What are the responsibilities and job description for the Speech and Language Pathologist position at North Middlesex Regional School District?
Speech and Language Pathologist
JOB GOAL:
To help reduce or eliminate speech and language impediments that interferes with an individual student’s ability to derive full benefit from the district’s educational program.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
1.Serves as a resource to school staff members in the development of a balanced program for oral communication and speech improvement.
2.Provides a therapeutic program to meet individual needs of students requiring speech therapy.
3.Assists and guides teachers in observing, describing, and referring suspected and identified speech and language impairments.
4.Provides a thorough assessment and diagnosis of speech, voice, hearing, and language impairments.
5.Provides screening to identify students requiring speech therapy at regular intervals and at specified levels.
6.Assists in proper referrals of individuals to agencies and specialists in the community as appropriate.
7.Provides appropriate individualized programs of therapy to meet individual students’ needs and correct existing speech and language deficits.
8.Collaborates with classroom teachers and other school staff members to implement therapy by suggestions for the student’s daily activities.
9.Provides information, support, and counseling to parents and families when appropriate.
10.Provides in-service education and serves as a consultant to teachers and school staff members on topics concerning speech improvement.
11.Keeps thorough ongoing records for the individual student receiving therapy or other school-provided speech services.
12.Maintains lists of referred, screened, and eligible students, as well as a directory of outside agencies, consultants, specialists, and related services.
13.Compiles case history data on those cases where additional family history, health history, early developmental history, and environmental history are deemed appropriate.
14.Assumes primary responsibility for requisitioning and maintaining needed equipment and supplies.
