Template Letters

Use these free templates to ask employers, licensing boards and state Medicaid agencies to rely on the state license instead of the ASHA CCC. Download the Word file to edit, replace every highlighted field with your own details, and send.

Letter to an employer

Ask your employer to require a state license, not the CCC, in SLP job descriptions, postings and credentialing. Includes answers to common pushback.
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Letter to a state licensing board

Ask your board to replace any reference to the CCC (including "CCC or equivalent") with clear, state-set licensing requirements. Includes model rule language.
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Guide and letter: get the CCC out of your state's Medicaid rules

Step-by-step instructions for asking your state Medicaid agency to amend its rule, plus a template letter with model language.
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Before you send, look up your state on the SLP State Resource Map to see exactly where (and whether) the CCC appears in its license and Medicaid rules.

Thank you to Brooke Richardson, MS, SLP, for collaborating with us on the original employer and licensing board letters.