Speech Therapist

Speech and Language Pathologist

To work with parents, students, and staff in order to prevent, identify, evaluate and remediate a wide range of oral communication problems, including articulation, voice, fluency and language disorders.

Job duties and responsibilities include:

• Consultation, in service training, and speaking with parents and parent groups
• Pre-referral (student support teams), screenings, and referrals for the evaluation process
• Data collection through standardized or non-standardized measures, interpretation, report writing, sharing results with parents and staff, determining eligibility for services, and developing IEP's
• Caseload management (scheduling), direct remediation within the educational setting, pull out services, consulting on academic and social issues, developing ongoing goals, documenting progress, collaborating with classroom teachers, and holding annual review meetings
• Completing caseload records for special education funding
• Maintaining student IEP's and evaluations on web-based computer program
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting

Education: Illinois Certificate with Speech and Language Pathology endorsement (Type 73 or Type 10 or Type 03/09). Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Speech Language Pathologist License. Master's degree or higher in Speech Language Pathology.

Environmental conditions: Must work in noisy and crowded environments. Indoors or outdoors in a busy school environment. Frequently work at a fast pace with unscheduled interruptions. May be required to leave main work site to attend meetings. Public contact requiring appropriate business-like apparel.

Physical demands: Requires prolonged sitting or standing. Occasionally requires physical exertion to manually move, lift carry, pull, or push heavy objects or materials. Occasional stooping, bending, and reaching.

Terms of employment: Nine-month position (184 work days). The starting salary for this position is $60,689.