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Essential Functions:

1. Follows the Ohio Licensure Code of Professional Conduct.
2. Identification of children with speech and language
3. Diagnosis and appraisal of specific speech and/or language impairments.
4. Referral for medical or other professional attention necessary for rehabilitating speech or language impairments.
5. Is aware of, maintains, anticipates, and complies with Individual Education Plans (IEP) timelines.
6. Provide speech and language services for the habilitation or prevention of communicative impairments.
7. Provide counseling and guidance to parents, children, and teachers regarding speech and language impairments.
8. Assisting in local procedures development related to speech and language impairments.
9. Serves as a consultant to classroom teachers.
10. Providing professional development for school staff related to speech and language impairments.
11. Keeping thorough ongoing records for the individual student receiving therapy or other school-provided speech services.
12. Maintains a list of referred, screened, and eligible students and a directory of outside agencies, consultants, specialists, and related services.
13. Compiles case history data on those cases where additional family history, health history, early developmental history, and environmental history are deemed appropriate.
14. Assumes primary responsibility for requisitioning and maintaining needed equipment and supplies.
15. Maintain records as required by Board policy.
16. Serves as a resource to school staff members in developing balanced oral communication and speech practices.
17. Provides a therapeutic program to meet the individual needs of speech, language, and hearing-impaired students.
18. Assists and guides teachers in observing, describing, and referring to suspected and identified speech, language, and hearing impairments.
19. Provides a thorough assessment and diagnosis of speech, voice, hearing, fluency, and language impairments. 
20. Provides screening to identify speech-impaired children at regular intervals and specified levels.
21. Assists in referrals to appropriate resources.
22. Schedule assigned students as appropriate to ensure service minutes are attained.
23. Provides information, support, and counseling to parents and families when appropriate. 
24. Collaborates with classroom teachers and other school staff members to implement therapy by suggestions for the student's daily activities. 
25. Demonstrates the ability to organize tasks to completion.
26. Identifies, analyzes, and solves problems. 
27. Seeks to improve personal and organizational performance by measuring and monitoring outcomes. 

28. Is open to change and willing to be involved in the change process.

     

Salary:  Per salary schedule as adopted by the Galion City Schools Board of Education

Please complete and submit a letter of interest, certified application (found on our website, www.galionschools.org{rel="nofollow"}), resume and references to:

human.resources@galionschools.org