Job Description
Position Type:
Special Education/Speech and Language Pathologist
Date Posted: 6/7/2024
Location: Highland Park, IL
Date Available: 2024-2025 School Year
Closing Date: Until Filled
Title or Position: Speech/Language Pathologist
Job Responsibilities: The Speech-Language Pathologist supports the TrueNorth mission and is committed to the possibilities in every learner, every day. The Speech-Language Pathologist strives to achieve the TrueNorth vision to be a national leader and highly valued partner with a courageous commitment to inclusive communities that equally value all people and inspire them to be active participants in our world.
The speech language pathologist serves communication needs of learners with complex needs and autism through assessment and intervention. Speech language pathologists provide service to students, classroom teams, families, and other professionals to promote the development of effective instruction to develop and facilitate student communication.
Core Competencies: - Proficient Communication skills
- Effective Collaborative Problem-solving ability
- Engages in Continuous Professional Improvement
- Possesses Job Specific Skills required to meet essential job function
Essential Job Functions: - Consult and collaborate with parents, educators and other professionals to design and implement instructional interventions to address students' communication needs.
- Participate in the assessment of communication skills, administering and interpreting evaluation results as appropriate.
- Relate assessment information to interventions and strategies on an ongoing basis.
- Relate assessment information to other assessment data in order to develop a transdisciplinary approach.
- Provide direct service to students to develop communication skills necessary for social and educational progress.
- Participate in continuing professional development to improve and enhance knowledge and skills.
- Be knowledgeable about and follow legal requirements and ethical codes of the profession of speech/language pathology.
- Utilize state-of-the-art augmentative and alternative communication technology for students with severe disabilities and autism.
- Assist students in developing speech and communication pragmatics in social situations.
- Utilize technology to assist students in developing communication skills (alternative as well as common usage).
- Assist teachers in integrating communication technology into curricula.
- Collaborate with colleagues and parents in order to share information and expertise to plan and implement effective student programs.
- Travel from classroom-to-classroom within the Cooperative.
Requirements: - Professional Educator License endorsed for Speech/Language Pathology
- Experience with learners with complex needs including students with autism.
- Knowledgeable about alternative and augmentative communication.
Reports to: Director of Instruction
Learning Coordinator
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