What are the responsibilities and job description for the Speech-Language Pathologist position at Association of Charter School Education Services?
SUMMARY:
Public School Speech-Language pathologists are communication specialists who work with students with significant language delays and/or disorders, articulation deficits, dysfluencies and voice disorders.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES:
- Demonstrates knowledge of techniques to screen and assess student’s needs appropriate to age level in the area of speech and language development.
- Coordinates student schedules for therapy services.
- Refers to agencies and staff.
- Describes normal speech, language process and their development, including:
- Language and speech development including semantics, syntax, morphology and phonology, fluency and voice
- Physiology, anatomy, and neurology of speech and language
- Social and cultural aspects of speech and language development
- Acoustics and psychoacoustics
- Speech and language production and perception
- Communicative process, i.e. progmatics, pre-verbal, verbal and co-verbal
- Evaluate speech and language delays and disorders including:
- Select, administer and interpret appropriate tests of speech, language, hearing and cognitive
- Listen discriminately to the individual’s speech and language
- Transcribe speech and language samples accurately and completely
- Examine and evaluate oral peripheral structure and function
- Perceive and record other behavioral cues
- Gather pertinent information about the individual
- Differentiate bilingual bicultural patterns from language delays and disorders
- Request additional diagnostic assistance
- Analyze and interpret finding for sue in diagnosis and recommendations
- Reports results to appropriate staff and family members
- Conduct and interpret otologic pure-tome screenings and impedance audiometry screening as needed.
- Plan the therapeutic Program by developing criteria for case load selection and by selecting designing and/or modifying specialized approaches and curricula for the communicatively impaired.
- Develop and implement IEP’s for assigned students
- Participates in Medicaid in the school billing process
- Shall work 153 days at 8 hours daily.
- Shall be entitles to all fringe benefits as accrued by all nine month employees.
- Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ABILITIES REQUIRED:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to instructional programs
- Ability to plan and implement lessons based on division and school objectives and the needs and abilities of students whom assigned.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, peers, parents and community.
- Ability to speak clear and concisely in written or oral communication.
- Ability to demonstrate a positive attitude and collaboration in all work related activities.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Supervises students and Speech Language Assistants, as assigned
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
- Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
REASONING ABILITY:
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusion.
- Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
Minimum of MA Degree from accredited college or university with current New Mexico Public Education Department Certificate and License. Bilingual Person Preferred.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:
New Mexico Licensure Certification as a Speech Pathologist (NM Speech/Language, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensary Licensure Board)