Social Communications Special Education Aide

Social Communications Special Education Aide – 7 hrs. per day / 5 days per week

Oak Hills Local School District – Delshire Elementary School, Cincinnati, Ohio

Position: Social Communications Special Education Aide

Hours /

Schedule:

7 hrs. per day, 5 days per week

Terms of Employment: Student school year. Salary as per instructional assistant salary schedule.

Filing Deadline: Until Filled.

• Valid state department of education license/permit as determined at the time of appointment.
• Meets all mandated state/federal criteria (approved degree, completion of requisite higher education credit hours/courses, or acceptable score on an authorized professional standards test).
• Behavioral management skills substantiated by training or work experience. Duties may require agility, physical strength, and stamina to address the needs of students with problem behavior and/or students requiring physical assistance.
• Complies with drug‑free workplace rules, board policies and administrative guidelines/procedures.
• Demonstrates dependability and flexibility, reacting to interruptions and emerging priorities effectively.
• Embodies high ethical standards and integrity, accepting personal responsibility for decisions and conduct.
• Exhibits consistent, impartial, and resourceful critical‑thinking skills.
• Maintains a record free of criminal violations that would prohibit public school employment.

Position may require successful completion of communicable disease, child abuse/neglect, CPR, and/or first aid training as a condition of employment.

Performs duties that facilitate the effective delivery and advancement of program services.

• Works effectively with minimal supervision; performs tasks efficiently to meet deadlines.
• Provides student assistance with daily living activities, behavior management, discrete trial training, instructional support, social skills training, and task redirection.

• Uses a variety of techniques (recorded texts, tactile graphics, braille) to adapt materials for the student and teacher, ensuring accuracy and appropriateness.
• Provides braille output using braille translation software, electronic rapid braille production systems, braille writers, etc.
• Operates and assists assigned students in the use of specialized equipment (braillers, keyboarding equipment, electronic scanners, personal computers, etc.).
• Performs basic braille formatting for literacy, foreign language, and Nemeth Code Rules; translates student brailled materials as requested by the teacher.

• Performs non‑teaching classroom and ancillary duties under the direct supervision of an assigned teacher.
• Helps individuals or small groups of students with remedial or enrichment activities.
• Helps students with disabilities participate in appropriate classroom activities as directed.

• Helps individuals or small groups of students with remedial or enrichment activities; reinforces instructional objectives introduced by the teacher.
• Helps implement intervention strategies identified in individualized educational plans (IEP).
• Prepares and distributes program materials, sets up classroom equipment, keeps program areas orderly, and cleans/maintains equipment as directed.

• Provides support services including assistance with daily living activities, behavior management, discrete trial training, instructional support, social skills training, and task redirection.
• Supports an inclusive educational environment; helps students with disabilities participate in appropriate learning activities and assists with behavior management plans when required.
• Facilitates student mobility and helps students use assistive and/or augmentative devices.
• Assists students with personal care (catheterization, changing clothing, diapering, toileting, etc.) as trained by a health care professional, following standard hygiene/sanitation procedures.

• Determines seat assignments, takes attendance, ensures students have books and classroom assignments, and helps students with questions.
• Authenticates student permission to leave the room; tracks the location of each assigned student.
• Controls student…