Speech and Language Pathologist

Position Type: Student Support Services/ Speech and Language Pathologist

Date Posted: 10/6/2025

Location: Perry Early Learning Center

District: Ypsilanti Community Schools

Position Title: Speech and Language Pathologist

Reports To: Director of Student Support Services

Salary: $47,950.00 - $57,550.00

Utilizing leadership, advocacy and collaboration, the Speech and Language Pathologist provides prevention, assessment and remediation services for students who exhibit difficulties in the areas of language, speech, voice and fluency and are designed to help students meet their educational needs. The Speech and Language Pathologist continuously improves their practice through professional learning and collaboration with peers.

• Commits to ongoing learning and the development of their craft; encourages, supports and mentors ongoing learning in students.
• Commits to high expectations for students, developing a vision of success for each student and moving that student towards its achievement.
• Commits to positive relationships and communication, promoting and modeling a safe and supportive learning culture for all.
• Commits to honoring all students, embracing their community and diversity.
• Commits to establishing a learning environment through collaborative approaches that is accountable for effective instruction, assessment and data-driven decision-making.
• Commits to using community resources to improve instruction.
• Commits to collegiality and professionalism of self and staff.

• Uses a variety of appropriate formal and informal tools and techniques including observations and interviews to evaluate the progress and performance of students and families.
• Assesses to determine students' communication skills (e.g., articulation, fluency, voice, expressive and receptive language, etc.) for the purposes of developing recommendations for prevention and intervention plans that enable students to benefit from their educational experience.
• Collaborates and consults with educational teams to implement strategies that focus on the interrelationship of language processes of listening, speaking, reading, and writing and literacy development for students at risk or with communication disorders.
• Consults with educational teams and a variety of groups to develop their understanding of a full range of communication disorders and the impact on student achievement.
• Participates on the multidisciplinary educational team and educational planning process to identify communication disorders, determining program eligibility and developing services recommendations.
• Works collaboratively with staff to create instructional intervention plans to support learning targets in communication/language/speech in all educational settings.
• Instructs staff for the purpose of providing information on communicative disorders, use of assistive devices and feeding techniques and implementing prevention and intervention plans.
• Uses a broad range of strategies and classroom structures appropriately aligned to the learning targets.
• Understands and intentionally uses formative assessment in the classroom to inform instruction and students learning for students with communication concerns.
• Collects, analyzes, and interprets various formal and informal assessments and evaluation strategies to evaluate and modify interventions to support the educational program.
• Participates in collegial conversations surrounding student achievement on a regular basis, influencing individual, grade, and/or department instruction based on collective examination of student performance.
• Promotes services to students and their families within the context of multicultural understanding and competence that enhances families' support of students learning experiences.
• Collects and integrates information about community heritage in instruction.
• Provides services to students in ways that build upon individual strengths and offers students maximum opportunities to participate in the planning and direction of their own learning experience.
• Coordinates meetings and processes for eligible students (e.g., testing/screening, IEPs, parent…