech-language pathologists, called orthophonistes in Quebec, and audiologists. The OOAQ regulation page states the two requirements for holding the title and exercising the reserved activities: hold a university master’s degree in audiology, and be registered on the OOAQ membership roll. A person who holds an OOAQ permit must then register on the membership roll every year to be allowed to use the title and practise. The French-language condition is the second gate. Under the Charter of the French language, a professional order may only issue a regular permit to a person with appropriate knowledge of French, demonstrated by education in French or by a certificate of knowledge of French from the Office québécois de la langue française, as the Government of Quebec licence page states it. The OOAQ other-provinces page states that applicants from other Canadian provinces must include an attestation and proof of knowledge of French as set out in section 35 of the Charter, and that if the proof cannot be submitted at application, the applicant may be eligible for a regular permit issued temporarily, valid for a maximum of one year and renewable up to three times with the Office’s permission, with the Office examination to be taken for each renewal. The Government of Quebec page states the same temporary-permit shape: valid for a maximum of one year, renewable up to three times with authorization, with appearance at the Office examination required at least once in the twelve months following issuance or renewal. The French requirement is not a formality to arrange after arrival: without the proof, at most a temporary permit is available, and it expires.
For an audiologist registered in another Canadian province, the OOAQ other-provinces page states the remaining steps on that page: proof of legal authorization to practise, with no restriction or limitation, emailed directly by the home regulator; the French attestation and proof; and proof of successful completion of online training on the functioning of the Quebec professional system and the health-care and education systems, with instructions sent once all required documents are received. The Order states it is committed to processing complete admission applications from candidates holding legal authorization in another Canadian province within a maximum of 30 days. Only registration on the membership roll entitles the person to use the title and perform reserved acts in Quebec. For a graduate of a Quebec university, no official page states it, so the Quebec-graduate steps beyond the master’s degree, the membership roll, and the French proof are checks on the OOAQ portal, including whether the online training described for other-province applicants also applies. For a candidate trained outside Canada, no official page states it, so start with the OOAQ, not with another province’s regulator, if Quebec is the destination. Confirm with the OOAQ whether the CETP Exam is part of your route, since no OOAQ page states that position, and confirm the current fees on the OOAQ pages, since the fee figures on the other-provinces page are not stated here. The two Quebec audiology programs on the CACUP-ASLP directory, at Université de Montréal and Université Laval, both run in French, which is consistent with planning the French requirement from the start rather than discovering it at permit stage.
This guide states no territory registration route. Job Bank’s registration list names eight provinces and no territory, which proves nothing about the territories on its own. Confirm with the territorial health authority or the employer what credential and examination evidence a territorial audiology position requires before you assume a provincial registration is either necessary or sufficient, and hold a provincial registration if you want a registration that travels back to a regulated province. Do not carry a provincial route into a territory on assumption, and do not assume that the absence of a named territory regulator on the Job Bank page means no employer requirement applies.
Registration is not a one-time event. Regulators require evidence of continuing competency and practice at renewal, and the cycles and hour requirements are published per regulator rather than nationally. Ontario’s general certificate renews every year by October 1, with 750 hours of patient care or related work every three years and Quality Assurance Program participation, as the CASLPO page states it. This guide states no renewal cycle or practice-hour figure for the other provinces, because none was verified on a regulator page. Do not carry one regulator’s renewal numbers into another’s, and do not assume a regulator’s renewal rules are the same as its initial-registration rules. Check your own regulator’s renewal page, and keep the record that renewal asks for, practice hours, continuing education, and proof of liability insurance, from the first year of practice, because reconstructing it later is the part that fails.
If you trained outside Canada, start with the regulator and the equivalence assessment, not with a school or an examination booking. The regulator assesses your education against the Academic Equivalency Framework, which may involve a credential assessment by an agency the regulator approves, and it determines your eligibility to write the CETP Exam and forwards eligible names to the examination administrator. Quebec employs its own equivalence process through the OOAQ, so start with the OOAQ, not with another province’s regulator, if Quebec is the destination. There is no audiology-specific foreign-credentials guide on this site; the general foreign-credentials guide linked below is the starting point, and the destination regulator’s internationally educated pages govern the route.
Dispensing is the one part of audiology practice where registration as an audiologist must not be assumed to be the whole licence. Job Bank’s general statement is the only dispensing fact verified on an official page: in some jurisdictions, audiologists may be required to obtain a separate licence to dispense hearing aids. No jurisdiction is named, no dispensing fee or examination is stated, and no regulator page states whether audiologist registration alone authorizes dispensing in its province. British Columbia’s government page shows the structural reason to check: the College of Health and Care Professionals of BC regulates both audiologists and hearing instrument practitioners as separately named professions. Whether an audiologist’s registration alone authorizes dispensing in British Columbia, or whether a separate hearing instrument practitioner licence is required, is a check on the College’s pages. The Quebec dispensing boundary is likewise a check with the OOAQ before an audiologist offers dispensing there. For Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador, and for the territories, confirm with the destination regulator whether dispensing needs a separate licence, a separate registration category, or a prescription or referral arrangement. State the check by naming the regulator page, and resolve it before the first dispensing appointment, not after.
