Speech Language Pathologist Anticipated

Overview

The speech-language pathologist is responsible for evaluating and providing speech-language services to students with Individual Education Programs in the schools.

• Supervises speech-language assistants as per state regulations.
• Serves as a resource to school staff members in the development of a balanced program to promote students’ receptive and expressive language skills for school success.
• Provides an individualized education program to meet individual needs of speech-language disabled students.
• Assists and guides teachers in the understanding of normal and disordered developmental milestones and referring suspected and identified speech-language disabilities.
• Provides a thorough assessment and diagnosis of speech-language disorders and disabilities using culturally and linguistically appropriate methods.
• Provides screening to identify students with suspected speech-language disabilities.
• Assists in proper referrals of individuals to agencies and specialists in the community as appropriate.
• Collaborates with classroom teachers and other school staff members to implement age and linguistically appropriate accommodations and intervention strategies in the classroom.
• Provides information, support, and counseling to parents and families when appropriate in a multicultural and multilingual setting.
• Provides in-service education and serves as a consultant to teachers and school staff members on topics concerning first and second language acquisition and speech-language disorders/disabilities.
• Keeps thorough ongoing records for individual students receiving speech-language services.
• Maintains lists of referred, screened, and eligible students, as well as a directory of outside agencies, consultants, specialists and related services.
• Compiles case history data on cases where additional family history, health history, early developmental history, and environmental history are deemed appropriate.
• Keeps track of and inventories speech-language evaluation tools and intervention materials in the schools.

• Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology
• Certificate of Clinical Competence or Clinical Fellowship Candidacy, ASHA
• MA DESE License and MA State License in Speech-Language Pathology (All Grade Levels)

• Maintains and manages a caseload comprised of speech-language disabled students in the schools.
• Works collaboratively with the Evaluation Team Leader and school team to develop educationally based IEPs for speech-language disabled students.

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