# Practicum Ledger, full text

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# Practicum hour categories, defined in plain words

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## Doctoral psychology practicum, September 2026 categories

For: Doctoral psychology students (PhD or PsyD) preparing an internship application. Last reviewed 25 September 2026.

The categories from the practicum hours tracking guide published in September 2026 for the psychology internship application: intervention, assessment, integrated reports, supervision and support, with client age groups, treatment settings and supervisor credentials where the guide asks for them.

Sources: [AAPI Practicum Hours Tracking Guide](https://www.appic.org/Portals/0/Website%20docs/AAPI_Prac_Hrs%20_Tracking_Guide_%20Sept%2010_2026.pdf), Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers, Version 1.0, last revised September 2026 (announced 11 September 2026); [AAPI Hours Tracking Guide Now Available (announcement)](https://www.appic.org/News-Articles/ArtMID/1931/ArticleID/129/AAPI-Hours-Tracking-Guide-Now-Available), Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers, 11 September 2026.

### General rules

- **Your program approves what counts.** Only experiences your director of clinical training accepts as program sanctioned practicum go in these categories. Ask before you start anything unusual, such as clinical work inside a research study or staying on at a site after the placement ends. Clinical work that is not approved practicum has its own non practicum section in the application instead.
- **Hours up to 30 September of the year you apply.** Hours accrued up to and including 30 September of your application year are the ones you report. Hours you expect to earn after that are described separately as anticipated experience. The totals page splits your log at that date once you enter your application year.
- **Record the setting for intervention and assessment.** For every intervention or assessment activity, note the kind of treatment setting it happened in as well as what you did.
- **Paid or unpaid both count.** A practicum can be paid or unpaid. What matters is the training and the supervision, not the pay.
- **Clock hours, rounded up to the quarter hour.** A practicum hour is a clock hour, not a credit hour. Each activity is rounded up to the next 15 minutes: 1 to 15 minutes is 0.25 hours, 16 to 30 is 0.50, and so on. You log the actual minutes; the totals apply the rounding to each entry.
- **One category per activity.** Each hour goes in exactly one category. When an activity could fit two, pick the one that describes it best and ask your supervisor or director of clinical training if unsure. Work done while a supervisor watches live is logged as the work itself, not as supervision.
- **Doctoral hours and terminal master's hours.** A master's degree earned inside your doctoral program is part of the doctorate, so those hours are doctoral. Hours from a separate, stand alone master's program are reported in their own columns. Choose the level on each entry.

