Duties
Position Type:
Related Services/Speech Therapist
- Date Posted:
11/1/2024
- Location:
District Wide
- Date Available:
08/06/2025
- Closing Date:
04/30/2025
NOTE: This posting has been opened for application intake for anyone interested in a position with School District U-46 for the 2025/2026 school year. We anticipate the review of applications to begin sometime near the end of January. If you are interested in a role for the current 2024/2025 school year, we encourage you to check out our open vacancies.
| Position / Title: Speech and Language Pathologist |
| Bargaining Unit: ETA |
Department/Location: Special Education |
| Work Days: 184 |
Reports To: Assistant Director of Special Education |
| JD Revision Date: 06-14-2023 |
Supervises: N/A |
Function / Position Summary
To work with parents, students, and staff in order to prevent, identify, evaluate and remediate a wide range of oral communication problems, including articulation, voice, fluency and language disorders.
Job Duties / Responsibilities
- Prevention can include consultation, in service training, and speaking with parents and parent groups.
- Identification can include pre-referral (student support teams), screenings, and referrals for the evaluation process.
- Assessment may include data collection through standardized or non-standardized measures, interpretation, report writing, sharing results with parents and staff, determining eligibility for services, and developing IEP’s.
- Intervention can include caseload management (scheduling), direct remediation within the educational setting, pull out services, consulting on academic and social issues, developing ongoing goals, documenting progress, collaborating with classroom teachers, and holding annual review meetings.
- Completing caseload records for special education funding.
- Maintaining student IEP's and evaluations on web-based computer program.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting.
Education
- Illinois Certificate with Speech and Language Pathology endorsement (Type 73 or Type 10 or Type 03/09).
- Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Speech Language Pathologist License.
- Master’s degree or higher in Speech Language Pathology.
Environmental Conditions
- Must work in noisy and crowded environments.
- Indoors or outdoors in a busy school environment.
- Frequently work at a fast pace with unscheduled interruptions.
- May be required to leave main work site to attend meetings.
- Public contact requiring appropriate business-like apparell
Physical Demands
- Requires prolonged sitting or standing.
- Occasionally requires physical exertion to manually move, lift carry, pull, or push heavy objects or materials.
- Occasional stooping, bending, and reaching.
Terms of Employment
- Nine-month position (184 work days)