A Speech Language Pathologist diagnoses and treats speech, language, and swallowing disorders in patients with a variety of conditions. Helps patients improve their ability to make sounds or use language, or develop non-spoken means of communication. May specialize in working with patients of a certain age group, or treat speech problems resulting from a condition such as a stroke or cleft palate. Works in schools, hospitals and other healthcare facilities and works closely with physicians, psychologists, social workers, and other therapists.
The speech language pathologist will provide targeted intervention activities to achieve the integrated outcomes on the child's IFSP. The process of outcome achievement is shared between or among those involved with the eligible child, including the family, interventionists, community caregivers, and others. The speech language pathologist provides intervention services to a child, or caregiver, or both for the purpose of enhancing the family's capacity to meet the child's developmental needs, enhancing the child's development, and supporting the child's participation within the daily activities and interactions of the child and family's home and community routines. An emphasis is placed on the need for practice of skills and problem solving in the daily routine, incorporating family members and other primary caregivers as active participants. The therapy activities should include but not limited to the following: Assisting with and adapting activities, equipment, and learning environments that promote the child's acquisition of skills in a variety of developmental areas, including communication; Adapting functional and meaningful activities typically occurring in the child's routine, creating opportunities for the practice of new skills, and collaborative problem solving with others to enhance development and future independence; Providing specific developmental, disability, and intervention training based on the discipline's unique expertise to caregivers and other team members for the purpose of enhancing the child's development; Integrating intervention strategies across developmental domains; Direct therapeutic developmental activities with the child designed to enhance the child's development in one or more developmental domains; Providing families or caregivers with information, skills, and support related to enhancing the development of the child; Providing family training and education to assist the family in understanding the special needs of the child; Providing families or caregivers with information, skills, and support to enable and empower the family. Assessment planning activities; Individual Family Service Plan meeting with intervention team and family to design appropriate outcomes and objectives, identify intensity, frequency, duration and location of services and to plan for transition; Bi Annual Review of Individual Family Service Plan with intervention team and family to review continued appropriateness of IFSP and amend if needed; and Problem solving intervention strategies, including AT strategies, among the team members, including the family Documents Copy of WV Speech license
Job Types:
Full-time, Part-time Pay:
$50.00 - $60.00 per hour
Benefits:
401(k) Dental insurance Flexible schedule Flexible spending account Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Vision insurance
