Primary Purpose:

Plan and provide speech-language pathology services to students with speech, voice, or language disorders. Assess students and provide therapeutic intervention to eliminate or reduce problems or impairments that interfere with their students’ ability to derive full benefit from the educational program.

 

 

Qualifications:

Education/Certification:

Master’ s degree in speech-language pathology from an accredited college or 

      university

Valid Texas license as a speech-language pathologist granted by the State

      Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

      (SBESLPA)

Bachelor’s degree with

Valid Texas Education Agency speech therapy certificate

Special Knowledge/Skills:

Ability to use the accepted tests and measurements to assess communication

      disorders and conditions

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

 

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 wheelchair or assist with positioning students with physical disabilities.

 

Wage/Hour Status:  Exempt

Pay Grade: 2 - Administrative Programs

Days: 187/192

Reports to:  Director of Special Services