- An individual who is optimistic, who sees events positively and anticipates the best possible outcome.
- Able to encourage and sustain others’ efforts as they work toward goals.
- Provides a therapy program to meet individual, specific needs of speech and/or language impaired children.
- Assists and guides teachers in observing, describing, and referring suspected and identified speech and language impairments.
- Provides a thorough assessment and diagnosis of speech, voice, hearing fluency, and language impairments as requested by teachers, principals or parents/guardians.
- Reports evaluation results and recommendations to CSE/CPSE as requested.
- Provides screening to identify kindergarten children and new entrants with a suspected speech, language, or auditory discrimination disability.
- Assists in proper referrals of individuals to agencies and specialists in the community as appropriate.
- Collaborates with classroom teachers and other school staff members to integrate therapy goals into the student's daily activities.
- Provides information, support and counseling to parents/guardians and families when appropriate.
- Provides in-service education and serves as a consultant to teachers and school staff members on topics concerning speech and language and auditory discrimination.
- Keeps thorough, ongoing records for the individual students receiving therapy or other school-provided speech services.
- Maintains lists of referred, screened, and eligible students, as well as a directory of outside agencies, consultants, specialists, and related services.
- Assumes primary responsibility for requisitioning and maintaining needed equipment and supplies.
- Assists in preparation of the annual budget for speech therapy services.
- Compiles case history data on those students where additional information, family history, health, early development, and environment are needed.
- Consults regularly with teachers, principals/administrators, and parents as to an individual child's rogress.
- Makes surveys as necessary to establish the incidence of children with speech disabilities in the District.
- Works cooperatively with school personnel and outside service providers
- Carries out any other assigned duties and/or responsibilities which may be deemed appropriate by the Superintendent of Schools (or designee) and the Board of Education.
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