Preschool Teacher of the DeafHard of Hearing

The Atlanta Speech School:

Preschool Teacher of the Deaf/Hard of Hearing Katherine Hamm CenterTwo-Year-Old Classroom

Start Date: January 5 2026

TheAtlanta Speech School provides an unmatched opportunity to learn from both peers and experts in the field. Beyond seeking proficiency we work to construct a Deep Reading Brain for each child. Deep reading requires learning to make connections between what we read to what we think feel and do. Through deep reading children develop empathy hone critical thinking and go on to make the greatest possible difference in the lives of others.

Founded over 85 years ago the Atlanta Speech School has evolved into four school divisions clinical programs and the Rollins Center for Language & Literacy (our professional development program) withRollins free online Cox Campus. Across all our programs we are committed to equity and driven to ensure that each child can find their voice.We do this through our mission to help each person develop their full potential through language and literacy and extend our mission through our vision of literacy and justice for all.

The educational equivalent of a teaching hospital we lead change through the extension of our work - what occurs in the classroom for each child at the Atlanta Speech School is extended to every child through our free online learning platformCox Campus. Cox Campus membership is composed of more than 270000 educators leaders healthcare professionals and parents representing all fifty states and 100 countries.

The School across all its programs including the Katherine Hamm Center attracts a staff of the most gifted and committed teaching professionals who apply the research of the nations leading brain development and educational experts to achieve transformational language and literacy outcomes for children not as an end goal but as their start to deciding their own future.

Our focus on language and literacy is through the construction of the Deep Reading Brain. This means that:

• We believe in connection over compliance. Rather than silencing children we teach them to listen - and to think to question and to solve.
• Our staff works together to know and serve each child from within an intentional learning ecosystem that is as joyful as it is rigorous.
• Our practices are grounded in structured literacy and built on the sciences of healthy brain development language acquisition and the construction of the Deep Reading work is intentionally centered around critical thinking empathy problem solving and the development of executive functioning.

We are committed to providing an environment in which all our students families and staff show up safely as themselves. As stewards of this environment it is our responsibility to ensure safety extends to every person inclusive of all races /ethnicities religions genders family structures sexual orientations and any other aspect of their identity.

The School has never turned away a child in need of services based on his or her familys financial circumstances.

Program Information:

The Katherine Hamm Center is a program for individuals from birth through 99 who are deaf/hard of hearing and on the path to literacy through listening and spoken language. Children enrolled in the Katherine Hamm Center have access to all sounds of speech through listening technology such as hearing aids or cochlear implants. The Katherine Hamm Center serves children through its preschool program (14 months-PreK) and through Auditory-Verbal Therapy (children of all ages). The Katherine Hamm Center partners with adults who are post-lingually deafened through Aural Rehabilitation. Auditory-Verbal Therapy and Aural Rehabilitation are offered both in person and virtually.

Position Summary:

The Katherine Hamm Center has an opening for a full-time preschool teacher for the second half of the 2025-2026 school year. The teacher will provide language-rich experiences to children who are deaf/hard of hearing and children of staff members who have not been diagnosed with a hearing loss using Auditory-Verbal principles to develop listening and spoken language. Teaching takes place in a school setting with small groups (up to 6). The teacher is responsible for evaluating identifying appropriate goals providing experiences to meet those goals and reporting progress to each childs team. The teacher will collaborate with a team of professionals (parents OTs SLPs Preschool Counselors Director Curriculum Specialist Educational Audiologists Managing Audiologist and outside therapists) to create the optimal learning experience for each child.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan and implement lessons for preschool-aged children who are deaf/hard of hearing and their hearing peers with particular emphasis on speech language auditory and literacy development
• Lead parent conferences at least three times a year
• Maintain an effective system for communicating with parents colleagues and outside personnel regarding childrens development.
• Work collaboratively with each childs team to ensure exemplary services are provided for each child

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Masters degree in Education of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communication Disorders or Speech-Language Pathology
• Georgia certification or eligible for certification
• Strong understanding of Auditory-Verbal principles
• Knowledge of cochlear implants hearing aids and assistive listening devices
• LSLS Certification preferred
• A commitment to ongoing professional development is required

Among the many programs at the Atlanta Speech School children and adults with hearing loss and language processing difficulties are served. Therefore the clarity and accuracy of an applicants speech and language may be part of the hiring decision as they relate to performing the essential functions of the position.

Benefits:

This 190-day 35 hour/week school position offers a generous benefit package including health/dental/life/vision and long term disability insurance; the School subsidizes health insurance premiums of staff and families. Other benefits include Flexible Spending Account; 403(b) Plan; cost reduction of some Atlanta Speech School services; complimentary meals during working hours; and accrued sick leave.

Salary:

Salary is commensurate with experience.

To Apply:

Please submit all of the following documents to ensure that your information is considered: cover letter resume college transcript and a written submission describing how your particular skills talents and/or expertise could be beneficial to the Hamm Center (please limit to 500 words).

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The Atlanta Speech School Inc. does not discriminate based on race color religion national origin age gender or disability.