Job title: Speech and Language Therapist
Company: AMA ESD
Job description: The Speech and Language Therapist serves as a member of the Multidisciplinary Team designed to assist in the evaluation of the education needs of students suspected of being speech &/or language impaired as well as providing necessary consultation and direct services.
Duties and Responsibilities: The Speech Therapist shall have duties and responsibilities which include, but are not limited to the following.
Physical Demands ? The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essentials functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the Speech Therapist must be able to do the following:
Lift up to 50 pounds. Qualifications:
Expected salary:
Location: Alpena, MI Apply Now
Company: AMA ESD
Job description: The Speech and Language Therapist serves as a member of the Multidisciplinary Team designed to assist in the evaluation of the education needs of students suspected of being speech &/or language impaired as well as providing necessary consultation and direct services.
Duties and Responsibilities: The Speech Therapist shall have duties and responsibilities which include, but are not limited to the following.
- Diagnosis of speech and language disorders in students 0-26 years of age.
- Planning and implementing appropriate therapy and intervention strategies.
- Providing consultation and professional inservice to teachers, parents and ancillary staff.
- Serving on preschool, autism, hearing impaired and other diagnostic teams.
- Serving on professional committees that involve the teacher of the speech and language impaired professional expertise.
- Completing state and federal IEP/IFSP team requirements.
- Serving as IEP team chairperson and coordinating student's speech therapy and special education programming.
- Serving as a liaison between the district, the state and national professional association (Michigan Speech and Hearing Association, American Speech and Hearing Association).
- Other duties assigned.
Physical Demands ? The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essentials functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the Speech Therapist must be able to do the following:
Lift up to 50 pounds. Qualifications:
- Must possess a Master's Degree in speech and language pathology.
- Must possess curent Certification of Clinical Competence in speech-language pathology (CCC-SLP) from ASHA.
- A minimum of 60 semester or equivalent hours of academic credit in normal aspects of human communication, development thereof, and clinical techniques for evaluation and management of speech and language disorders.
- A minimum of 300 clock hours of supervised practicum experience with person who present a variety of communication disorders to be acquired in conjunction with academic training, 150 hours of which shall be obtained at the graduate level.
- Must possess knowledge of various methods of data collection and subsequent analysis and interpretation of data to drive appropriate instructional and behavioral interventions.
- Must possess and maintain a valid Michigan Driver's License.
- Must have the ability to communicate effectively.
- Must have own transportation to and from assignments throughout the district.
- Must willing to travel.
- Ability to pass criminal history check.
Expected salary:
Location: Alpena, MI Apply Now