Speech and Hearing Therapist
Allyon

Allyon, Inc. is an established IT and Healthcare Services firm and we love what we do! It makes our day when we are able to help talented individuals achieve their career goals while a the same time helping our clients build quality teams. If you are interested in joining the Allyon Team, please apply or submit your resume for review today!

Job Title: Speech and Hearing Therapist

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Serves as a resource to school staff members in the development of a balanced program for oral communication and speech improvement.
• Screens and identifies students with communication disorders. Provides a thorough assessment and diagnosis of speech, voice, hearing and language impairments.
• Consults with school principals to develop a schedule which is in compliance with the Defined Minimum Program and the student's IEP for regular instructional periods for students on caseload.
• Assists and counsels teachers in observing, describing and referring suspected and identified speech/language impairments.
• Assists in proper referrals of individuals to agencies and specialists in the community as appropriate.
• Plans and evaluates instruction to meet individual students' needs and to correct existing speech or language handicaps within assigned caseload.
• Communicates with classroom teachers, parents and other school staff members to implement continued instructional practices for the students' daily activities.
• Provides information, support and counseling to parents and families as appropriate.
• Develops IEPs for students on caseload.
• Complies with applicable state and federal laws in the implementation of procedural safeguards; complies with standard operating procedures developed by the Office of Programs for the Handicapped.
• Maintains required student and district records.
• Receives and responds to inquiries, concerns and complaints from staff, parents and other agency personnel regarding therapy services.
• Performs various office duties as necessary, including preparing reports and correspondence, compiling information and data for reports, attending meetings, copying and filing documents, answering the telephone, etc.
• Operates various types of machinery and equipment including a computer, printer, typewriter, calculator, copier, telephone, audiometer, hearing aids, scopes, augmentative devices, tape recorder, various other learning aids, etc.

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in speech/language pathology supplemented by one to two years of experience and/or training in speech therapy, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

• Must possess certification to meet State and Southern Association standards.

• Physical Requirements: Tasks involve the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, and which involves some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (up to 20 pounds).
• Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
• Interpersonal Communications: Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving assignments and/or direction from supervisor.
• Language Ability: Requires ability to read a variety of reports and documentation, policy and procedure manuals, medical texts, technical manuals, professional journals, etc. Requires the ability to prepare therapy plans, reports, records, recommendations, correspondence, etc., with proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar, using all parts of speech. Requires the ability to speak with and before others with poise, voice control and confidence.
• Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions; to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Requires the ability to apply to learn and understand relatively complex principles and techniques; to make independent judgments in absence of supervision; to acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation. Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow and give verbal and written instructions; to counsel and teach employees and clients. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with persons of varying ages and educational/cultural backgrounds and in a variety of technical and/or professional languages including special education, medical, counseling, sign language, etc.
• Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to add and subtract totals, to multiply and divide, to determine percentages and decimals and to determine time. Must be able to use practical applications of geometry and statistics.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape; to identify degrees of similarity or differences in form, shape, movement, etc.; and visually read various information.
• Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes using office and special therapeutic equipment/machinery; to operate motor vehicles.
• Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items, keyboards, office equipment, control knobs, buttons, switches, catches, therapy aids, etc. Must have moderate levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate colors and shades of color.
• Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress when confronted with emergency situations or tight deadlines. The worker may be subject to danger or risk to a moderate degree and to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.
• Physical Communications: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words; hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear).

What we Offer:

• Competitive Pay and Benefits
• 401k eligibility after 6 months of employment

Allyon, Inc. is an equal employment opportunities (EEO) employer and terms of employment are without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. Allyon, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

---