What are the responsibilities and job description for the School Audiologist position at McDowell County Schools?
Length of Position: Permanent Part-time
Type of Benefits: None
Months per year: 10
Number of hours per week: 15
Number of days per week: 2
State Salary Schedule: Yes
General Job Description: An educational audiologist is responsible for diagnosing, treating, and habituating children with a hearing loss. An audiologist also educates teachers, parents, and children on management of hearing loss. Finally, an audiologist monitors the educational progress of students to insure the delivery of a free, appropriate, education.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 1. Conduct audiologic assessment, inclusive of pure tone and speech audiometry, behavioral audiometry, acoustic immittance tests, evaluating tolerance and comfortable listening levels, binaural and monaural evaluations, dichotic listening tests, and other psychoacoustic measures.
2. Design appropriate, educationally relevant treatment plans and determine appropriate treatment schedules as a member of multidisciplinary team on request. Assist in the development of individual education plans for students recommended for audiological services. Services include training necessary for hearing impaired students to achieve maximum use of their residual hearing, continuing responsibility for monitoring hearing aids, monitoring classroom acoustics, and amplification equipment.
3. Provide services to students, such as: aid selection fitting, and orientation to use, use of group amplification equipment, hearing conservation, auditory language skill development. 4. Conduct audiological screenings, and or evaluations when students are referred according to the district procedures, and consistent with Educational Standards for North Carolina Schools.
5. Maintain eligibility, placement, and treatment records, and provide documentation in a professional, efficient, accountable manner.
6. Attend staffing and other school meetings when appropriate.
7. Communicate results of evaluation and therapy services to educational staff, parents, and students, and when appropriate, with other professionals and agencies concerned with the students.
8. Provide consultations regarding student needs, professional needs, and system needs in order for the system to achieve its goals.
9. Re-define goals periodically and modify program service.
10. Make recommendations on inventory of evaluation/therapy equipment.
11. Provide basic equipment calibration services and design of routing maintenance/calibration schedule.
12. Provide inservice/orientation training on request.
Additional Duties and Responsibilities: Other tasks as may be deemed appropriate and necessary by the immediate supervisor, the principal and/or the Superintendent.
Requirements:One of the following:
Completion of an approved program in audiology at the master's level or above;
An audiology Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-A) from ASHA; or
A license from the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists;and
passage of the NTE/Praxis in Audiology