### Categories

- **Intervention**: Direct clinical service to clients in person or by video. Telephone work has its own category below. For each intervention category the application asks for hours and for the number of different clients.
  - **Individual therapy**: One to one psychotherapy, reported by the client's age group. Co-therapy with one client counts here when you are actively treating, not watching. Crisis work with your own ongoing therapy client also counts here. Examples: A weekly session with an adult client; A session where a child learns a skill while the caregiver sits in to learn it too.
  - **Group counseling**: Therapy with several clients at once who share a concern or are learning skills, with one or more therapists. A group counts as one unit in the number of different groups however many people attend, and hours are the time spent, not time multiplied by attendees. Examples: Co-leading a weekly skills group for adolescents.
  - **Career counseling**: Helping a client weigh interests, values and skills to make career or education decisions, reported for adults or adolescents only.
  - **Family therapy**: Therapy with several family members together where the focus is how they interact, including when you work from behind a one way mirror. Examples: A caregiver and child together, with the work aimed at their interaction.
  - **Couples therapy**: Therapy with both partners together, as a couple.
  - **School counseling interventions**: School based work aimed at a student's learning, behavior and adjustment at school. Mental health therapy that simply happens in a school building belongs in the therapy categories instead.
    - **School consultation**: Giving psychological advice to the adults around a student, such as a teacher, to help that student. Examples: Suggesting classroom strategies to a teacher for a student's attention difficulties.
    - **School direct intervention**: Working with the student yourself on academic, behavioral, social or emotional needs.
    - **Other school intervention**: School counseling intervention that is neither consultation nor direct work with the student.
  - **Other psychological interventions**: Named intervention types that are not therapy with an individual, group, family or couple.
    - **Intake interview**: An intake that leads into therapy, whether or not you go on to treat the client yourself. A clinical interview that is part of a testing battery is assessment instead.
    - **Substance use intervention**: Work on the psychological and behavioral side of substance use: prevention, harm reduction, treatment and relapse prevention.
    - **Sport psychology or performance enhancement**: Building mental skills, motivation and well-being to improve athletic or other performance.
    - **Medical or health related intervention**: Psychological intervention aimed at a health or medical concern. The guide names this category in its example of choosing one category, without a section of its own. Examples: A stress management group, if you log it here rather than as group counseling.
    - **Consultation**: Clinical consultation that involves the client or someone acting for the client, such as a teacher. Talking with other professionals only to coordinate care, without the client, is support.
    - **Other interventions**: Direct client contact that fits no other intervention category. Count only the time with the client. You can describe these in the application's free text box. Examples: Case management with the client present; Milieu work in a residential program; Treatment planning with an inpatient present; Working with a caregiver alone on the child's behalf; Crisis work with someone who is not your therapy client.
  - **Other psychological experience with students or organizations**: Client facing work with students, groups or organizations rather than a single client. In every category here, only the time face to face with the people involved counts; research, planning and preparation are support.
    - **Supervision of other students**: Supervising other students' intervention or assessment work in real time, in person, by phone or by video, while your own supervision of them is itself supervised. Peer consultation between trainees at the same level is not this. Reviewing notes or giving written feedback afterwards is support.
    - **Program development or outreach**: Delivering program development or outreach while in contact with the people it serves. Examples: Leading a focus group.
    - **Outcome assessment of programs or projects**: Face to face work that evaluates whether a psychological program or project works, such as a feedback session with participants.
    - **Systems intervention, organizational consultation or performance improvement**: The client facing part of systems level, organizational or performance improvement work.
    - **Other work with students or organizations**: Client facing psychological work with students or organizations that fits none of the above.
  - **Telephone intervention**: Clinical intervention delivered by phone: therapy, skills coaching, crisis work, case management, phone screens and intakes. Calls that deliver no clinical service, such as scheduling, are support.
- **Assessment**: Time spent giving an assessment to a client, or giving them feedback on it, in person or by video, during an approved practicum with real clients. Scoring, interpreting and writing without the client present are support. Record whether each assessment was for clinical care or for research, by its main purpose.
  - **Psychodiagnostic test administration**: Testing mainly about psychological functioning, symptoms, personality, behavior or a diagnostic question, used to guide diagnosis and treatment.
  - **Neuropsychological assessment**: Assessment of cognitive, behavioral and emotional functioning in a neuropsychological frame, covering areas such as attention, memory, executive function, language and processing speed.
  - **Other psychological assessment**: Assessment that is mainly neither psychodiagnostic nor neuropsychological, usually for a specialised referral question. Also where feedback sessions, formal behavioral observation and the clinical interview inside a testing battery go. Examples: Forensic, capacity, custody, vocational or fitness for duty evaluations; Disability, risk, malingering, treatment progress or pre-surgical evaluations; Talking a client through their results; A structured behavioral observation with a formal rating procedure.
  - **Telephone assessment**: Assessment done by phone. Calls that are not clinical assessment, such as scheduling, are support.
- **Integrated reports**: A count of reports, not hours. A report counts once, whatever its length, when it brings together history, interview findings and at least two psychological tests of personality, intellectual, cognitive or neuropsychological functioning, for a real client or research participant in an approved practicum. Symptom checklists and rating scales alone do not meet the test requirement. Co-written reports count when you contributed meaningfully to scoring, interpretation or writing. The time spent writing is support.
  - **Integrated report**: One completed report that meets the integrated report definition: history, interview findings and at least two qualifying psychological tests. Log it on the day you finished your part, with the number of reports.
- **Supervision**: Supervision you receive, split into individual and group and reported by your supervisor's credential. Live supervision of your clinical work is not logged here: log the clinical work itself.
  - **Individual supervision**: One to one supervision you receive, counted by the supervisor's credential.
  - **Group supervision**: Supervision you receive with other trainees present, counted by the supervisor's credential.
- **Support**: Practicum work that is not intervention, assessment or supervision. The application asks for one total plus a short description of the kinds of support work you did, so there is no need to split it further.
  - **Support hours**: Indirect practicum work, and a few kinds of direct contact the guide places here. Examples: Chart review and clinical notes; Scoring, interpreting and writing reports; Case conferences and didactic training; Reviewing recordings of sessions; Case management without the client present; Coordinating care with other professionals without the client; Scheduling calls and other non clinical contact; Text based intervention or assessment; Shadowing or observing without an active role.