First, confirm that the program you intend to enter is a CACUP-accredited audiology program on the CACUP-ASLP directory, counted by the degree name, and that the destination regulator recognizes it, because a speech-language pathology degree at the same university is a different credential. Second, confirm the practicum record your program will certify against the audiology Academic Equivalency Framework, including the 300-hour professional-area breakdown and the 20-hour speech-language pathology minor exposure, and do not plan from the speech-language pathology breakdown. Third, confirm whether the destination regulator requires the CETP Exam, which version, and the attempt rules, and confirm the examination dates and fee on the CETP pages (cetpexams.ca), because several provinces are checks. Fourth, confirm the full registration checklist, including any jurisprudence step, language proficiency, criminal record check, liability insurance, and currency-of-practice evidence, on the destination regulator’s own page, because only Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador checklists are stated in this guide from official pages. Fifth, resolve the Quebec question before you plan: if you intend to practise in Quebec, confirm the recognized master’s program, the membership-roll registration, and the French-language proof with the OOAQ, and do not plan on a CETP sitting for Quebec until the OOAQ confirms it applies. Sixth, resolve the dispensing question before you offer it: confirm with the destination regulator whether a separate hearing-aid dispensing licence applies. Seventh, confirm every fee on the fee schedule of the body that charges it, the school, the examination administrator, or the regulator, on the day you pay, because no tuition, examination, registration, or licence fee figure is stated in this guide. Eighth, if you trained outside Canada, stop and follow the internationally educated route the destination regulator states, starting from the general foreign-credentials guide, because the domestic steps do not assess foreign education or training.
This guide states no wage or salary figure for audiologists in any province or territory. It states no tuition figure for any program. It states no program count beyond the six audiology degrees counted by degree name on the CACUP-ASLP directory page, no seat count, quota, application count, or admission statistic, and no admission grade threshold or prerequisite list, because those figures could not be verified on an official page. It states no registration fee, licence fee, application fee, or association membership fee, other than the CETP enrolment fee stated in Step 3, including the fee figures on the OOAQ other-provinces page, because fees change by schedule and the body that charges the fee owns the figure. The CETP Exam sitting pattern, enrolment fee, format, and pass score stated in Step 3 were verified on the CETP pages (cetpexams.ca) in the live-browser read for this run; the former SAC CETP URL redirects to cetpexams.ca. The examination administrator is stated as settled in Step 3: SAC’s CETP Department, on behalf of the regulatory bodies. The Manitoba regulator page’s older CAASPR-as-administrator wording describes a 2020–2021 dispute and is superseded by the current CETP pages. It states no CETP Exam requirement, attempt rule, or examination set for British Columbia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, or Quebec beyond the checks flagged in the body, and no domestic-graduate examination or mentorship route for New Brunswick beyond the internationally educated pathway document, because it could not be verified on an official page. It states no British Columbia registration steps, no Alberta or Manitoba complete registration checklist, and no territory registration route, because no such page states it. It states no hearing-aid dispensing rule for any jurisdiction beyond Job Bank’s general separate-licence warning and the British Columbia structural check, because no regulator dispensing page states it. It states no Quebec-graduate admission steps beyond the master’s degree, membership-roll registration, and French proof on the OOAQ and Government of Quebec pages, and no OOAQ CETP Exam position, because no such page states it. Where no figure is stated here, the guide points to the page that owns it instead of carrying a secondary source’s number. Confirm every fee, deadline, attempt rule, practicum figure, examination requirement, and registration step on the school, CETP, or regulator page that owns it, on the day you apply or pay.
No. This guide covers the domestic route only: a student who completes a master’s degree in audiology in Canada, completes the supervised clinical practicum inside that degree, passes the Canadian Entry-to-Practice Exam where the destination regulator requires it, and registers with the regulator where they will practise. If your audiology education or training was completed outside Canada, the steps in this guide do not assess that education, and no audiology-specific foreign-credentials guide exists on this site. Start with the general foreign-credentials guide linked in the Related guides section, and then confirm the internationally educated route with the regulator in the province where you intend to work. The regulator, not this guide, decides how foreign education and training are assessed. Do not plan a domestic application around a foreign-credential assessment, and do not assume that a degree completed abroad maps onto the CACUP-accredited program route in Step 1 without that regulator assessment.
