HEARING & SPEECH SPECIALIST

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Position Overview

The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire a Hearing and Speech Specialist for the Ludeman Developmental Center located in Park Forest, Illinois to provide comprehensive speech and language services for assigned individuals. Conducts assessments of communication disorders. Develops activities and programs to stimulate the development of speech and language. Serves as a member of the Interdisciplinary Team (ID), develops individual comprehensive service plans, and prepares detailed written and verbal reports.  Utilizes manual communication skills with individuals who are deaf and/hard-of-hearing.

Essential Functions

• Provides professional clinical services to individuals regarding testing, evaluation, and development of a regimen of treatment and therapy for resolution of communication, swallowing and/or hearing disorders.
• Serves as a member of the Interdisciplinary Team (ID), develops a comprehensive service plan which optimally meets each assigned individual’s needs.
• Signs for individuals who are deaf and/or hear-of-hearing.
• Prepares detailed written and verbal reports of assessments, treatment, counseling, recommendations, and analysis of treatment plans.
• Provides clinical supervision to students, lower-level staff and other speech-language-audiology service providers in the form of direction, counseling and technical review for college students assigned for internship training and clinical practicum.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires possession of a master’s degree in speech-language pathology or audiology from an approved program.
• Requires a license to practice speech-language pathology or audiology from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (DFPR).
• Requires a valid, current Professional Educator License (PEL) with endorsement as a speech-language pathologist (either teaching or non-teaching) issued by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).
• Requires the ability to communicate in sign language at a novice skill level.

Conditions of Employment

• Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends and holidays.
• Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers. 
• Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.
• Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
• Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
• The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties listed in the job description.

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