### Where common activities go

- My supervisor watched my therapy session live: Individual therapy. Live supervision is logged as the clinical work itself, and not again as supervision.
- Shadowing or observing a session without an active role: Support hours. Watching without delivering treatment or assessment is support.
- Co-therapy with one client where I was actively treating: Individual therapy. Active co-therapy with one client counts as individual therapy.
- Crisis session with my own ongoing therapy client: Individual therapy. Crisis work for your own client belongs with their therapy.
- Crisis work with someone who is not my therapy client: Other interventions. It is direct intervention that fits no named category.
- Caregiver and child together, teaching the child a skill: Individual therapy. The focus is the child, so it is individual therapy at the child's age group.
- Caregiver alone, working on the child's behalf: Other interventions. Caregiver based work without the child is other intervention.
- Caregiver and child together, working on how they interact: Family therapy. The focus is the relationship, so it is family therapy.
- Intake interview before therapy: Intake interview. Intakes that lead into therapy are intervention.
- Clinical interview as part of a testing battery: Other psychological assessment. An interview inside an assessment is assessment.
- Feedback session on test results: Other psychological assessment. Going over results with the client is logged as other psychological assessment.
- Scoring, interpreting or writing up tests: Support hours. Assessment work without the client present is support.
- Client filled in a self report questionnaire on their own: Support hours. You were not administering it. If you read the items aloud to the client, that time is assessment.
- Structured behavioral observation with a formal rating procedure: Other psychological assessment. Systematic observation with a formal procedure is assessment. Watching a client during treatment is not.
- Gave only some subtests of a psychodiagnostic measure: Psychodiagnostic test administration. Log the subtests you gave and their time as psychodiagnostic test administration, never the full measure.
- Gave only some subtests of a neuropsychological measure: Neuropsychological assessment. Log the subtests you gave and their time as neuropsychological assessment, never the full measure.
- Practice assessment for a class, with no real client: not logged. Class practice with no real clinical service is not practicum and is not logged.
- Phone call to schedule an appointment: Support hours. Calls that deliver no clinical service are support.
- Therapy or coaching by telephone: Telephone intervention. Clinical service by phone has its own category.
- Therapy by video: Individual therapy. Video sessions count as face to face, in the therapy category that fits.
- Therapy or assessment by text message: Support hours. Text based clinical work is placed in support.
- Talking to a client's psychiatrist to coordinate care, client not present: Support hours. Coordination between professionals without the client is support.
- Consulting with a client's teacher about the client: Consultation. Consultation with someone acting for the client is intervention. In a school counseling role, use school consultation.
- Supervising a junior student live, with my supervision itself supervised: Supervision of other students. Real time, supervised supervision of another student counts as intervention.
- Reviewing a junior student's notes or sending written feedback: Support hours. Indirect supervision work is support.
- Planning an outreach workshop: Support hours. Preparation is support; only delivering it is program development.
- A stress management group: Group counseling. It could be group counseling or medical and health related intervention. Choose one, never both.
- Writing an integrated report: Support hours. Writing time is support. Also log the finished report once as an integrated report.
- Case conference or didactic seminar: Support hours. Training and case discussion without clients are support.

## Speech language pathology graduate clock hours, 2027 standards

For: Speech language pathology graduate students finishing under the 2027 certification standards. Last reviewed 25 September 2026.

The clinical clock hour categories of the 2027 speech language pathology certification standards: graduate in-person direct contact, telepractice, clinical simulation, guided observation, undergraduate practicum and non-clinical care management, with each optional activity capped as the standard states.

Sources: [2027 SLP Certification Standards](https://www.asha.org/certification/2027-slp-certification-standards/), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Standards effective 1 August 2027, page read 2026-09-25; [2020 to 2027 SLP Certification Standards Crosswalk](https://www.asha.org/siteassets/certification/2020-2027-slp-certification-standards-crosswalk.pdf), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Linked from the standards page.

### General rules

- **Actual time only.** Only the time actually spent in the session counts, and it is never rounded up to the next quarter hour. Log real minutes.
- **Two student clinicians can share a session.** Up to two graduate student clinicians who both take an active part in a session can each count the whole session.
- **At least 250 hours graduate, on-site, in person.** The core of the 400 hours is graduate level direct contact where you, the person you serve and your clinical educator are all in the same place.
- **Up to 150 hours from the optional activities.** Telepractice, simulation, guided observation, undergraduate practicum and non-clinical care management can together supply at most 150 of the 400 hours, and each has its own ceiling. Hours over a ceiling stay in your log but are shown as not counting toward the 400.
- **325 hours while enrolled in graduate study.** At least 325 of the 400 hours must be earned while you are enrolled in an accredited graduate program. Undergraduate practicum and undergraduate observation do not count toward this.
- **Direct supervision of at least a quarter.** Your clinical educator must directly supervise at least 25 percent of your contact with each person you serve, in real time. Record supervised minutes on each entry if you want to keep an eye on it; the check itself is per person and per placement.
- **Your program decides.** Every optional activity is counted at the discretion of your graduate program, which verifies your hours.

