Job Description

Primary Purpose:

To assist in providing speech services to students.

Qualifications: Education/Certification:

• Bachelors degree accredited college or university
• Valid Texas license as a Speech-Language Pathologist Assistant granted by the State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (SBESLPA)

Special Knowledge/Skills:

• Knowledge of evaluation habilitation and rehabilitation of speech-language disorders and conditions.
• Ability to instruct and manage student behavior.
• Excellent organizational communication and interpersonal skills

Experience:

• One year supervised clinical speech-language pathology experience

Major Responsibilities and Duties:

1. Plan and provide appropriate individual and group therapy to students consistent with speech and language goals contained in Individual Education Plans (IEP)
2. Collect data needed to determine progress.
3. May participate in the Admission Review and Dismissal (ARD) committee to assist in appropriate placement and goal setting for students with communication disorders or conditions according to district procedures.
4. Counsel and involve parents in the remedial process.
5. Collaborate with classroom teachers to plan and implement classroom activities to improve the communication skills of students.
6. Provide professional development in assigned schools to help school personnel identify and understand communication deficits in students.
7. Communicate effectively with colleagues students and parents regarding the accomplishment of therapy goals and needs of students.
8. Create an environment conducive to learning and appropriate for the maturity level and interests of students.
9. Establish control and administer discipline according to the Student Code of Conduct and student handbook.
10. Assist in the selection of equipment and instructional materials.
11. Comply with policies established by federal and state law State Board of Education rule and local board policy.
12. Comply with all district and local campus routines and regulations.
13. Participate in professional development activities to improve skills related to job assignment.
14. Maintain a positive and effective relationship with supervisors.
15. Effectively communicate with colleagues students and parents.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Working Conditions: Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:

• Maintain emotional control under stress.
• Regular districtwide travel to multiple work locations as assigned
• Moderate lifting and carrying.
• May be required to lift and transfer students to and from a wheelchair or assist with positioning students with physical disabilities.

Corsicana ISD (CISD) does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race color religion gender national origin age disability military status genetic information or on any other basis prohibited by law. Additionally the district does not discriminate against an employee or applicant who acts to oppose such discrimination or participates in the investigation of a complaint related to a discriminatory employment practice. Employment decisions will be made on the basis of each applicants job qualifications experience and abilities.

Employees with questions or concerns about discrimination based on sex including sexual harassment should contact the CISD Director of Human Resources the district Title IX coordinator. Employees with questions or concerns about discrimination on the basis of a disability should contact the CISD Transition Coordinator the district ADA/Section 504 coordinator. Questions or concerns relating to discrimination for any other reason should be directed to the Superintendent at the Lee Education Center 2200 W. 4th Ave Corsicana TX 75110 phone .

Required Experience:

Junior IC

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