What are the responsibilities and job description for the Speech Language Pathologist position at The Maryland School for the Blind?
Description
SUMMARY: With supervision, provides assessment, treatment, and consultation for speech and language impairments and safe feeding practices as a member of a trans-disciplinary team.
Accountabilities
Essential Functions:
Equipment Used: Variety of Low-, Mid-, and High-tech AAC devices and equipment, adaptive feeding equipment, computers/tablets.
Performance Standard: Must consistently demonstrate clinical competence in all areas of performance consistent with recognized standards of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
Work Environment: Multiple indoor environments, on and off campus, with various sound, lighting, and temperature conditions.
Work Schedule: 21 hours per week with a daily 30-minute unpaid lunch break. Additional time and flextime scheduling may be required for job completion. This position has an annual 10-month schedule and is benefits eligible.
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
Knowledge, Skills, And General Abilities
SUMMARY: With supervision, provides assessment, treatment, and consultation for speech and language impairments and safe feeding practices as a member of a trans-disciplinary team.
Accountabilities
Essential Functions:
- Manages a clinical caseload scheduling students, providing direct and indirect services, maintaining records, and participates as a member of each student’s trans-disciplinary team.
- Provides consultation to staff, parents, and community-based professionals.
- Monitors the implementation of program plans.
- Designs, fabricates as necessary, updates and monitors the use of augmentative and alternative communication systems and materials.
- Continues professional development and education.
- Provides in service training.
- May supervise graduate student clinicians.
- Works together with the Speech/Language Department to meet the needs of the students, school, and the department.
- Performs additional duties as assigned.
Equipment Used: Variety of Low-, Mid-, and High-tech AAC devices and equipment, adaptive feeding equipment, computers/tablets.
Performance Standard: Must consistently demonstrate clinical competence in all areas of performance consistent with recognized standards of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
Work Environment: Multiple indoor environments, on and off campus, with various sound, lighting, and temperature conditions.
Work Schedule: 21 hours per week with a daily 30-minute unpaid lunch break. Additional time and flextime scheduling may be required for job completion. This position has an annual 10-month schedule and is benefits eligible.
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
Knowledge, Skills, And General Abilities
- REQUIRED to be ASHA Certified or a clinical fellowship year candidate for certification by American Speech-Language and Hearing Association. Must have licensure by Maryland State Board of Examiners in Speech-Language Pathology.
- Comprehensive knowledge of speech/ language development and impairments, augmentative and alternative communication, oral motor function/dysfunction, and treatment and diagnostic techniques which meet professional standards of practice.
- Comprehensive knowledge of disabling childhood conditions such as autism, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, hearing impairment, traumatic injuries and learning disabilities and their impact on communication and feeding skills.
- Must be an effective verbal communicator with good interpersonal skills.
- Must have effective and accurate writing skills.
- General knowledge of: IEP System, types of adaptations and accommodations which can be used to meet student needs, MSB team process, behavior management, data collection, and visual impairment/blindness relative to communication development, assessment, and treatment, MSB policies and procedures.
- General knowledge of IDEA regulations and service implications.
- Basic knowledge to complete the daily requirements of the job.