### Categories

- **Graduate in-person direct contact**: Graduate level evaluation, treatment, prevention or counseling delivered on site, in person, with the person served or their care partners present and your clinical educator in the same location.
  - **Evaluation**: Screening and assessment in person.
  - **Treatment**: Intervention sessions in person.
  - **Prevention and counseling**: Prevention work and counseling of the person served or their care partners, in person.
- **Telepractice**: Direct clinical services delivered remotely, with a clinical educator available virtually or in person. Up to 125 hours count. Counts up to 125 hours.
  - **Telepractice evaluation**: Screening and assessment by telepractice.
  - **Telepractice treatment**: Intervention and counseling by telepractice.
- **Clinical simulation**: Time actively engaged in clinical simulation. Debriefing afterwards does not count. Up to 75 hours count. Counts up to 75 hours.
  - **Clinical simulation**: Active engagement with a simulated case.
- **Guided clinical observation**: Watching speech language pathology services, live or recorded, followed by a guided debrief with a qualified clinical educator. A debrief during the observation counts; one afterwards does not. Up to 25 hours count, undergraduate and graduate together. Counts up to 25 hours.
  - **Guided observation, graduate**: Guided observation done while enrolled in graduate study.
  - **Guided observation, undergraduate**: Guided observation done before graduate study.
- **Undergraduate practicum**: On-site, in-person direct contact earned at undergraduate level, in a communication sciences and disorders program or a speech language pathology assistant program. Up to 50 hours count, both programs together. Counts up to 50 hours.
  - **Undergraduate CSD practicum**: Practicum in an undergraduate communication sciences and disorders program.
  - **SLPA program practicum**: Practicum in a speech language pathology assistant program.
- **Non-clinical care management**: Work tied to your own clinical services done without the person or their care partners present. Up to 50 hours count. Counts up to 50 hours.
  - **Care management tasks**: Indirect work linked to sessions you provided. Examples: Writing notes and reports; Scoring and interpreting tests; Reviewing charts; Interprofessional care conferences; Programming an AAC device.

### Where common activities go

- Session by video with the client at home: Telepractice treatment. Remote delivery is telepractice, which is capped, not in-person contact.
- Writing the session note afterwards: Care management tasks. Indirect work without the person present is non-clinical care management.
- Debrief after a simulation: not logged. Simulation debriefing does not count as clock hours.
- Debrief after an observation, held later: not logged. Only a debrief during the observation counts toward observation time.
- Watching a recorded session, then a guided debrief: Guided observation, graduate. Recorded services can be observed; use the undergraduate leaf if it was before graduate study.
- Co-treating a session with one other student clinician: Treatment. Up to two active student clinicians can each count the whole session.
- Counseling a care partner in person: Prevention and counseling. Direct care includes counseling of care partners in person.
- Hours from my SLPA program: SLPA program practicum. Assistant program practicum shares the 50 hour undergraduate ceiling.

# The September 2026 practicum hours tracking guide, explained

URL: https://practicumledger-web.pages.dev/guides/practicum-hours-tracking-guide-2026/
Last reviewed: 26 September 2026

In September 2026 the organization that runs the psychology internship application published its first practicum hours tracking guide, version 1.0: a shared rulebook for which category each practicum activity belongs in. In short, only practicum your program approves counts, you report hours through 30 September of the year you apply, each activity is rounded up to the next 15 minutes, each hour goes in exactly one category, work done under live supervision is logged as the work itself, and support hours are reported as one total. It calls itself a living document, so check the current version before you apply.

## Check an existing log against the guide

If you started logging before September 2026, these steps bring your records in line with the guide. Do them with your director of clinical training, who verifies your hours.

1. **Confirm every experience is program approved.** Only practicum your director of clinical training accepts as program sanctioned goes in the practicum categories. Check anything unusual, such as clinical work in a research study or staying on at a site after the placement ended. Clinical work that is not approved practicum goes in the application's separate non practicum section instead.
2. **Round each activity, not each month.** A practicum hour is a clock hour, and each activity is rounded up to the next 15 minutes: 1 to 15 minutes is 0.25 hours, 16 to 30 is 0.50, and so on. Apply it entry by entry.
3. **Take live supervision out of the supervision totals.** Therapy or testing done while a supervisor watches live is logged as the therapy or testing. It is not counted again as individual or group supervision.
4. **Move the edge cases to support.** Shadowing without an active role, text based therapy or assessment, scheduling calls, scoring, report writing and case conferences are support hours.
5. **Split video from telephone.** Video sessions count as face to face with in-person work. Clinical work by telephone has its own telephone intervention and telephone assessment categories.
6. **Recount integrated reports.** A report counts once when it brings together history, interview findings and at least two psychological tests of personality, intellectual, cognitive or neuropsychological functioning. Rating scales and symptom checklists alone do not qualify.
7. **Separate terminal master's hours.** Hours from a master's earned inside your doctoral program are doctoral. Hours from a separate, stand alone master's program go in their own terminal master's columns.
8. **Split your log at 30 September.** Hours through 30 September of your application year are reported. Hours you expect after that are described as anticipated practicum experience instead.

## What the guide covers, and what it does not

The guide is about categorising practicum activities. It says plainly that it is not a how-to for completing the application itself, and it is independent of whatever you use to track hours, whether a program system, a spreadsheet or a commercial tracker. Questions about the application go to its own help pages; questions about a tracking tool go to that tool's makers.

It also sets a tone worth quoting in spirit: hours are a record of training, not a target to pile up. The guide asks programs and students to read them alongside the quality and breadth of the experience. It sets no minimum number of hours.

### The categories in one paragraph

Intervention covers face to face work in person or by video, split into individual therapy by age group, group, career, family and couples counseling, school interventions, other psychological interventions such as intakes and substance use work, consultation, work with students or organizations, and telephone intervention. Assessment covers psychodiagnostic, neuropsychological, other and telephone assessment, marked clinical or research. Integrated reports are a count. Supervision is individual or group, by your supervisor's credential. Support is everything else, as one total. Every category is defined in plain words on the [categories page](https://practicumledger-web.pages.dev/categories/).

