Duties
Planning and Preparation
- Demonstrates knowledge and skill in providing speech therapy
- Establishes goals for therapy program appropriate to the setting and students served
- Demonstrates knowledge of the district, state, and federal regulations and guidelines
- Demonstrates knowledge of resources, both within and beyond the school and district
- Plans the therapy program, integrated with the regular school program, to meet the needs of individual students
- Prepares for and directly participating in the development and on-going review of each of their student’s individualized education plans (IEPs)
Classroom/Therapeutic Environment
- Establishes rapport with the students
- Organizes time effectively
- Establishes standards of conduct in the treatment center
- Organizes physical space for testing of students and providing therapy
Curriculum and Instruction
- Establishes and maintains clear procedures for referrals in both MTSS and Special Education
- Responds to referrals, evaluating student needs
- Utilizes culturally sensitive evaluation procedures
- Screens and evaluates District 68 children ages 3 through eighth grade
- Participates in pre-school screenings, play-based assessments, and home visits as needed.
- Assesses student growth and present levels of performance utilizing a variety of evidence-based measures
- Understands the differences in language development for students who are emerging bilinguals
- Develops
- Develops and implements treatment plans to maximize students’ success
- Performs all tasks and reports for IEP meetings within legal guidelines
- When applicable, supports the integration of assistive technology or other augmentative communication systems to support communication.
- Communicates with families
- Collects information; writing reports
- Maintains thorough on-going records for each student.
- Demonstrates flexibility and responsiveness
- Provides direct receptive and expressive language instruction in both general education and special education settings to students in whole-class, small-group, and individual settings
- Assist in the development of school-wide speech and communication initiatives.
Professional Responsibilities and Personal Qualities
- Reflects on practice
- Maintains effective data and management system
- Participates in on-going professional development
- Shows professionalism, including integrity, advocacy, and maintaining confidentiality
- Demonstrates culturally respectful and responsible practices, makes referrals for specialized assessments and services as needed
- Develops data-collection methods to assist in measuring student progress in the areas of receptive and expressive language
- Determines both initial and continuing eligibility for speech and languages services for students using research-based assessments
- Utilizes the District’s electronic IEP database when preparing for and updating each of their student’s individualized education plans (IEPs)
- Collaborates with parents, private therapists, and other agencies to gain and share information
- Accurately completes all paperwork associated with the position of Speech and Language Therapist
- Updates principal, coordinator, and Director of Special Services regularly about caseload and student concerns.
- Provides leadership with respect to assistive technology for students and staff
- Resolves conflict through effective problem-solving to constructively address student, staff, and parent concerns
Link to District/Third Party Online Application Web Page
https://www.applitrack.com/d68/onlineapp/default.aspx