Speech Therapist - District Wide

Speech-Language Therapist

Public school Speech-Language Therapists are communication specialists who work with both the general education and special education population with language handicaps, articulation deficits, dysfluencies and voice disorders. Salary: $43,350.73 - $81,769.12 + Stipend (SY25/26) Lewiston Public Schools offers a robust employee benefits package for full-time employees, including: health insurance with up to 85% of the premium paid by the employer; dental, vision, life, short- and long-term disability insurance; flexible spending and dependent care accounts; Maine Public Employee, 403(b) and 457 retirement plans; 15 paid sick days per year; tuition reimbursement and more!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as a resource to school staff members in the development of a balanced program for oral communication and speech improvement.
• Assists and guides teachers in observing, describing, and referring suspected and identified speech and language impairments.
• Provides a thorough assessment and diagnosis of speech, voice, and language impairments.
• Provides screening to identify speech handicapped children at regular intervals and at specified levels.
• Assists in proper referrals of individuals to agencies and specialists in the community.
• Provides appropriate individualized programs of therapy to meet individual students' needs and correct existing speech or language handicaps.
• Collaborates with classroom teachers and other school staff members to implement therapy by suggestions for the student's daily activities.
• Provides information, support, and counseling to parents and families when appropriate.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Supervises students.

Qualification Requirements:

• Bachelors degree requirement, Masters preferred.
• Certification as Speech Therapist.
• 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.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to instructional program; ability to plan and implement lessons based on division and school objectives and the needs and abilities of students to 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.

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is will regularly sit, and occasionally walk and stand.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
• While performing the duties of this job the employee will continuously hear conversation in a quiet and/or noisy environment.

Work Environment:

• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.
• The employee is directly responsible for the safety, well-being and work output of students.