Duties
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. To participate in the District's annual multidisciplinary screening of preschool children.
2. To serve as a resource and consultant to school personnel and parents regarding speech and
language development, implementation of therapy, and identification and referral of children
exhibiting a communication disorder.
3. To provide Response to Intervention (RtI) services to students who may benefit from
short-term intervention strategies.
4. To determine, through the referral process, those students requiring a screening, initial
evaluation, and/ or re- evaluation of their speech and language abilities.
5. To determine, through evaluation or re- evaluation, those students in need of direct or
consultative speech and/ or language services. To develop an annual Individualized
Education Plan (IEP) to meet the needs of children enrolled in therapy.
6. To assist in the determination of need for assistive technology and/ or augmentative
communication systems for students identified with severe- profound disorders.
7. To provide direct services with assistive technology and/ or augmentative communication
systems for students identified with severe- profound disorders.
8. To develop a schedule to meet the needs of our caseload and of our workload.
9. To provide direct and/ or consultative speech and/ or language services.
10. To document therapy through logs and reports of progress entered into the District's
computer tracking system.
11. To record and update Medicaid/ Fee for Service.
12. To participate in Early Intervention (EI) thru eighth grade team collaboration
regarding student performance, needs, and programming (i.e. attend team
meetings, prediagnostic meetings, multidisciplinary staffings, transitions meetings,
annual reviews).
13. To attend Pupil Service Team (PST) meetings at parochial schools as needed.
14. To screen, evaluate, create service plans, and implement plan when services are
indicated.
15. To make referrals to outside agencies as needed.
16. To participate in appropriate continuing education to maintain licensure and certification
requirements.
17. To provide liaison services between the school and community agencies.
18. To attend afternoon and evening conferences as scheduled by the District.
19. To perform such other tasks and assume other responsibilities, as negotiated between
the Administration and the South Berwyn Education Association.
Qualifications
Master's Degree in Speech-Language Pathology
License from the Illinois Dept. of Professional Regulations
Illinois State Board of Education Type 10 certificate, Type 73 certificate, or Type 03 and 09 certificate with endorsement
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence/ Speech- Language or intent to begin Clinical Fellowship year
Salary/Benefits
In accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement with the South Berwyn Education Association
Additional Notes
JOB GOAL: To diagnose and remediate articulation, language, voice, and fluency impairments, which negatively impacts students' classroom functioning and/ or overall communications skills.
REPORTS TO: Director of Special Student Services and Building Principal