BERKLEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Position Description: Speech and Language Therapist
Position Goal: The Speech and Language Therapist is responsible for screening, assessing, diagnosing, and treating disorders related to speech, language, communication, swallowing, and voice.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- Current Massachusetts DESE license as a Speech and Language Therapist
- Understanding of the Individual Education Program (IEP) process
- Ability to work as part of an educational team
Reports to: School Principal and Administrator of Student Services
Responsibilities:
- Conduct screenings for preschool/kindergarten students and other students as needed.
- Complete standard assessments for children referred for a speech and language evaluation. The therapist will also complete three-year evaluations as required by a student's IEP.
- Complete formal written evaluations and share such results at a student's team meeting. If a student is found to have a speech and language disorder, the therapist shall recommend ways to best meet the student's needs, including setting goals.
- Work directly with students, individually or in groups, on students' individual speech and language goals and objectives.
- Maintain data on student progress and complete progress notes each quarter of the school year.
- Work with all team members, including classroom teachers and other therapists, and provide consultation services as required.
- Complete professional development activities to seek knowledge on current best practices.
- Maintain students' FM systems as needed.
Terms of Employment: Per teacher's contract
Evaluation: Per teacher bargaining agreement
Adopted: April 1992
Revised: Aug. 2010