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 requirements 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 and in 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, 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 to 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 in-service to colleagues.
• Must complete all Special Education paperwork including IEPs and Medicaid billing.

Evaluation:

Performance of this position will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the board policy on evaluation of Support Service Personnel