Speech Language Pathologist

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TITLE: Speech Language Pathologist

QUALIFICATIONS: Professional Educator License:
Endorsement as a Speech Language Pathologist. Meets the highly qualified requirements as a Speech Language Pathologist

REPORT TO: Director of Special Education, Assistant Director and Coordinators

FUNCTION: Provides services to students meeting the criteria and identified as having special education eligibility so educational and functional progress can be enhanced.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Planning and Preparation The Speech Language Pathologist understands the philosophical, historical, and legal foundations of special education. The Speech Language Pathologist understands how students differ in their approaches to learning; creates communication opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners; understands planning and designs services based on knowledge of the discipline, student, community, and curriculum goals of all students ages three through twenty-one.

• Develops short and long-range plans consistent with curriculum/personal goals, learners’ diversity, and learning theory; developed through collaboration with administration and teachers.
• Demonstrates working knowledge of current legislation, regulations, policies and ethical issues related to the provision of educational services, including least restrictive environment, due process, assessment, discipline, transition, supplemental services and supports, specialized health care and assistive technology, to individuals with all types of disabilities across the age range.
• Demonstrates specialized skill and knowledge in the area of Speech and Language; holding necessary licensures.
• Understands issues in definition and identification procedures for individuals with disabilities including those individuals from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds.
• Understands characteristics of individuals with disabilities across the age range, including levels of severity and multiple disabilities and their influence on development, behavior and learning; with knowledge about the impact of language disorders, processing deficits, intellectual cognitive abilities, behavioral/emotional/social disorders, and physical (including sensory) disabilities on learning and behavior.
• Demonstrates understanding of Common Core Standards and prepares effective instructional strategies and resources for teaching the scope and sequence in the academic, communication, social, and vocational curricular domains in the general curriculum.
• Understands effective instructional strategies for adapting or modifying general curriculum to meet the needs of individual students, and strategies to implement and prioritize longitudinal, outcome-based curriculum, including social, language, academic, vocational skills, and life skill domains (i.e. domestic, recreation/leisure, vocational, and community).
• Utilizes specialized materials, equipment, and assistive technology for individuals with disabilities and understands the use of adaptive equipment for students with disabilities to plan and prepare for the integration of assistive and instructional technology to meet a student’s individual needs.
• Prepares and utilizes assessment methodologies to adapt for individual students as appropriate, including physical adaptations to meet a student's individual needs; incorporating multiple sources of evidence and clear recommendations for improving services on an on-going basis.
• Maintains and inventories assessments, materials and assistive/adaptive technology.
• Plans and prepares for IEP and parent meetings.