Speech and Language Therapist

Pottsgrove School District District Office - Pottstown, Pennsylvania Open in Google Maps

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Job : 5943972

Final date to receive applications: Oct 12, 2026 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Posted: Sep 29, 2026 4:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Position Title: Speech and Language Therapist

Division: Pupil Services

Reports to: Special Education Supervisors, and Building Principal

SUMMARY OF POSITION:

Speech/Language Therapists are itinerant professional specialists, who are responsible for providing a comprehensive speech and language program for individual students and/or groups of students within the location assigned by the program supervisor. Therapists work as members of a multidisciplinary team in the delivery of appropriate programs to students. Therapists provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and consultative services to students. The position will be working with students with autism in grades K-2 and grades 9-12.

Experience with Augmentative Alternative Communication is preferred.

DIMENSIONS AND ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS OF THE POSITION:

Speech/Language Therapists are professional educators, who supervise students individually and in groups while delivering therapy. There are no other supervisory duties attached to this position.

ESSENTIAL

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide comprehensive, integrative speech/language assessment and therapy for students in need of these service.
• Develop, implement, maintain, and document a program of therapy, which meets the needs of each student. Provide therapy in a consistent and productive manner that includes documentation of progress based on IEP goals
• Adhere to school district, intermediate unit, state, and federal guidelines
• Prepare and complete information relative to screenings, assessments, Evaluation Reports, IEPs, data collection and reports on progress, within the established timelines
• Collaborate with classroom teachers, staff members, therapists, and families to offer information, support, instruction, suggestions, and provide modeling of strategies that promote the student’s systematic progress toward skill development.
• Be familiar with best practices
• Participate in an ongoing program of staff development
• Maintain and submit in a timely manner individual student tracking and billing information, through submission of Penn Data forms, Access, and attendance reports, as directed by the Director of Pupil Services.
• Prepare and submit weekly and daily schedules, as directed
• Maintain a student caseload that approaches the upper limits of Pennsylvania’s Chapter 14 requirements for Speech/ Language therapists unless students’ needs warrant a reduced schedule and the Director of Pupil Services approves the therapist’s altered schedule.
• Develops and implements intervention strategies and follows multi-tiered systems of support model employed by the District.
• Completes medical assistance billing for eligible students.
• Supports in the acquisition of student assistive technology including AAC through insurance funding sources, where applicable.
• Documents speech and language therapy services and m aintains records in accordance with school district policies, as well as state and federal laws and regulations.
• Continues to acquire professional knowledge and learn of current developments in the educational field by attending seminars, workshops or professional meetings, or by conducting research, and by maintaining professional relationships.
• Consults with school staff, parents, administrators, physicians, community and other professionals in order to gather and communicate information to meet the speech and language therapy needs…