No, although the two professions share regulators, accreditation, and one national association in Canada. Audiologists diagnose, evaluate, and treat individuals with peripheral and central hearing loss, tinnitus, and balance problems. Speech-language pathologists diagnose, assess, and treat human communication disorders, including speech, fluency, language, voice, and swallowing disorders. Each requires its own professional master’s degree: a master’s in audiology for audiologists and a master’s in speech-language pathology for speech-language pathologists. The regulators describe separate Canadian Entry-to-Practice Exams for the two professions. The 20 hours of speech-language pathology exposure inside an audiology degree is exposure to the neighbouring profession, not qualification in it, just as the 20 hours of audiology inside a speech-language pathology degree does not qualify a speech-language pathologist in audiology. This guide covers the audiologist route only. The companion guide on this site covers the speech-language pathologist route, including its own practicum breakdown, which must not be carried into an audiology plan.
Whether you have to write it depends on the destination regulator. The exam name is consistent: the Canadian Entry-to-Practice (CETP) Exam, with a version for audiology. Ontario requires it for a general certificate, Nova Scotia requires it with eligibility determined by the regulator, Newfoundland and Labrador directs applicants to write it through the SAC website, and Saskatchewan’s provisional licence expires on a third failure to achieve a passing score on it. Alberta’s regulator states that successful completion of the CETP Exam or the Praxis Exam is not currently a requirement for applicants who graduated from Canadian accredited programs, pending regulation amendments. For British Columbia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Quebec, confirm the exam requirement on the regulator page before you plan around a sitting. On administration, the regulator pages differ in wording, but the current CETP pages settle it, as stated below. The administrator is settled on the current CETP pages: Speech-Language & Audiology Canada’s CETP Department administers the CETP Exams on behalf of the provincial regulatory bodies. The Manitoba page’s CAASPR-as-administrator wording is a historical account of a 2020–2021 dispute and does not reflect the current CETP pages, which do not name CAASPR. Step 3 states the verified sitting pattern, fee, format, and pass score. Confirm the sitting dates, the fee, and the attempt rules on the CETP pages and with your regulator before you enrol or pay.
The total minimum is the same number, and the breakdown is not the same. The regulators’ Academic Equivalency Framework for audiology sets a minimum of 350 hours of supervised clinical education, with a maximum of 50 hours simulated. Within that total, the framework specifies 300 hours in the professional area, including a minimum of 50 hours with children, 50 hours with adults, 100 hours of assessment, and 50 hours of intervention, covering hearing measurement, audiological assessment, electrophysiological and other diagnostic measurements, amplification, and implantable hearing devices, among the listed activities. It also specifies 20 hours of direct-contact or simulated exposure to speech-language pathology assessment, intervention, or prevention as the minor area. The speech-language pathology framework also totals 350 hours, but its intervention minimum is 100 hours rather than 50, and its minor area is 20 hours in audiology. Do not plan an audiology practicum record from the speech-language pathology breakdown, and do not count observation hours or simulated hours beyond the framework’s maximum on assumption. The program director certifies the practicum record, and the destination regulator checks it against the audiology framework.
Quebec follows its own permit route through the Ordre des orthophonistes et audiologistes du Québec (OOAQ), and the steps outside Quebec do not transfer unchanged. The OOAQ page states that to hold the title and exercise the reserved activities of an audiologist in Quebec, a person must hold a university master’s degree in audiology and be registered on the OOAQ membership roll. A person who holds an OOAQ permit must then register on the membership roll every year to use the title and practise. Proof of appropriate knowledge of French under section 35 of the Charter of the French language is required for a regular permit, with a temporary permit available where the French proof cannot yet be submitted, as the OOAQ other-provinces page and the Government of Quebec licence page state it. No OOAQ page states the CETP Exam position for Quebec candidates, so whether the CETP Exam is part of a Quebec route is a check with the OOAQ, not a settled step in this guide. No OOAQ Quebec-graduate admission page was either, so any additional Quebec-graduate steps, including the online training on the Quebec professional system that the other-provinces page requires of applicants from other provinces, are checks on the OOAQ portal before you apply. Confirm every Quebec step with the OOAQ, including which master’s program the Order recognizes, the French-language proof, and the membership-roll registration, before you plan around a Quebec posting.
Not on the strength of audiologist registration alone, in every jurisdiction. Job Bank states only that in some jurisdictions, audiologists may be required to obtain a separate licence to dispense hearing aids. It does not name the jurisdictions, and no regulator page states a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction dispensing rule. The one related fact verified on an official government page is structural: British Columbia’s government regulation page lists both audiologists and hearing instrument practitioners among the professions regulated by the College of Health and Care Professionals of BC, which shows dispensing is a separately named profession in British Columbia, but it does not state whether an audiologist’s registration alone authorizes dispensing there. That is a check on the College’s pages. For every other province and territory, dispensing is likewise a check naming the regulator page that owns it. Do not fit, sell, or dispense a hearing aid on the assumption that audiologist registration covers it, and do not carry a dispensing rule from one province into another. Confirm with the destination regulator whether dispensing needs a separate licence, a separate registration category, or a prescription or referral arrangement, before you offer it.