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Salary Range: $60,000.00 To $100,000.00 Annually
The Speech and Language therapist provides speech therapy services as designated by a student’s IEP.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with teachers, other related service providers and parents to ensure understanding of student’s occupational performance strengths and needs, through evaluation, educational program planning, and service delivery.
- Evaluate students through a variety of functional, behavioral, and standardized assessments, skilled observation, checklists, histories, and interviews.
- Synthesize evaluation results into a comprehensive written report which reflects strengths and barriers to student participation in the educational environment.
- Participate in multidisciplinary meetings to review evaluation results, integrate findings with other disciplines, offer recommendations, and develop individual education plans and intervention plans to achieve IEP goals.
- Provide targeted, evidence-based therapeutic intervention to facilitate student participation and speech and language performance within the school environment.
- Collect data for decision making and progress monitoring.
- Schedule direct services using a variety of service delivery models, including classroom intervention, consultation/collaboration and pull-out sessions as appropriate to meet student needs in the least restrictive environment.
- Maintain easily accessible and accurate student files.
- Safeguard confidentiality of student records.
- Complete logging of services for third party reimbursement accurately and in a timely manner.
- Monitor and reassess the effects of specific occupational therapy intervention and the need to continue, modify, or discontinue services.
- Adapt and modify environments, equipment, and materials.
- Train instructional staff to meet individual needs and to help students function as independently as possible.
- Manage inventory of therapeutic equipment.
- Attend reconvened Team meetings and parent-teacher conferences.
- Attend all IEP meetings in accordance with assigned students.
- Develop appropriate IEPs and/or 504 Plans based on students’ strengths and needs and demonstrates awareness of professional performance in due process matters and litigious environments.
- Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Principal or the Special Ed Director.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Speech Therapy or Speech‑Language Pathology.
- Experience teaching and/or working in an urban school system with special needs students.
- Knowledge of sensory motor integration techniques.