The SLPA will support licensed SpeechLanguage Pathologists (SLPs) in providing a variety of services in preschool elementary middle and highschool school settings to students with identified Communication disorders. The SLPA executes specific components of a speech and language program as specified in treatment plans developed by the SLP. Goals and objectives listed on the treatment plan and implemented by the SLPA are only those within their scope of responsibilities and are tasks the SLP has determined the SLPA has the training and skill to perform. The SLP must provide at least the minimum specified level of supervision to ensure the quality of care to all persons served. The amount of supervision may vary and must depend on the complexity of the case and the experience of the assistant. This is a fulltime schoolyear position in the Support Staff Collective Bargaining Unit with full benefits. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.Selfidentify as SLPAs to families students patients clients staff and others. This may be done verbally in writing and/or with titles on name badges.Exhibit compliance with The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) regulations reimbursement requirements and SLPAs responsibilities.Assist the SLP with speech language and hearing screenings without clinical interpretation.Assist the SLP during assessment of students patients and clients exclusive of administration and/or interpretation.Follow documented treatment plans or protocols developed by the supervising SLP.Document student patient and client performance (e.g. tallying data for the SLP to use; preparing charts records and graphs) and report this information to the supervising SLP.Program and provide instruction in the use of augmentative and alternative communication devices.Demonstrate or share information with patients families and staff regarding feeding strategies developed and directed by the SLP.The communities of the OSSU share an enthusiastic commitment to placebased learning sustainability education whole child and trauma informed practices proficiency based learning and farm to school. Our educators are collaborative creative lifelong learners who value rural culture. Our students are connected to nature each other and their community. We work together toward a vision of flourishing communities sustained by engaged compassionate skilled citizens.Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union (OSSU) serves schoolage children in the towns of Craftsbury Greensboro Hardwick Stannard Wolcott and Woodbury. Our schools are a source of pride in our communities. We believe in creating strong student family staff and community partnerships with the goal of providing an education that is relevant and meaningful to each child in our districts. Understanding that our students will be competing on a global level we aim to offer programs and practices that respect diversity embrace excellence promote equity and encourage lifelong learning. We take our responsibility seriously and appreciate the opportunity to work together to be stronger together in our school communities.