Local Contract Audiologist with 22nd Century Healthcare Inc. for 36 weeks starting ASAP

Shift: 07:00AM - 04:00PM
Hours: 7.5 hours/day

Position goal:

• To work with ELL students (Spanish/English), parents and staff in order to prevent, identify, evaluate and remediate a wide range of oral communication problems, including articulation, voice, and fluency and language disorders.

Essential functions:

• Prevention can include consultation, in service training, and speaking with parents and parent groups.
  
• Identification can include pre-referral (student support teams), bilingual screenings, and referrals for the evaluation process.
  
• Assessment may include data collection in both Spanish and English through standardized or non-standardized measures, interpretation, report writing in English, bilingually sharing results with parents and staff, determining eligibility for services, and developing appropriate ELL speech and language IEP's.
  
• Intervention can include caseload management (scheduling), direct remediation within the educational setting, pull out services, consulting on academic and social issues, developing ongoing goals, documenting progress, collaborating with classroom teachers and other school personnel as well as holding annual review meetings, speech/language only report backs as well as report backs to service teams.
  
• Completing caseload records for special education funding.
  
• Managing/Maintaining student IEP's and evaluations on web-based computer program
  
• Assignment may include multiple sites and age/ability levels as well as district assessments and SLPP supervision.
  
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting using both English and Spanish.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor or administration.

Knowledge and Critical Skills:

• Near fluent to fluent verbal and written Spanish and English skills.
  
• Bicultural awareness of both Spanish speaking countries and mainstream English-speaking community.
  
• An understanding of the characteristics of second language acquisition, its impact on the native language and differentiating between speech and language difference vs. disorder
  
• An understanding of dual language assessment data collection model(s.)