Speech-Language Pathologist - Wardlaw

Essential Responsibilities And Duties

• Plan and implement appropriate interventions for children with mild-to-moderate language-based learning disabilities.
• Derive remediation strategies and goals from students’ psycho-educational evaluations as well as from diagnostic therapy, testing, and teaching.
• Evaluate students as needed to further define language strengths and weaknesses.
• Interpret language difficulties in terms of their impact on academic progress.
• Work collaboratively with the classroom teacher to establish and implement appropriate language goals for each student.
• Provide individual and small-group “pull-out” therapy as well as whole-class language instruction as appropriate.
• Complete speech and language sections for two written reports per school year and participate in parent-teacher conferences.
• Communicate effectively with parents and teachers.
• Serve a typical full-time caseload of 3 classrooms (36 students).