2026-27 SY 8 Hour Per Day Speech Language Pathologist Assistant
About The Position
A Speech Language Pathologist Assistant provides individual and small group support and personal assistance to students with distinct and exceptional educational needs and challenges, often within English Language Development classes, small speech/language classes, or standard/special purpose educational programs. The primary purpose of this role is to screen and assess students' educational needs, provide instructional assistance in a classroom setting, and chart and record results. While clerical, word processing, or computer database updating duties may be assigned if time permits, they are not considered primary tasks. The position may involve full-time assignment to a student with a physical impairment, requiring assistance with school tasks such as attending class, taking notes, carrying books, adapting materials, personal cleanliness and hygiene, administering medication, setting up or operating specially adapted equipment, food preparation and feeding, and facilitating communication with teachers and classmates. The assistant may also tutor students individually or in small groups, administer and score standardized tests, and maintain student records in compliance with government regulations.
Requirements
- Knowledge of educational programs offered in all schools and of basic educational techniques, as required by the position
- Knowledge of the basic developmental stages of a child's learning process
- Ability to schedule the workload and meet the needs of the program
- Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions
- Ability to work with small groups and individual students in special programs
- Ability to prepare materials for lesson plans
- Ability to interact positively with children and adults, and observe individual student abilities
- Ability to work with a minimum of supervision
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with teachers, students, administrators, parents and co-workers
- Ability to learn safe lifting and proper physical positioning techniques to place students in student desks or in passenger vehicles, as required by the position
- Ability to operate standard office and audio-visual equipment safely and proficiently, as required by the position
- Bachelor’s degree
- Possess a valid Oregon SLPA certification
- Ability to implement culturally proficient skills and strategies
- Successfully pass Oregon Department of Education fingerprinting and criminal background checks
Nice To Haves
- Bilingual
- Experience working with bilingual students and families
Responsibilities
- Screen and assess the educational needs of students
- Provide instructional assistance to students in a classroom
- Chart and record results
- Assist with school tasks for students with physical impairments, including attending class, taking notes, carrying books, adapting written school materials, personal cleanliness and hygiene, administering medication, setting up or operating specially adapted equipment, food preparation and feeding the student, and assisting the student to communicate with teachers, classmates, and others
- Tutor students, individually or in small groups, providing instructional assistance in a variety of subjects or courses
- Administer and score standardized tests
- Maintain student records in conformance with government regulations
- Determine students' educational needs by assisting a teacher with administering and scoring test results
- Maintain and update student daily progress records
- Keep records on test scores, grades, attendance and other related data in compliance with government funding and program requirements
- Assist in developing lesson plans for students
- Prepare instructional materials
- Read and paraphrase tests
- Provide assistance in problem solving skills
- Provide assistance in language, visual, gross and fine motor, and sensory skills, using a variety of developmental learning materials
- Develop students' reading, math, spelling, handwriting, art and music skills
- Perform math and reading timings, chart results in student folders, and update computer database and other required record keeping
- Observe and participate in recording student progress and correcting papers
- Confer and consult regularly with teachers about problems encountered with students
- Share behavioral and academic observations of individual students with the instructor
- Translate materials
- Communicate with families in their native language
- Assist licensed speech-language pathologists in meeting student IEP goals
- Perform clerical and word processing or computer data base updating duties as time permits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
