Speech Pathologist - Current and Future Vacancies

NOLA Public Schools seeks a Speech Pathologist to reduce or eliminate speech and hearing impediments that interfere with a student’s ability to benefit from the district’s educational program. The Speech Pathologist will serve students in Orleans Parish non-public schools, providing therapeutic programs, assessments, and individualized education programs. They will also collaborate with teachers and families to support student language acquisition and development.

Requirements

• Serves as a resource to school staff members in the development of a balanced program for oral communication and speech improvement
• Provides a therapeutic program to meet individual needs of students with speech and hearing impairments
• Assists and guide teachers in observing, describing, and referring suspected and identified speech and language impairments
• Serves as a member of the multidisciplinary evaluation team and provides a comprehensive assessment and diagnosis
• Develops compliant speech evaluation reports
• Delivers speech and language services in accordance with all federal, state regulations and local policy
• Provides screening to identify children with speech impairments
• Assists in proper referrals of individuals to agencies and specialists in the community
• Develops individualized education programs for therapy
• Collaborates with classroom teachers and other school staff members to implement therapy and language activities
• Provides information, support, and counseling to agencies and families
• Keeps abreast of assistive technology strategies
• Produces in-service education and serve as a consultant to teachers and school staff members
• Keeps and timely submits compliant records of the assigned student caseload
• Completes all required reports both local and state

Benefits

• Appropriate Salary Schedule