IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR: Director of Special Education K-12
Qualifications: Master’s Degree in Speech Language Pathology and current license issued by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Some experience as a Speech Language Pathologist in a school system preferred, but not required. CFY Sponsorship available on site.
Physical/Emotional Requirements: The incumbent may be required to use the following skills and abilities during any part of the working day:
Speaking, hearing, visual, reading, writing, word processing, mobility, consistency of temperament, ability to work with a variety of problems at the same time, stamina for working long hours in a stress-producing environment.
Performance Responsibilities:
- Identify students with communication impairments.
- Collaborate with other educational staff to determine the impact of communication impairment on student progress.
- Develop and assist in the implementation of instructional and curricular modifications.
- Provide materials that promote communication development to other educators and families.
- Participate in student IEP development and implementation.
- Develop and maintain a caseload intervention schedule providing time for direct and indirect services, classroom collaboration and co-teaching, screenings and evaluations, and materials preparation and voice output device programming.
- Maintain student records and performance data.
- Supervise speech/language-trained para-educator and graduate students, as assigned.
- Mentor new speech/language pathologists.
- Participate as required on Building Student Improvement Teams, speech/language department committees and projects, special education committees, projects, or audits.
- Provide inservice to colleagues.
- Must complete all Special Education paperwork, including IEPs and Medicaid billing.
A Topeka Public Schools Certified Application is required and may be obtained online at www.topekapublicschools.net.
Terms of Employment/Duty Date: 2017-2018 School Year
Evaluation:
Performance of this position will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the board policy on evaluation of Support Service Personnel. |