Speech - language Pathologist - Special Services

Job Summary

Diagnosis and treatment of speech and language problems.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities:

• Diagnose and evaluate speech and language skills as related to education.
• Plan, direct, or conduct habilitative and rehabilitative treatment programs to restore students' communicative efficiency with communication problems of organic and non-organic etiology.
• Provide language development therapy to disabled students.
• Review the student's file to obtain background information before evaluation to determine appropriate tests to ensure adequate information is available.
• Administer, score, and interpret specialized speech/language tests.
• Develop and implement individualized plans for assigned students to meet individual needs, interests, and abilities.
• Evaluate and monitor individuals using audio-visual equipment, such as tape recorders, overhead projectors, film strips, and demonstrative materials.
• Review treatment plans and assess individual performance to modify, change, or write new programs.
• Maintain records as required by law, school board's policy, and administrative regulations.
• Attend meetings and conferences and participate in other activities to promote professional growth.
• Instruct individuals to monitor their speech and provide ways to practice new skills.
• Act as a consultant to classroom teachers to incorporate speech and language development activities into daily schedules.
• Instruct staff in using special equipment designed to serve students with disabilities.

Non-Essential Duties And Responsibilities:

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualification Requirements

Education & Experience:

• Master's degree from an accredited college or university with licensure.

Language Skills:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret standard scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from students, teachers, and regulatory agencies.
• Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of students, parents, and the general public.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. Ability to apply basic statistical concepts.

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret a wide variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Alabama Class A Certificate with endorsement in speech pathology.

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

Salary:

• Salary schedules are found on the main Decatur City Schools website, available here.
• Listed below are items that may be necessary to complete your employment process in order to compute your annual salary. It is your responsibility to provide us with this requested information in order to receive your accurate salary.
• We need verification of previous public school teaching experience. Use the following information when requesting verification of experience from your past employment at other boards of education:
• Within the state of Alabama, experience must be verified on Supplement EXP.
• Outside the state of Alabama, we must have a letter (on school district letterhead) or public school district form showing beginning and ending dates stating your years of service and position held while employed.
• Credit is awarded for public school experience only, private, parochial, or similar experience will not be accepted.
• Experience must be full time at least 50%-100% of the academic year.
• Administrative credit will be awarded only for experience in the same position, i.e., principal for principal position as stated in the salary schedule.
• Transfer Sick Leave: If you have sick leave from another state school system or from another state of Alabama agency, you must have a Sick Leave Transfer form sent from your previous employer to our Human Resources department.
• The Decatur City Board of Education awards a salary based on the highest degree earned, even if the degree is outside education. The degree must be verified on an official transcript & recognized by the Alabama State Department of Education.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee(s) within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of an employee(s) for this job.

The Decatur City School System does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, sex, religion, national origin, or age in its programs, activities, or employment and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The Title IX Coordinator for Decatur City Schools is responsible for handling inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies. The Title IX Coordinator can be reached by calling the Decatur City Board of Education at (256) 552-3000.