Speech Language Pathologist, Grades K-5

IDEAL School of Manhattan•New York, NY

3h•$65,000 - $78,000•Onsite

About The Position

The IDEAL School of Manhattan is an inclusion school dedicated to creating a diverse community that affirms and accepts the full identities of all people, while inspiring academic excellence, creative leadership, and a desire to build a more just and equitable world. Position Description The IDEAL School is seeking a talented, enthusiastic, dedicated, and caring Speech Therapist to work with students, with a focus on Lower School students Grades K-5. Candidates must have a NY State license and a passion for and skill in working with children in a school-based role, with students with expressive, receptive, pragmatic and articulation delays and disorders, and be confident working with children with intellectual disabilities and global delays. At IDEAL, therapists are integral members of the faculty. Therapists at IDEAL provide individual and group services to students, collaborate with teachers to ensure goals and interventions are developed and carried over into the classroom and curriculum, and provide informal, ongoing assessments of students as needed. They also partner with administrators to work with CSE teams. The successful candidate will be committed to inclusive education.

Requirements

Master’s degree and NY State License
Certificate of Clinical Competence
Experience in a school setting

Responsibilities

Provide educationally and developmentally-based speech and language therapy to support individual student goals and environmental access
Develop clear and effective expressive, receptive, pragmatic, and/or articulation goals to target identified delayed or disordered communication skills
Provide individual and small group speech therapy for caseload of students with a variety of speech and language disorders
Provide timely and clear feedback to students based on targeted goals
Push-in to facilitate generalization of skills in academic settings
Support the use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems for individuals with significant expressive language disorders
Conduct screenings to identify students with suspected speech and language delays to be referred for further evaluation
Maintain accurate records and documentation regarding student sessions, goals and outcomes
Communicate with student families via email, conferences, and progress reports
Work collaboratively with faculty and therapy team to ensure support student development
IDEAL therapists participate as a part of the staff in responsibilities including chaperoning events, lunch duty, and advisory in Upper School; their participation in the community builds essential relationships
Other duties as assigned