SPEECH PATHOLOGIST - TYREE LEARNING CENTER
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SPEECH PATHOLOGIST - TYREE LEARNING CENTER

SCO Family of Services

Job Location : Sea Cliff,NY, USA

Posted on : 2024-11-13T08:39:51Z

Job Description :
Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for assessing new students entering the school program for potential cognitive, speech, and/or language deficits
  • Determine the extent of communication problems by having the student complete basic reading and vocalizing tasks or by giving standardized test
  • Responsible to evaluate the students' level of speech or language difficulty
  • Responsible for conducting evaluations and recommending speech and language services as determined by testing
  • Responsible for conducting informal assessments and classroom observations for those non-mandated students
  • Responsible for completing Annual Review Reports, Program plan reports, Evaluations, Assessments and Daily Progress Notes
  • Responsible for providing individual and small group therapy as recommended by the CSE per the students IEP
  • Responsible for providing in-service training to staff as needed
  • Responsible for attending Classroom Team Meetings
  • Responsible for attending CSE meetings on all mandated students
  • Responsible for disseminating pertinent curriculum materials to classroom
  • Responsible to identify and input the students' strengths and needs, develop Speech goals into Computerized Clear Track IEP system
  • Responsible to create Speech Language Goals and Implement students Individualized Education plan
Qualifications:
  • Master of Arts in Speech and Language Pathology
  • Certificate of Clinical Competence
  • New York State Certification
  • Acceptable background clearance check for State Central Registry
  • Compliance with health regulations for Physical/ Mantoux testing
Relationship:
  • Reports to Principal
  • Works cooperatively with CSE Coordinator
  • Be a Team Player
  • Have a strong sensitivity to cultural differences present among staff members and students within program
  • Possess a strong belief in people's ability to grow and change; forge a mutually respectful partnership with person's served and their families, if appropriate
  • Ability to set limits and maintain helping role of practitioner and to intervene appropriately
Speech Language Pathologists (sometimes called speech therapists) assess, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent communication and swallowing disorders in patients. Speech, language, and swallowing disorders result from a variety of causes, such as strokes, brain injury, hearing loss, developmental delay, a cleft palate, cerebral palsy, or emotional problems.When treating patients, speech-language pathologists typically do the following:
  • Teach patients how to make sounds and improve their voices
  • Teach alternative communication methods, such as sign language, to patients with little or no speech capability
  • Work with patients to improve their ability to read and write correctly
  • Work with patients to develop and strengthen the muscles used to swallow
  • Counsel patients and families on how to cope with communication disorders
In our school setting, speech pathologists:
  • Provide speech and language therapy
  • Conduct evaluations and screenings
  • Are members of the CSE
  • Provide consultation to teachers
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