Academic Language Therapist

Academic Language Therapist

The Dunham School | Baton Rouge, Louisiana

The Dunham School is seeking a compassionate, highly skilled Academic Language Therapist to join the McKay Academic Center. This educator will provide individualized multisensory structured literacy intervention for students with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences.

The Academic Language Therapist will use a systematic, explicit, and diagnostic-prescriptive approach to strengthen students' phonological awareness, decoding, encoding, spelling, reading fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, and written expression. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with students, families, teachers, administrators, and outside professionals to help students develop the skills, confidence, and self-advocacy needed for academic success.

Qualifications

Candidates should have:

• A bachelor's degree in education, special education, reading, speech-language pathology, psychology, or a related field; a master's degree is preferred.
• Training and certification in an evidence-based multisensory structured language approach, such as Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, Take Flight, Barton, or a comparable program.
• Experience supporting students with dyslexia and/or language-based learning differences.
• Strong knowledge of structured literacy and the ability to use assessment data to plan, monitor, and adjust intervention.
• Excellent communication, organization, collaboration, and relationship-building skills.
• A commitment to the mission and Christian values of The Dunham School.
• CALT, CALP, or comparable advanced certification is preferred.

The Dunham School offers a collaborative professional environment, a student-centered culture, and the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in learners' lives. Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, rsum, and references to the Director of the McKay Academic Center, Ashley McIlwain.