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We are seeking enthusiastic educators to create an exciting & challenging experience for children with special needs. Help prepare young children for meaningful lives by teaching cognitive socialemotional and motor skills throughout the day. Join our culture of patientcentered care.
Kids Unlimited Learning Academy (KULA) is an early intervention day treatment clinic for children with special needs. Once children are referred to KULA by their primary care physicians they must receive a developmental screening. Then they may be scheduled for therapy evaluations at KULA or bring recent therapy evaluation reports done elsewhere. To receive Early Intervention Day Treatment habilitation services a child must have a documented developmental disability or delay as shown on the results of an annual comprehensive developmental evaluation and qualify for at least one therapy service. Those services include (but are not limited to) fine motor delays sensory disorders gross motor delays speechlanguage delays hearing disorders feeding disorders developmental delays cognitive delays and medical needs.
Children are placed in treatment rooms based on their developmental needs and ages. Our treatment rooms are adequately staffed with teachers and teachers assistants and are designed to celebrate the cultural differences of the children and families we serve. KULA has many licensed occupational therapists physical therapists and speechlanguage pathologists on staff to provide needed care to the children who qualify for therapy services. And KULA has nurses on staff to serve children with medical needs.
KULAs services also include developmental/psychological testing by a licensed psychologist nutritional evaluations and consultations and audiological evaluations. Our whole treatment team works together and with our patients families to make sure each childs needs are met.
KULA typically treats children from birth to Kindergarten. However we try to expand our services during the summer months to include elementary schoolaged children with special needs. If you have a child who may benefit from our services we would love to hear from you.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education/ Certification:
- A Bachelors Degree plus one of the following:
- Current Arkansas Certification in Early Childhood Special Education
- A current Child Development Associate Certificate
- 12 hours of completed college courses in one of the following areasearly childhood child development special education/elementary education or child and family studies and documented experience in working with children with special needs
Experience/ Knowledge required:
- Prefer at least one year of successful experience in a classroom setting working with developmentally atrisk children or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Skills/ Abilities:
- Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with a wide variety of people
- Must be able to work with children birth to age 7 and families who are at risk
- Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and accuracy
- Basic computer skills which includes a working knowledge of database word processing spreadsheet and Internet software
- Ability to handle multiple tasks in a very busy environment
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules policies and other company documents. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of families or employees of organization
- Ability to add subtract multiply divide in all units of measure using whole numbers common fractions and decimals.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written oral or diagram form
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standard situations
Miracle Kids Success Academy/Kids Unlimited Learning Academy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.
Employment Type
Full-Time
