(105 ILCS 5/14-1.09) (from Ch. 122, par. 14-1.09)
Sec. 14-1.09.
School psychologist.
"School psychologist" means a
psychologist who has graduated with a master's or higher degree in
psychology or educational psychology from an institution of higher learning
which maintains equipment,
courses of study, and standards of scholarship approved by the State Board
of Education, who has had at least one school year of full-time supervised
experience in the delivery of school psychological services of a character
approved by the State
Superintendent of Education, who has such additional qualifications
as may be required
by the State Board of Education, and who holds a School Service Personnel
Certificate endorsed for school psychology issued pursuant to Section
21-25.
Persons so certified may use the title "school psychologist" and may
offer school psychological services which are limited to those services set
forth in 23 Ill. Adm. Code 226, Special Education, pertaining to children
between the ages of 3 to 21, promulgated by the State Board of Education.
School psychologists may make evaluations, recommendations or interventions
regarding the placement of children in educational programs or special
education classes. However, a school psychologist shall not provide such
services outside his or her employment to any student in the district or
districts which employ such school psychologist.
(Source: P.A. 85-361.)
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