## Worked example: why rounding each activity matters

In October a student sees clients for eight 50 minute sessions and makes four 20 minute clinical phone check-ins.

Table: The same month rounded per activity and rounded once

| Method | Therapy | Telephone | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Each activity rounded up (the guide's rule) | 8 x 1.00 = 8.00 h | 4 x 0.50 = 2.00 h | 10.00 h |
| Minutes added up, then rounded once | 400 minutes | 80 minutes | 480 minutes = 8.00 h |

Rounding once at the end reports two hours fewer than the guide's method, and puts them in one category instead of two. Over three years of practicum that gap becomes dozens of hours. The [practicum log](https://practicumledger-web.pages.dev/log/) stores your actual minutes and applies the rounding to each entry when it adds up your totals.

## Common mistakes

- Counting an hour in two categories. Categories are mutually exclusive; choose the one that fits best and ask your director of clinical training when unsure.
- Counting live supervision as both therapy and supervision.
- Reporting hours accrued after 30 September of your application year as accrued rather than anticipated.
- Counting a class practice assessment with no real client. It is not practicum.
- Splitting support into many subcategories. The application asks for one support total and a short description.
- Relying on an old copy of the guide. It is a living document; read the current version before you apply.

## Frequently asked questions

**When was the practicum hours tracking guide published?**

It was announced on 11 September 2026 as version 1.0, last revised September 2026. It describes itself as a living document that will be updated as questions arise.

**Does the guide say how many practicum hours I need?**

No. It sets no minimum and stresses that hours are a record of training rather than a number to accumulate. Minimums come from your program and from individual internship sites.

**Does the guide explain how to fill in the internship application?**

No. It covers which category an activity belongs in. For completing and submitting the application itself, it points to the application's own help resources.

**Who decides whether an activity counts as practicum?**

Your program. Your director of clinical training approves program sanctioned practicum and verifies your hours. The guide suggests discussing unclear activities with them using the guide.

## Sources

- [AAPI Practicum Hours Tracking Guide](https://www.appic.org/Portals/0/Website%20docs/AAPI_Prac_Hrs%20_Tracking_Guide_%20Sept%2010_2026.pdf), Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers, version 1.0, last revised September 2026, read 25 September 2026. Used for: The general rules, the intervention, assessment, integrated report, supervision and support categories, and the rounding table.
- [AAPI Hours Tracking Guide Now Available](https://www.appic.org/News-Articles/ArtMID/1931/ArticleID/129/AAPI-Hours-Tracking-Guide-Now-Available), Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers, announcement of 11 September 2026, read 25 September 2026. Used for: The publication date and where the guide lives.

# Direct vs indirect practicum hours, with examples

URL: https://practicumledger-web.pages.dev/guides/direct-vs-indirect-practicum-hours/
Last reviewed: 26 September 2026

Direct practicum hours are the intervention and assessment hours you spend with clients, in person or by video, plus clinical work by telephone, which has its own categories. Indirect hours are support hours: notes, chart review, scoring and report writing, case conferences, didactics and recording review. Supervision you receive is neither and is reported on its own. The internship application has no box literally named direct or indirect; it asks for intervention, assessment, supervision and support totals.

## Where common activities go

Table: Common practicum activities, their category, and whether they are direct

| Activity | Category | Direct or indirect |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Therapy session in person or by video | Individual therapy, by age group | Direct |
| Therapy while a supervisor watches live | The therapy category, not supervision | Direct |
| Active co-therapy with one client | Individual therapy | Direct |
| Caregiver alone, working on the child's behalf | Other interventions | Direct |
| Intake interview that leads into therapy | Intake interview | Direct |
| Administering a test battery | Psychodiagnostic or neuropsychological assessment | Direct |
| Feedback session on test results | Other psychological assessment | Direct |
| Therapy by telephone | Telephone intervention | Direct, own category |
| Therapy or assessment by text message | Support | Indirect |
| Shadowing without an active role | Support | Indirect |
| Scoring, interpreting and writing a report | Support | Indirect |
| Scheduling call with a client | Support | Indirect |
| Case conference or didactic seminar | Support | Indirect |
| One to one supervision you receive | Individual supervision, by credential | Neither, reported separately |

Two of these surprise people. Text based work is contact with a client but the guide places it in support. Live supervision is supervision in everyday speech but the guide logs it as the clinical work, and counting it again as supervision double counts the hour. The [categories page](https://practicumledger-web.pages.dev/categories/) has a finder with more activities.

## Why the split matters

Internship sites read your direct hours, especially intervention and assessment, as the clearest picture of your clinical experience, and many state their own minimums in those terms. Support hours matter too, as evidence of the documentation and training behind the contact, but they are one line in the application with a short description, so there is no need to track support subtypes separately.

