Job Title: Speech Language Assistant Wage/Hour Status: Exempt-Professional
Reports to: Special Education Director Pay Grade: Teacher Salary Schedule
Campus Principal
Dept./School: Special Education Department Initiated Date: January 30, 2006
Funding Source: 192 Special Education/Local Revised Date: January 24, 2021
District Primary Purpose: To assist and promote La Joya ISD in implementing a rigorous curriculum/instructional program that supports student success and achievement.
Department Primary Purpose: To perform tasks prescribed, directed and supervised by Certified Speech Language Pathologists.
Qualifications:
Education/Certification: Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Disorders
Valid Texas License as Speech Pathologist Assistant
Experience/Knowledge: Knowledge of physical, mental, and emotional child development, specific communications disorders, remediation techniques; related medical conditions
Major Responsibilities and Duties:
- Assist with informal documentation as directed by the Speech Language-Pathologist.
- Follow documented treatment plans or protocols developed by the supervising Speech Language
Pathologist.
- Provide speech therapy services as prescribed by the student’s IEP.
- Document patient/client performance (e.g., tallying data for the speech-language pathologist to
use; preparing charts, records, and graphs) and report this information to the supervising speech
language pathologist.
- Assist with clerical duties such as preparing materials and scheduling activities as directed by the speech-language pathologist.
- Perform checks and maintenance of equipment.
- Assist with departmental operations (scheduling, record keeping, safety/maintenance of supplies and
Equipment).
- Exhibit compliance with regulations, reimbursement requirements, and speech-language pathology
assistants’ job responsibilities.
- Maintain confidentiality of all student information and all aspects of the special education department.
- Perform other duties pertaining to special education as assigned by the Director.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Mental Demands:
Ability to communicate verbally and in writing; ability to instruct; maintain emotional control under stress.
Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:
Regular in-district travel; moderate lifting and carrying.
POSITION WORKING DAYS: 187 Days
All applications must be submitted on line for professional and clerical positions to the La Joya I.S.D. Office of Human Resources Department. (www.lajoyaisd.com)
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