| Description |
- Job Title: Speech/Language Pathologist
FLSA Status: Exempt
- General Description:
Provides diagnostic and therapeutic services to students with speech and language disorders in a public school setting, and provides related educational services to school-age students. The pathologist manages student behavior, assesses and evaluates student progress, and provides a variety of student monitoring and assessment activities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Develops learning goals and objectives and guides the instructional process toward the achievement of these goals.
- Schedule and group students according to the nature and severity of their communication disorders.
- Implement screening and/or referral procedures to identify students needing a speech-language evaluation.
- Completes diagnostic batteries to determine articulation, voice, fluency, language, and pragmatic disorders.
- Prepares reports with testing results, makes recommendations for remediation, and develops therapy plans appropriate to individual needs.
- Use materials compatible with student’s age and interests.
- Assesses the accomplishments of the student and provides progress reports.
- Counsels colleagues, students, and/or parents on a regular basis concerning student needs and progress.
- Communicates with district staff, school staff, students, and parents.
- Utilizes equipment and materials appropriate to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and reporting.
- Performs related duties as required or assigned.
- Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Good organizational, human relations and communication skills.
- Good knowledge of speech and language diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
- Good knowledge of policies and procedures of the assigned school, including rules of student conduct and classroom procedures.
- Ability to prepare and report speech and language diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
- Ability to use technology in therapeutic procedures.
- Ability to instruct students with speech and language disorders.
- Ability to function as a member of a school faculty while providing specialized therapeutic services to identified students.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, parents, teachers, school and District staff.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Education, Training, and Experience Requirement:
- Master’s degree in Speech and Language Pathology; or any equivalent combination of education and experience that would provide the above noted knowledge, skill, and ability.
- Eligible for collegiate professional or postgraduate professional license with a speech pathologist endorsement.
- Physical Attributes/Demands:
Work is performed in an office, classroom environment, meeting room, or other school locations. This position requires standing/sitting for extended periods of time while instructing and/or performing other tasks. The position also requires occasional walking, bending, and lifting/carrying work-related items weighing less than 25 pounds, such as diagnostic and instructional materials and equipment, books, and papers.
Evaluation:
Performance on this job will be evaluated in accordance with the school board policy and administrative regulations on evaluation of instructional personnel.
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