Job Title: Speech-Language Pathologist
Status: Exempt
Reports to: Director of Special Programs/ECH
Dept./School: Special Services
Primary Purpose:
Provide speech therapy services to students with speech, voice, or language disorders. Provide therapeutic intervention to eliminate or reduce problems or impairments that interfere with their students’ ability to derive full benefit from the educational program under supervision.
Qualifications:
Education/Certification:
Bachelor’s degree in speech-language pathology from an accredited college or university
Valid Texas license as a speech-language pathologist granted by the State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (SBESLPA)
Special Knowledge/Skills:
Ability to use the accepted tests and measurements to assess communication disorders and conditions under supervision.
Knowledge of evaluation, habilitation, and rehabilitation of speech-language disorders and conditions under supervision.
Ability to instruct and manage student behavior.
Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
Major Responsibilities and Duties:
Therapy
1. Provide appropriate individual and group therapy to students consistent with speech and language goals contained in Individual Education Plans (IEP).
2. Evaluate student progress and determine readiness for termination of therapy services under supervision.
Assessment
3. Develop clinical management strategies or procedures and diagnostic statements by interpreting observations or data under supervision.
Consultation
4. Counsel and involve parents in remedial process.
5. Collaborate with classroom teachers to plan and implement classroom activities to improve communication skills of students.
6. Provide professional development in assigned schools to help personnel understand communication deficits in students.
7. Communicate effectively with colleagues, students, and parents regarding the accomplishment of therapy goals and needs of the student.
Student Management
8. Create an environment conducive to learning and appropriate for the maturity level and interests of students.
9. Establish control and administer discipline according to the Student Code of Conduct and student handbook.
Program Management
10. Assist in the selection of equipment and instructional materials.
Administration
11. Compile, maintain, and file all physical and computerized reports, records, and other required documents.
12. Comply with policies established by federal and state laws, State Board of Education rule, and board policy.
13. Comply with all district and campus routines and regulations.
14. Participate in professional development activities to improve skills related to job assignment.
Working Conditions:
Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:
Maintain emotional control under stress. Regular districtwide travel to multiple work locations as assisgned; moderate lifting and carrying. May be required to lift and transfer students to and from wheelchair or assist with positioning students with physical disabilities.
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