2 - Full Time Speech and Language Pathologist - Preschool/Elementary Franklin Early Childhood School - Melrose, Massachusetts
Salary : $62,847.97 - $118,336.00 Salary is in accordance with the Melrose Public Schools Unit A salary schedule.
Job Description Speech Pathologist Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) work with students exhibiting the full range of communication disorders, including those involving language, speech sound disorders, fluency, and voice/resonance. SLPs responsibilities include:
- Conducting assessments in collaboration with others that help to identify students with communication disorders as well as to inform instruction and intervention.
- Determining if the disorder has an impact on the education of students. Therefore, SLPs address personal, social/emotional, academic, and vocational needs that have an impact or attainment of educational goals.
- Providing assistance in addressing the linguistic and metalinguistic foundations of curriculum learning for students with disabilities, as well as, specific intervention regarding the acquisition of reading and written language skills.
- Providing intervention that is appropriate to the age and learning needs of each individual student and is selected through an evidence-based decision-making process.
- Providing a continuum of service delivery models in the least restrictive environment for students with disabilities. •
- Gathering and interpreting data with individual students, as well as overall program evaluation are essential responsibilities.
- Collaborating with other school professionals, families and outside agencies.
- Meeting federal and state mandates as well as local policies in performance of their duties. Activities may include Individualized Education Program (IEP) development, Medicaid activities, report writing, and treatment plan/therapy log development.
Job Categories: Special Education > Speech/Language Pathologist
