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Ottawa USD290 Speech Language Pathologist in Ottawa, Kansas
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USD 290
Job Description
Position Title:Speech Language Pathologist
Reports to:Assistant Director of Special Education
FLSA:Exempt
Modified Date:
Position Summary:
Under the direction of the Assistant Superintendent/Director of Special Education or designee, the Speech/Language Pathologist assists in developing speech and language skills to facilitate the personal, social, and intellectual development of students. In order to respond to the individual needs and abilities of students, the Speech/Language Pathologist must work closely with families, school staff, and administration of the school district.
Essential Functions:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Essential functions of the job may include but are not limited to the following:
Providing high quality direct speech-language therapy services to students according to the students IEPs/504 plans.
Conducting assessments, analyzing results, and writing reports to determine strengths and concerns in areas of speech, voice, fluency, pragmatics, language, and oral motor skills.
Developing treatment plans (IEPs/504 plans) that are strength-based as well as child and family centered for overall educational improvement.
Ensuring evaluations, treatment plans and service delivery are aligned with school, state, and federal guidelines.
Assisting and guiding teachers in observing, describing, and referring suspected and identified speech and language delays/disorders.
Consulting with teaching teams to develop and implement of curriculum modifications and appropriate classroom strategies such as visual supports, oral motor exercises, language strips, topics of conversation, and data collection.
Ensuring students skills are generalized across settings by collaborating with teaching teams and related service providers.
Completing treatment notes and progress reports in timely manner and according to school policy.
Managing a detailed log of service provided and services missed due to student or therapist absences.
Documenting all aspects of work with students in EasyIEP according to school and state guidelines.
Communicating and coordinating with Director of Student Support Services to ensure school mission, philosophy, and procedures are embraced.
Designing and conducting professional development series starting at staff orientation and ending at the end of the school year.
Designing and conducting trainings for parents and families.
Maintaining appropriate, confidential, records and provide timely reports.
Keeping abreast of best practices in speech and language therapy and language development.
Adhering to all district and cooperative health and safety polices including all precautions of Bloodborne Pathogens Exposure Control Plan.
Engaging parents and families in their student\'s learning and acting as an ambassador for the school in the community.
Contributing productively to the school as a whole.
Performs other duties as assigned or deemed necessary.
Certifications, Licenses, Education, and Experience:
Masters Degree in Speech-Language Pathology required.
Kansas License in Speech-Language Pathology or ability to obtain a Kansas License required.
Health and Inoculation Certificate on file in the Central Office.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to inter ret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Ability to read a variety of correspondence, technical manuals, newsletters, trade journals, etc. Requires the ability to prepare reports, forms, training materials, docum