Speech Pathologist 2025-26 School Year

1. Using generally accepted tests and assessment techniques and procedures, diagnoses and treats the communicative abilities of students in at least these areas: articulation/phonology, cognition, motor speech, dysphasia, voice, fluency, craniofacial anomalies, hearing, and child and adult language.
2. Works with multi-disciplinary team that includes teachers and paraprofessionals, to develop individual education plans based on assessments. The plans include instructional and remedial exercises. 
3. Develops short and long range therapeutic goals and treatment programs to meet students' individual needs in physicians, audiologists, psychologists, social workers, physical and occupational therapists, couselors, and teachers conjunction with individual education plans. 
4. Educates students and parents of the behaviors and activities that can characterize communicative disorders and develops exercises, learning and social experiences, and individual education plans to enhance communicative abilities.
5. Integrates services with instructional technology and consistent with common core curriculum and methods to help students accomplish academic goals.
6. Follows up with students who have been dismissed from special programs to evaluate academic and behavioral progress. 
7. Serves as a resource member on a student study team for one or more schools.
8. Participates in multi-disciplinary staff conferences with school, county and community professionals.
9. Educates school administrators, teachers, and support staff with speech/language and hearing pathology services and appropriate interventions. 
10. Plans and facilitates parent and teacher conferences that involve verbal and cognitive speech/language and hearing matters. Confers with parents and professional staff on a frequent and timely basis regarding each student's progress.
11. Participates in the development and/or selection of materials that enhance learning and enhancement of communicative skills and abilities.
12. Works and interacts with peers, as individuals and/or in team/group settings, in a professional manner that contributes to the District’s academic achievement goals.
13. Maintains up-to-date knowledge of new developments in the profession, including methods that would serve education goals.
14. Provides in-service demonstrations and assistance to other teachers and support staff on processesand techniques that reinforce speech and hearing therapies.
15. Performs other duties as assigned that support the overall objective of the position.

1. Attends professional conference, workshops and advanced courses in communicative and allied professional fields
2. Reads current journals and literature in communications and allied professional fields
3. Reviews new materials and equipment
4. Actively participates in local, state and national professional speech and hearing organizations
5. Attends local meetings when requested and scheduled professional staff meetings
6. Speaks to professional, parent and community groups as requested.

Salary : $91,894 - $124,535