All applications will be reviewed by the Professional Development Committee with the following established criteria:

1) A minimum period of three years successful practice as a Disability Support Professional is necessary prior to becoming eligible for certification.  Successful Practice is herein defined as the performance of at least satisfactory work with the Disability Support Professional applying not in a probationary or conditional status with the employing agency.

2) A minimum of a high school diploma is necessary unless the employing agency Has a policy requiring or permitting other basic education as an equivalency.

3) A minimum of 6 hours of medical training; 12 hours of interpersonal Communications training and 36 hours of technical training must be satisfactorily completed.  This training should be in an organized course of instruction presented under the supervision of, or the approval of the employing agency.  (This does not equate with college hours.)

4) A Disability Support Professional must be a full member in good standing of NADE which requires current membership in the organization.

5) The Disability Support Professional will subscribe to the NADE Code of Ethics.

Upon receipt of sufficient documentation that the individual Support Professional meets all of the above stipulated requirements, a certificate will be printed and issued.  The review of submitted credentials and issuance of the certificates will require several weeks time.

The special form, NADE 101 National Association of Disability Examiners application for certification, is available from the Professional Development Committee Chairperson or the NADE website @ www.nade.org

revised May 2003