Teacher Deaf Hard of Hearing DHH - Chattanooga TN W2 or 1099 option

ABOUT THRIVE THERAPIES

Thrive Therapies Group is a pediatric healthcare organization on a mission to revolutionize the care of children with disabilities and those facing barriers to access. We provide results-driven services and intelligent tools to support children’s development, well-being, and health. At the heart of this mission are the people who change the trajectories of children’s lives. We work for them.

We work exclusively in K–12 schools — because school is where clinical care becomes transformative. Roughly half of all children identified with a disability receive their services in schools, not in healthcare settings. For many of those children, the school-based clinician is the care. Thrive is built around that reality.

We work exclusively with historically under-resourced, neurodiverse K–12 communities. Equity isn’t a tagline — it’s the core of why we exist. Our school partners request Thrive by name because they want better outcomes for students with disabilities.

There are organizations that place clinicians in schools. Thrive is something different. We are a pediatric healthcare organization built around a singular belief: that school is where clinical care becomes transformative — that a therapy goal in a clinic is a therapy goal, but a therapy goal in a school becomes a friendship on the playground, a kid who feels they belong, a child who gets to participate in the full arc of childhood.

Everything we build — our technology, our workload model, our clinical community — exists to protect that work and the clinicians who deliver it.

Thrive uses a workload model that accounts for the full scope of DHH teaching — assessment, direct instruction, materials adaptation, and consultation — sized to be sustainable for the full school year.

Our AI-powered tools were built by clinicians who were tired of losing evenings to documentation. They handle evaluation report generation, session notes, paperwork, and progress summaries — and they give our clinicians 10+ hours back every week. The tools are continuously improved based on clinician feedback. They belong to you as much as anyone.

You have a community here and are never alone. You have clinical supervision through a role-alike leader, quarterly professional development, monthly communities of practice, and peers across the organization you can reach every day.

As a Thrive DHH Teacher in the Greater Chattanooga, TN region, you will provide specialized instruction and support to students K–12 who are deaf or hard of hearing within the school setting. You will evaluate auditory and communication access, develop IEP goals targeting language and literacy development, and ensure that students have equitable access to the educational environment. You are a full member of the community.

• Conduct educational assessments of communication, language, listening, and academic skills for students who are deaf or hard of hearing in collaboration with audiologists and SLPs
• Evaluate the impact of hearing loss on educational performance and recommend service hours, placement, and accommodations based on functional communication and access needs
• Write evaluation reports that are educationally relevant, legally defensible, and accessible to IEP team members and families
• Participate in eligibility determination meetings and audiological review meetings

• Develop individualized IEP goals targeting spoken language, signed language, listening and spoken language development, literacy, self-advocacy, and use of hearing technology
• Deliver direct academic instruction and language development support using the student’s primary communication mode (ASL, spoken language, Cued Speech, Total Communication, or simultaneous communication) as appropriate
• Support cochlear implant and hearing aid users in optimizing device benefit within the educational environment
• Adapt and modify instructional materials and assessment conditions to ensure equitable access across all academic areas
• Maintai…