Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP) with Sign On Bonus!

SPEECH/LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST
Teacher Salary schedule + Stipend (if eligible)

Primary Function:
Under the general direction of the Principal and/or Director of Special Education, the Speech & Language Pathologist identifies, assesses, and provides therapy to students with speech and language delay disorders.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:
• Screens, identifies, assesses, and develops recommendations for students with language, speech and hearing deficits
• Collaborates and participates in Individualized Education Plan (IEP) meetings, student study team meetings and conferences as appropriate
• Notifies teachers and administrators of identified language, speech, and hearing students, and develops an efficient schedule for working with such students
• Implements and monitors Individualized Education Plans (IEP)
• Consults and collaborates with community agencies and services as general resources
• Researches new information regarding intervention/treatment techniques, methods, assessment materials, available resources and regularly communicates to staff and parents via consultation, collaboration, and inservices and/or workshops
• Cooperates with other staff in assessing and helping students solve health, attitude, and learning problems
• Monitors speech/language instructional assistants and maintains speech aide programs for children identified as communicatively handicapped
• Provides individual and group stimulation of speech and language abilities, utilizing behavior modification, oral facilitation, phonemic vocalization, vocabulary development, and expressive language, social skills, semantics and pragmatics
• Performs a variety of non-instructional duties, therapy, and instructional development activities, student supervision, and advisory and/or consultative functions
• Provides appropriate and effective language and speech therapy experiences for students from a wide range of socio-economic and cultural backgrounds and with varying mental, social, and emotional abilities

QUALIFICATIONS GUIDE
• Eligibility for a valid California Clinical or Rehabilitative Services Credential
OR
1. Masters Degree in communicative disorders, and
2. valid license issued by the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board, and
3. passage of the California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST), and
AND
• Must demonstrate knowledge with programs designed to improve communication function
• Must possess knowledge of modern principles, trends and practices of language disorders

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS :
• Visual ability to read handwritten or typed documents, and the display screen of various office equipment and machines
• Able to conduct verbal conversation
• Able to hear normal range verbal conversation (approximately 60 decibels)
• Able to sit, stand, stoop, kneel, bend and walk
• Able to sit for sustained periods of time
• Able to climb slopes, stairs, steps, ramps and ladders
• Able to lift up to 25 pounds
• Able to carry up to 25 pounds
• Able to exhibit full range of motion for:
• shoulder external rotation and internal rotation
• shoulder abduction and adduction
• elbow flexion and extension
• shoulder extension and flexion
• back lateral flexion
• hip flexion and extension
• knee flexion
• Able to operate office machines and equipment in a safe and effective manner
• Able to demonstrate manual dexterity necessary to operate calculator, typewriter, and/or computer keyboard at the required speed and accuracy

While the ideal candidate will possess all these abilities, duties assigned can be modified to accommodate some physical restrictions.

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