QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Certification to teach speech-impaired students.
2. Such additional qualifications as the superintendent or Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

REPORTS TO: Principal
Special Education Director

SUPERVISES: N/A

JOB GOALS: To help reduce or eliminate speech and hearing impediments that interfere with the individual student’s ability to derive full benefit from the district’s educational program.

RESPONSIBILITIES SPECIFIC TO TEACHING AREA:

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 speech and hearing handicapped children.
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 speech handicapped children 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 or language handicaps.
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. 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.
15. Keeps attendance reports and all other records pertinent to special education for state reports.
16. Takes the initiative in referring students to the School Based Admissions and Release Committee (SBARC) once therapy has been successfully completed.
17. Performs such other professional tasks (within reason) as may be assigned by the principal, Special Education Director, or the superintendent.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Salary and work year to be established by the superintendent and the Board.

EVALUATION: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board’s policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.