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Job Description

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assess students' instructional, linguistic and acoustic needs in the classrooom environment to optimize access to instruction.
• Maintain contact with school district representatives and parents.
• Provide and coordinate unique specialized instruction through daily lessons reflective of the student's IEP.
• Use auditory training techniques to help students improve listening skills and speech communication.
• Consult with classroom teachers, speech teachers, and parents to coordinate programs and services.
• Coordinate supplementary materials, educational aids and hearing support devices to facilitate maximum participation in all classroom activities.
• Provide instruction in the development and maintenance of skills as indicated in the IEP; academic skills, daily living skills, communication skills, social/emotional skills and abilities.
• Collaborate with Individual Education Plan (IEP) team in developing student IEPs.
• Attend IEP meetings and required staff meetings.
• Conduct and interpret functional hearing assessments and complete written reports.
• Compile and analyze data on student progress and use response to intervention to adjust interventions or strategies as indicated.
• Use technology to communicate and to enhance student learning.
• Provide inservice training to staff and parents regarding characteristics and implications of hearing loss.
• Participate in parent conferences.
• Monitor students' audiological needs.
• Provide students with access to information on Deaf culture and current issues impacting the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community.
• Teach self-advocacy skills and encourage students to identify and communicate their needs in a school setting.

Job Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

• NYS Certification as Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
• Up-to-date knowledge of current research-based "best practices" in teaching students who are deaf or hard of hearing.
• Thorough understanding and application of technical and assistive devices available to support students.
• Proficient across all aspects of the communication continuum, oral/aural to ASL.

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