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speech-language pathologist
Title posted on ApplyToEducation - SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST - TEMPORARY OPPORTUNITY
Posted on November 15, 2024 by Employer details Durham District School Board
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Position: Speech and Language Pathologist (Temporary Opportunity) <p>Reports to: Senior Manager and Clinical Lead - Speech, Language and Hearing Services <p> Job Purpose <p>Uses specialized knowledge and skills to systematically identify barriers for students who have communication and language learning needs. Works in classrooms collaborating with educators, providing intervention coaching, and works as part of a multidisciplinary team assessing, consulting, and programming for a broad range of students with communication delays and disorders, including complex needs students. SLPs design and deliver workshops for parents and education staff, participate in meetings, and provide student specific programming for the home and classroom.<p>Accountabilities <p>ASSESS STUDENTS AND INTERPRET RESULTS : Independently determine individualized assessment, assess students and interpret results for students who are non-verbal, minimally verbal or who have speech, oral language, communication and self-regulation difficulties and disorders, using communication disorder specific tools within a pedagogical framework, determining assessment measures based on various factors, analyzing the assessment results, and interpreting outcomes to parents, educational staff, and outside agencies. Collaborate in a multi-disciplinary assessment approach with educators, members of the special education team and outside agencies. <p>PLAN, ORGANIZE AND IMPLEMENT INTERVENTIONS : Plan, organize and implement interventions to support all aspects of verbal and non-verbal communication in accordance with CASLPO standards, including modeling and coaching in-class interventions to build educator capacity for growing student skills, delivering interventions to whole class, small groups and individual students, providing follow-up with respect to coaching strategies, evaluating student success and determining next steps, modeling, implementing, and extending the specialized communication strategies which have been recommended by outside agencies, engaging parents and guardians to implement identified communication goals, in the home or community, managing, organizing, and adjusting daily and weekly schedules, and collecting feedback to inform and evaluate effectiveness of interventions and make revisions as required. <p>DOCUMENT AND COLLECT DATA: Complete accurate clinical records according to professional college standards by completing detailed contact notes within a contemporary time frame using an electronic record collection system, developing formal assessment reports, progress reports, consultation notes, writing and sharing recommendations for an action plan which aligns with curriculum expectations, annually submitting a required compliance report to CASLPO to maintain registration status, and completing a daily speech and language specific statistics form to track student and system involvement of SLPs. <p>INSTRUCT AND GUIDE : Instruct and guide educational partners on behalf of students by developing, delivering and organizing workshops in all areas of communication to educators, administrators, early childhood educators, educational assistants, parents, caregivers and peers, colleagues within and outside of the DDSB, Community partners, creating and using online applications to share information with school staff, board staff and families, modeling and coaching educators and parents/guardians, collecting feedback to inform and evaluate effectiveness of workshops and online applications and making revisions as required, proposing and informing the development of special education classes to support system needs at the Family of Schools level. <p>ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE: Acquire knowledge to keep current with evidence-based practice within an educational setting and a constantly changing student population by attending and participating in Ministry of Education curriculum input and information sharing me- LocationWhitby, ON
- Workplace information On site
- SalaryNot available
- Terms of employment Permanent employment
- Starts as soon as possible
- vacancies 1 vacancy
- Source ApplyToEducation #2803641
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