Special Education Speech Therapist - Connors Elementary School

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serves as a resource to school staff members in the development of a balanced program for oral communication and speech improvement.
• Affords assistance and guidance to teachers in observing, describing, and referring suspected and identified speech and language impairments.
• Provides thorough assessment and diagnosis of speech, voice, and language impairments.
• Conducts screening to identify speech handicapped children at regular intervals and at specified levels.
• Affords proper referrals of individuals to agencies and specialists in the community.
• Provides appropriate individualized programs of therapy to meet individual students' needs and correct existing speech or language handicaps.
• Collaborates with classroom teachers and other school staff members to implement therapy by suggestions for the student's daily activities.
• Provides information, support, and counseling to parents and families when appropriate.
• Supervises students

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree requirement, Masters preferred.
• Certification as Speech Therapist.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to instructional program; ability to plan and implement lessons based on division and school objectives and the needs and abilities of students to whom assigned.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, peers, parents and community; ability to speak clear and concisely in written or oral communication.
• Regularly sits, occasionally walks and stands.
• Continuous hearing in a quiet and/or noisy environment.