Purpose of Your Position
Provide speech language therapy services to infants’ toddlers, preschool and school age children for a minimum of 50 weekly sessions and conduct speech language therapy assessments and evaluations.
Job Functions
- Understands ESCC Mission and Core Values and incorporates values into daily practice.
- Participate in meetings and consultations with education staff and the multidisciplinary team concerning the needs of each child as related to his/her mandated services and progress updates
- Work effectively with parents, teaching staff and other professionals directly involved in the care and treatment of the child to develop and monitor IEP services
- Use accurate assessment skills to perform functional evaluations with reports reflecting current knowledge and evidence based practices and communicate results effectively in both written and verbal formats
- Maintain accurate record keeping and IEP/IFSP goal tracking documentation as required by SED/EI and Coleman School policies for quality assurance and accountability purposes
- Design and monitor assistive technology, adaptive equipment and augmentative communication needs in collaboration with team and family members
- Implement and monitor feeding programs for children on assigned case load in accordance with Coleman policies and ASHA guidelines for school therapists
- Serves as clinical instructor and assists with coordination of affiliation programs as needed for speech therapy students
- Actively participate in the creation and implementation of an individual and School wide Professional Development Plan that inspires personal growth and informs clinical practices
- Perform other tasks to support the operations of the school as assigned by School Administration