Bil Speech Therapist (0.8

Position Title

Speech and Language Pathologist

Bargaining Unit: ETA

Department /

Location:

Special Education

Work Days: 184

Reports To: Assistant Director of Special Education

JD Revision Date: 06-14-2023

Supervises: N/A

To work with parents, students, and staff in order to prevent, identify, evaluate, and remediate a wide range of oral communication problems, including articulation, voice, fluency and language disorders.

• Prevention can include consultation, in-service training, and speaking with parents and parent groups.
• Identification can include pre‑referral (student‑support teams), screenings, and referrals for the evaluation process.
• Assessment may include data collection through standardized or non‑standardized measures, interpretation, report writing, sharing results with parents and staff, determining eligibility for services, and developing IEPs.
• Intervention can include caseload management (scheduling), direct remediation within the educational setting, pull‑out services, consulting on academic and social issues, developing ongoing goals, documenting progress, collaborating with classroom teachers, and holding annual review meetings.
• Completing caseload records for special education funding.
• Maintaining student IEPs and evaluations on web‑based computer program.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting.

• Illinois Certificate with Speech and Language Pathology endorsement (Type 73 or Type 10 or Type 03/09).
• Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Speech Language Pathologist License.
• Master's degree or higher in Speech Language Pathology.

• Must work in noisy and crowded environments.
• Indoors or outdoors in a busy school environment.
• Frequently work at a fast pace with unscheduled interruptions.
• May be required to leave main work site to attend meetings.
• Public contact requiring appropriate business‑like apparel.

• Requires prolonged sitting or standing.
• Occasionally requires physical exertion to manually move, lift, carry, pull, or push heavy objects or materials.
• Occasional stooping, bending, and reaching.

• The starting salary for this role is $60,689.