About the role
Speech Language Pathologists facilitate online therapy for students with speech and language needs. This position includes assessing and treating students with speech, language, voice, and fluency disorders. Requires research related to alternative communication systems and teaches their use. This is an opportunity to positively impact children's lives while working from home in a collaborative environment. This position requires a professional who will embrace our values of care, collaboration, courage, impact, and trust.
What you'll do
- Provide high-quality online speech-language services to students according to the student's IEPs.
- Develop, monitor, and report on goals; determine needs, and design interventions utilizing research-based best practices.
- Provide clear documentation in designated platforms that support the progress and growth of students toward their documented goals.
- Participate in IEP meetings and other meetings as needed.
- Oversee and ensure timely scheduling and rescheduling for assigned students through the use of the auto-scheduling system, and manually if necessary.
- Monitor student attendance for services, completing timely documentation as required by schools.
- Primary contact for all communication directly with school personnel, students, and families regarding services to students on caseload.
Qualifications
- Education and Experience:
- Masters degree in Speech-Language Pathology or Communication Disorders
- Active state licensure where residing and where performing teletherapy services as required
- ASHA Certification of Clinical Competence (CCC)
- State and Federal requirements for working in a school setting (FBI and/or state background checks as required by HelloHero and school(s), Dept of Education Certification - if required by the state)
- School-based Teletherapy experience - preferred
- Two years of experience working in a school setting - preferred
- Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Excellent Technology & Computer proficiency, including the ability to learn new digital platforms.
- Reliable Wi-Fi/Internet access.
- Distraction-free work environment.
- Knowledge and experience with Special Education Services and support to include writing PLOPs, IEP Goals, and determination of appropriate services and accommodations as part of the IEP team.
- Knowledge & experience in administering evaluations prefer experience in virtual administration.
- Excellent written and oral communication including the ability to independently draft professional documentation as part of the evaluation and IEP process.
- Flexibility and adaptability in day-to-day operations.
- Working Conditions / Physical Requirements:
- Manual dexterity to operate a telephone and enter data into a computer.
- Facility to sit at a desk, conference table, or in meetings of various configurations for extended periods of time with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Facility to see and read, with or without visual aids, laws and codes, rules, policies, and other printed matter, and computer screens and printouts with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Facility to hear and understand speech at normal room levels and to hear and understand speech on the telephone with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Facility to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal conversations, in training sessions, and in other meetings with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Mental Demands: Ability to foster collaborative relationships, work well under pressure, organize and synthesize new information, and prioritize tasks.
Compensation
Starting pay is determined based on experience, qualifications and the state in which service is received. This position pays between $45 - $55 an hour.
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