Speech language pathology draws the line differently. Under the 2027 standards, in-person, telepractice and simulation hours are direct care, while non-clinical care management (notes, reports, scoring) can count up to 50 hours and guided observation up to 25. The [2027 speech language hours guide](https://practicumledger-web.pages.dev/guides/slp-clinical-hours-2027/) covers that set.

## Worked example: one practicum week

A student's week at a university counseling center: three 50 minute therapy sessions, one 2 h 10 m test administration, 1 hour of scoring, 45 minutes of notes, 1 hour of individual supervision with a licensed psychologist, and a 90 minute didactic seminar.

Table: The week sorted and rounded per activity

| Group | Activities | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Direct: intervention | 3 therapy sessions at 1.00 h each | 3.00 |
| Direct: assessment | Test administration, 130 minutes | 2.25 |
| Supervision | Individual, licensed psychologist | 1.00 |
| Indirect: support | Scoring 1.00, notes 0.75, seminar 1.50 | 3.25 |

Direct hours for the week are 5.25, supervision 1.00 and support 3.25. Each activity was rounded up to the next quarter hour on its own, as the guide asks. The [practicum log](https://practicumledger-web.pages.dev/log/) does this sorting and rounding as you save each entry.

## Common mistakes

- Logging live supervised therapy as supervision, or as both.
- Putting scoring and report writing under assessment. Assessment hours are the time with the client.
- Counting shadowing as intervention when you had no active role.
- Treating text based therapy as intervention hours.
- Rounding a week or a month of minutes once instead of rounding each activity.
- Keeping detailed support subcategories you will never report, instead of one total and a short description.

## Frequently asked questions

**Is supervision direct or indirect practicum time?**

Neither. Supervision you receive is reported in its own individual and group supervision categories, by your supervisor's credential.

**Do telehealth video sessions count as direct hours?**

Yes. The tracking guide combines in-person and video intervention into face to face hours. Only telephone work goes in the separate telephone categories.

**Do I need to track each kind of support activity separately?**

No. The application asks for one support total and a text description of the kinds of support work you did, so one running total is enough.

**Does writing an integrated report count as assessment?**

No. The writing time is support. The finished report is also counted once in the integrated reports count if it meets the definition.

## Sources

- [AAPI Practicum Hours Tracking Guide](https://www.appic.org/Portals/0/Website%20docs/AAPI_Prac_Hrs%20_Tracking_Guide_%20Sept%2010_2026.pdf), Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers, version 1.0, last revised September 2026, read 25 September 2026. Used for: The general rules, the intervention, assessment, integrated report, supervision and support categories, and the rounding table.
- [2027 Standards and Implementation Procedures for the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology](https://www.asha.org/certification/2027-slp-certification-standards/), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, effective 1 August 2027, read 26 September 2026. Used for: Standards V-C (400 hours, the 250 hour core, Table 1.A), V-D (325 hours in graduate study) and V-E (supervision).

# Speech language pathology graduate clinical hours in 2027: what changed

URL: https://practicumledger-web.pages.dev/guides/slp-clinical-hours-2027/
Last reviewed: 26 September 2026

Under the 2027 speech language pathology certification standards, effective 1 August 2027, you still need 400 supervised clinical clock hours, at least 250 of them graduate, on-site, in-person direct contact and at least 325 earned while enrolled in graduate study. What changed: the 25 guided observation hours are optional instead of required, up to 50 hours of non-clinical care management such as note and report writing can now count, two graduate student clinicians can each count a whole shared session, and debriefing held after an observation no longer counts toward observation time.

## 2020 and 2027 side by side

Table: Clinical clock hour rules under the 2020 and 2027 standards

| Rule | 2020 standards | 2027 standards |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Total clock hours | 400 | 400 |
| Guided observation | 25 hours required | Optional, up to 25 hours |
| Direct contact | 375 hours | 250 in-person core plus up to 150 from optional activities |
| Graduate, on-site, in-person minimum | 250 hours | 250 hours |
| Telepractice | Up to 125 hours | Up to 125 hours |
| Clinical simulation | Up to 75 hours, debriefing excluded | Up to 75 hours, debriefing excluded |
| Undergraduate practicum | Up to 50 hours | Up to 50 hours, CSD and SLPA programs combined |
| Notes, reports, scoring, chart review | Not counted | Up to 50 hours as non-clinical care management |
| Two students in one session | Each counts only their own direct contact time | Up to two active graduate clinicians each count the whole session |
| Hours while enrolled in graduate study | At least 325 | At least 325 |
| Rounding | Actual time, never rounded up to 15 minutes | Actual time, never rounded up to 15 minutes |

The 2020 column describes students who began graduate study on or after 1 January 2023; the 2020 page kept some telepractice flexibility for earlier starters. The optional activities in 2027 are each counted at your graduate program's discretion, and together they supply at most 150 of the 400 hours.

