Start here: keeping continuing education current across travel licenses
Travel Therapy CEUs is for travel PTs, OTs, SLPs and assistants who hold more than one license, and the place to begin is the requirements by state page, then the four guides below. The guides are written, while the compact lists and the home page FAQ are filled in from data files that name their official sources and the date they were checked.
Who is this site for?
The site is for therapists whose continuing education has stopped being simple: travelers licensed in more than one state, holders of a compact privilege, and OTs and SLPs who also keep a national certification with NBCOT or ASHA. Each license has its own hours, topic rules and renewal date, and the site is about keeping all of them current without paying for the same hours twice.
If you hold a single license and never travel, the board’s own site will usually tell you all you need. This site starts where licenses, privileges and certifications begin to overlap.
It does not sell courses. It explains how requirements work, where they overlap, and what to keep in case a board audits you.
Where should you start?
- CEU requirements by state: a planning reference for PT, OT and SLP requirements, with the advice to find your strictest state and plan your courses around it.
- Keeping CEUs current across state licenses: how to set up your renewal dates once and time courses around contracts rather than around renewals.
- CEUs and compact privileges: why a privilege usually means one home-state CE cycle, and where a state adds a requirement of its own.
- CEUs at a new license’s first renewal: a recent guide to the boards that waive or prorate hours the first time, quoted from the Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Mexico and New York rules.
- State CEUs and NBCOT or ASHA renewal: a recent guide to when one course can count for a state license and a national certification at the same time.
After those, read what a CE audit asks for before your next renewal, so your records are ready if you are sampled. The CEU FAQ collects shorter answers to common continuing education questions.
What on this site comes from data, and what is written?
The guides are written. They explain how boards treat continuing education and quote the board or the certifying body where a rule matters. Board rules change, so treat any hour count on a written page as a starting point and confirm it on the board’s own site before you renew. The renewal and first-renewal guides quote board rules directly and say which board each quote comes from.
Two parts are rendered from data files instead:
- The lists of states issuing OT Compact and ASLP-IC privileges on the compact privileges page come from CompactConnect’s live lists and the commissions’ own pages, and the PT Compact count comes from the PT Compact Commission. Each line names its source and the date it was checked.
- The home page FAQ quotes ASHA, NBCOT, the PT Compact Commission and the IRS word for word, with a link to each source, among them ASHA’s requirements for maintaining certification and NBCOT’s renewal page, and the date each was read.
How do you reach a recruiter?
The home page form, under Need Help Navigating CEU Requirements?, asks for your discipline and your email, and its line reads: “A recruiter emails you about your request.” The guides end with the same kind of form, sent with the Find my next contract button, and the job alerts page emails new contracts in your discipline, daily or weekly.
ProTherapy Staffing, which publishes this site, is owned and run by licensed physical therapists.
When your CEUs are in order and you want a contract in the states you hold, ask a ProTherapy recruiter: Find my next contract.
What should you ask an agency about CEUs?
Ask whether it pays for continuing education at all, how much, and whether the amount runs per contract or per calendar year, and get the answer in writing with the offer. Ask too whether it reimburses license fees, since a new state license brings its own renewal clock. Some agencies pay a fixed amount a year and others cover specific courses; either way, the useful number is what you still pay after the benefit, across every license you hold.
The CEU reimbursement guide covers how to ask and how to time your purchases so a benefit is not lost between contracts.
Frequently asked questions
Which license should I plan my courses around?
Your strictest one: the license with the most hours or the most specific topic rules. Courses that satisfy it often cover the others, but check each board’s approved-provider rules before you count a course twice.
Will a course count for my state license and my NBCOT or ASHA certification?
Often it can, but each keeps its own cycle and its own rules. Keep the certificate, and check that the course meets both the board’s rules and the certifying body’s before you rely on it for both.
What should I keep in case I am audited?
The certificate for every course, filed by state and renewal cycle, with the provider, the date and the hours on it. Boards check a sample of licensees after renewal, and missing paperwork is where travelers come unstuck.
Sources
- ASHA, Requirements for Maintaining Your ASHA Certification, read October 25, 2026
- NBCOT, Renew, read October 25, 2026