1229 Speech-Language Pathologist Cherokee area area
1229 Speech-Language Pathologist Cherokee area area
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Job Description
Posting 1229
Posting date: March 4 2025
Interviews: Interviews begin the week of March 17 2025 with applications being accepted until position is filled
Location:Cherokee area
Region: East
Overview
Northwest AEA provides visionary leadership and quality studentcentered services through relationships with families schools and communities. In short our focus can be summed up in these four words: Inspiring Learning. Changing Lives.
Our vision is to be the first contact for timely and ongoing support to improve the performance outcomes and wellbeing of all learners.
About the Agency
Northwest AEA provides special education and school improvement services to 34 public school districts and 32 accredited nonpublic schools. The agency serves 45000 students and more than 5000 educators in a 10county area of Northwest Iowa (Lyon Osceola Sioux OBrien Plymouth Cherokee Woodbury Ida Monona and Crawford).
Our headquarters is located at 5800 Discovery Blvd. Sioux City with regional offices in Cherokee Denison Le Mars Onawa and Sioux Center.
Why Northwest AEA
Our vision mission and anchors guide our actions. Staff at Northwest AEA believe that what they do inspires learning and leads to changed lives for the students staff and families we serve. Our work is anchored in building positive professional relationships with stakeholders and with one another. We embrace responsiveness in how we serve so that students staff and families can see improved results.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Qualifications:
- Masters degree in speech pathology.
- State of Iowa professional service license or statement of professional recognition from the Iowa Department of Education.
- Iowa Department of Public Health speech pathologist license or a speech pathologist temporary clinical license.
Job Purpose: Provide specialized evaluation instruction and consultative services required to meet the unique educational needs of students who are experiencing educational difficulty within a multidisciplinary problemsolving team structure.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Assist AEA/LEA problemsolving teams in designing implementing and evaluating intervention plans and making subsequent instructional decisions for students experiencing communication learning or behavior problems.
- Participate in full and individual student evaluations using analysis of interventions planning assessment and reporting and determine eligibility for speechlanguage services based on state entrance and exit guidelines.
- Provide consultative services to parents students teachers and others including working with case managers to update progressmonitoring data.
- Assist the AEA and LEAs regarding compliance with special education rules and regulations.
- Assist in the development and implementation of IEPs and IFSPs and provide support and related services as determined by the IEP team.
- Supervise student interns/CFY and ASHA as requested.
- Outline duties to be carried out by the speechlanguage pathology assistant and provide continuing guidance as needed.
- Develop and implement therapy plans for students to be implemented by the speechlanguage assistant (when appropriate).
- Provide training for professional development and program planning to teachers parents and support staff when requested and appropriate.
- Use available technology to complete and disseminate appropriate documentation of activities and results.
- Adhere to the Iowa Department of Education rules IDEA Part B and C statutes and regulations and Northwest AEA policies and procedures.
- Work within the current AEA problemsolving process.
- Other duties as assigned.
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A transfer shall be considered a change in an employees assigned region (East North West) within the same job role in another region. If you are interested in making a transfer request contact Sherri Wing for transfer request application. If you are not currently serving in this role but want to be considered for a role change to this position please contact Sherri Wing for the role change application.
It is the policy of Northwest Area Education Agency not to discriminate on the basis of race color national origin sex disability religion creed age marital status sexual orientation gender identity and socioeconomic status in its educational programs and its employment practices. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of discrimination. If you have questions or a grievance related to this policy please contact Jerome Schaefer Equity Coordinator 5800 Discovery Blvd. Sioux City Iowa.
Employment Type
Full-Time