## Supervision and who can supervise

The supervision share is unchanged in substance: direct supervision of at least 25 percent of your contact with each person you serve, per placement, in real time. A clinical educator holds certification in the profession, has at least 9 months of full time clinical experience since certification, and has completed at least 2 hours of professional development in clinical instruction or supervision after certification and before supervising. For telepractice the educator must be available virtually or in person, and asynchronous supervision of simulation needs debriefing equal to at least 25 percent of each case's clock hours.

### Which standards apply to you

The standards page gives 1 August 2027 as the effective date. It does not spell out on that page which applicants fall under 2020 and which under 2027; it links a 2020 to 2027 crosswalk document. Ask your graduate program which set your hours are being verified against before you plan around care management or skip observation.

## Worked example: one student under both standards

A student has 260 graduate in-person hours, 90 telepractice, 30 simulation, 20 graduate guided observation, 40 undergraduate practicum and 60 hours of note and report writing.

1. Under 2027, cap each optional activity: care management counts 50 of its 60.
2. The optional activities then total 90 + 30 + 20 + 40 + 50 = 230 hours, and at most 150 count.
3. Counted hours: 260 + 150 = 410, which clears 400.
4. Graduate enrolled hours: even if all 40 undergraduate hours are among the 150, 410 minus 40 is 370, which clears 325.
5. Under 2020, the same student is 5 observation hours short of the required 25, and the 60 hours of writing count for nothing.

The [practicum log](https://practicumledger-web.pages.dev/log/) has the 2027 speech language set built in: it applies each ceiling, shows hours over a ceiling as not counting, and tracks the in-person core and the enrolled minimum.

## Common mistakes

- Rounding sessions up to the quarter hour. Speech language clock hours are actual minutes only.
- Counting simulation debriefing, or an observation debrief held afterwards, as clock hours.
- Counting more than 150 hours from the optional activities, or more than a single activity's ceiling.
- Counting care management that is not tied to sessions you provided yourself.
- Counting undergraduate hours toward the 325 hours required while enrolled in graduate study.
- Assuming the 2027 rules apply to you without asking your program which standards it verifies against.

## Frequently asked questions

**Are 25 observation hours still required in 2027?**

No. Under the 2027 standards guided observation is optional and up to 25 hours can count, at the discretion of your graduate program. Under the 2020 standards 25 observation hours are required.

**Can report writing count toward clinical clock hours in 2027?**

Yes, up to 50 hours of non-clinical care management, such as notes, reports, test scoring with interpretation, chart reviews, care conferences and programming AAC devices, when it is tied to services you provided.

**Can I round my clock hours to the nearest 15 minutes?**

No. Both the 2020 and the 2027 standards count only the actual time spent in sessions and say it cannot be rounded up to the nearest 15 minute interval.

**When do the 2027 speech language pathology standards take effect?**

The standards page gives 1 August 2027 as the effective date. Ask your graduate program which standards your hours will be verified against.

## Sources

- [2027 Standards and Implementation Procedures for the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology](https://www.asha.org/certification/2027-slp-certification-standards/), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, effective 1 August 2027, read 26 September 2026. Used for: Standards V-C (400 hours, the 250 hour core, Table 1.A), V-D (325 hours in graduate study) and V-E (supervision).
- [2020 Standards and Implementation Procedures for the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology](https://www.asha.org/certification/2020-slp-certification-standards/), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, effective 1 January 2020, read 25 September 2026. Used for: Standards V-C and V-D as they stood before 2027, for the comparison.

# Practicum hours tracker vs spreadsheet vs paid subscription

URL: https://practicumledger-web.pages.dev/guides/practicum-hours-tracker-vs-spreadsheet/
Last reviewed: 26 September 2026

Any of the three works, because the tracking guide is independent of the tool you use and the application takes your totals typed in by hand. A spreadsheet is free, but you build the categories, the per activity rounding, the 30 September cutoff and the age, setting and credential breakdowns yourself. A paid subscription tracker does that work and often adds program sign off, for a recurring fee. A free local tracker like this one does the categories and rounding on your device with no account, but has no program portal.

## What any method has to handle

- Every category the application asks for, with one category per activity.
- Rounding each activity up to the next 15 minutes, entry by entry.
- Client age groups for individual therapy, group and career counseling, and a treatment setting for every intervention and assessment activity.
- The number of different clients in each intervention and assessment category, without names.
- Supervision by individual or group and by supervisor credential.
- Integrated reports as a count, not hours.
- A split at 30 September of your application year, and doctoral kept apart from terminal master's hours.

Whatever you choose, check first whether your program requires a particular system. Some programs verify hours through one platform, and your director of clinical training is the one who signs off.

## The three side by side

Table: Spreadsheet, paid subscription tracker and this free local tracker compared

| Need | Spreadsheet | Paid subscription | This tracker |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cost | Free | A recurring fee | Free today |
| Categories from the 2026 guide | You build them | Usually built in | Built in, defined in plain words |
| Per activity rounding | A formula per row | Usually built in | Built in |
| 30 September split | A date filter | Varies | Built in once you set your year |
| Program sign off | Email the file | Often built in | No; print or export a summary |
| Account and upload | Your file | Account on their servers | No account, nothing uploaded |
| Moving between devices | Copy the file | Sign in anywhere | JSON backup and import |

No tracker can submit hours for you: you type your totals into the application by hand, whichever you use.

## Worked example: the spreadsheet formulas you need

Say each row is one activity with columns for date, category, minutes, age group, setting, client code, supervisor credential and level.

1. Reported hours per row: round minutes up to the next 15 and divide by 60, so 50 minutes gives 1.00 and 130 gives 2.25.
2. Totals: sum the reported hours column by category and age group, never the raw minutes.
3. Cutoff: filter rows dated on or before 30 September of your application year for the reported totals; the rest is anticipated.
4. Clients: count unique client codes per category, for the number of different clients.
5. Check: sum the reported hours of eight 50 minute sessions. If you get 6.67 instead of 8.00, your rounding is on the total, not the row.

If that sounds like more upkeep than you want, the [practicum log](https://practicumledger-web.pages.dev/log/) does all five, and the [categories page](https://practicumledger-web.pages.dev/categories/) tells you where an activity goes.

## Common mistakes

- Rounding the total rather than each activity.
- Typing client names into a shared spreadsheet. Use a private code.
- Paying for a subscription before checking whether your program already provides or requires one.
- Keeping hours in two systems that drift apart. Pick one record and export from it.
- Leaving the 30 September split to application season.
- Assuming any tracker can send hours to the application. You enter them yourself.

## Frequently asked questions

**Do I have to use a paid practicum hours tracker?**

No. The tracking guide says it is independent of the platform you use, and a spreadsheet is acceptable if it handles the categories and rounding. Your program may require a particular system, so ask first.

**Can this tracker send my hours to the internship application?**

No. The application is the only record that counts and you type the totals in by hand. The totals page lays them out in the order the application asks for them.

**Can I import hours from another tracker?**

Not directly. This log imports only its own backup files, so moving in means entering past totals yourself or starting from a term boundary.

**Where does this tracker keep my data?**

Only in your browser. Nothing is uploaded and there is no account. Export a backup, optionally locked with a passphrase, or a CSV for your program.

## Sources

- [AAPI Practicum Hours Tracking Guide](https://www.appic.org/Portals/0/Website%20docs/AAPI_Prac_Hrs%20_Tracking_Guide_%20Sept%2010_2026.pdf), Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers, version 1.0, last revised September 2026, read 25 September 2026. Used for: The general rules, the intervention, assessment, integrated report, supervision and support categories, and the rounding table.
- [2027 Standards and Implementation Procedures for the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology](https://www.asha.org/certification/2027-slp-certification-standards/), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, effective 1 August 2027, read 26 September 2026. Used for: Standards V-C (400 hours, the 250 hour core, Table 1.A), V-D (325 hours in graduate study) and V-E (supervision).

# Questions about Practicum Ledger

URL: https://practicumledger-web.pages.dev/faq/

## Answers

**Is Practicum Ledger affiliated with APPIC, ASHA or a match service?**

No. Practicum Ledger is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to APPIC, ASHA, any match service, any application portal, or any other association or board. It is an independent helper for keeping your own records.

**Can it send my hours to the internship application?**

No. The application is the only record that counts, and it cannot import from this app. The totals page lays your figures out in the order the application asks for them so you can type them in by hand.

**Which categories does it use?**

By default, the categories in the practicum hours tracking guide published in September 2026 for the psychology internship application: intervention, assessment, integrated reports, supervision and support, with age groups, settings and supervisor credentials where the guide asks for them. The second set is the 2027 speech language pathology graduate clock hour categories. Every definition is on the categories page in our own words, with a link to the source.

**Why are my totals a little higher than the minutes I logged?**

The psychology guide asks for each activity to be rounded up to the next 15 minutes, so a 50 minute session counts as 1.00 hour. The log keeps your actual minutes and applies the rounding to each entry when it adds up. The speech language pathology set uses actual minutes, never rounded.

**What happens to hours after 30 September?**

Once you choose the year you apply, hours logged after 30 September of that year are shown separately, because they are described as anticipated experience rather than reported as accrued.

**Does it tell me how many hours I need?**

No. Minimums come from your own program, and there is no single number that is enough. Type your program's minimums in as targets and the app shows your pace and when you would reach them. For the speech language pathology set, the totals also show the numbers the 2027 standard itself states.

**What is a client code?**

An optional private label, such as C12, so the app can count how many different clients you saw in each category. Never type a client's name or anything that identifies them.

**Where is my data?**

Only in this browser, in local storage. Nothing is uploaded and there is no account. Export a backup from the log page, optionally locked with a passphrase, or a CSV for your program.

**Can it tell me whether an activity counts or whether I am eligible?**

No. Your program decides which experiences are practicum and your director of clinical training verifies your hours. The categories page explains where an activity usually goes; when in doubt, ask your program.