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Amazing opportunity to work in a cutting-edge developmental language-based school founded by SLPs with attention to student-centered, meaningful and individualized learning.
• Full Time Salaried position with typical on-site hours 8:00-3:00 Monday to Friday in relationship-based, trauma informed therapeutic day school. (On site hours may vary depending on necessary prep and paperwork both before and after school)
• Work 44.4 weeks of year with 6 weeks non-student attendance paid vacation breaks for full time hire.
• Low student caseload up to 20.
• Competitive Salary commensurate with hours/weeks worked and experience.
• 12 PTO days.
• BCBS medical, dental and vision.
• Short-term/long-term disability and a life insurance.
• 403B retirement plan.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Reflective processing to support you in your work.
• Receive supervision and mentoring by a Speech Language Pathologist (DIR® Certified Trainer) with extensive experience in autism, developmental language model and developmental thinking through the SLP lens.
Make a difference in the life of a child with Autism!

IL Speech Language Pathologist License Required. Seeking candidate with professional experience with ASD of varied ages and developmental levels and interactive style that is playful, affectual and engaging. Strong foundation and understanding of language development and willingness to embrace developmental language thinking required.

Soaring Eagle Academy a not for profit, ISBE approved therapeutic day school in Lombard IL serving students ages 3 through 21 years old, faced with the challenges of Autism, is seeking a full time LICENSED SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST starting May 2023 or immediately, to serve in our Early Learning Pod K-2nd grade (caseload generally up to 20 students) joining our growing staff and student body, teaching in person 5 full days. SEA is following strict IDPH, CDC and ISBE COVID-19 guidelines including hand washing/cleaning and sanitizing measures, to the best of our ability in a mask optional environment.

The Academy was founded by three Speech Language Pathologists with an accumulation of over 80 years serving children and families with Autism and other related disorders, and a passion to showcase the amazing capacities of students with Autism to interact, communicate, think and learn. SEA is the only school of its kind to utilize a developmental language approach and developmental thinking implementing principles of DIR® Floortime, to understand and support students’ social, emotional, language, sensory motor and academic development. This is a unique opportunity to do cutting edge work with fellow therapists, teachers, support staff and 1:1 teacher assistants assigned to each student, who understand developmental language, sensory processing and emotional development and how they impact children with autism. We believe that the “behaviors” others see as impacting education for these students are a result of their lack of comprehension and challenges to process sensory and social/emotional information from their environment and communication partners. With our appropriate interpretation of their intentions, our language-based strategies and emotional and sensory supports- our students are soaring. Join our team! Our Speech Language Pathologists have a central role in the support of our students. For more information, please visit our website at www.soaringeagleacademy.org

QUALIFICATIONS:
• Licensed by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
• Experience/ interest working with children, and their families, of various age and developmental levels with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Strong foundation and understanding of language development and willingness to embrace developmental language thinking required.
• Interactive style that is playful, affectual and engaging.
• Willingness to gain knowledge and participate in direct coaching/training in DIR® Floortime and developmental language methodology and its effects on sensory processing, regulation and modulation.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
• Evaluate, plan and implement Speech Language Therapy services according to DIR® and Developmental Language model methodology and practices.
• Develop treatment plans and visual supports for each therapy and group session keeping a therapy log to document services, student performance, and data collection.
• Provide individual or group intervention as needed including lunch and recess.
• Support the facilitation and implementation of AAC devices as necessary for student communication.
• Serve as a support staff member under the direction of the classroom teacher, covering groups or students as needed, to support a safe and positive learning environment.
• Support students’ morning and afternoon transitions in/out of school during student transportation arrival and departure.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members and parents to maximize services and support to each student.
• Provide direction, instruction and coaching to staff in the classroom environment to support Speech and Language plan goals.
• Assist and facilitate student-directed play, student groups, interaction and classroom work to sustain interactions, problem solving and learning.
• Ability to modulate and demonstrate affect appropriate to the situation to facilitate learning.
• Acknowledge and reflect on each student’s feelings and behavior in a caring and respectful manner.
• Engage in and support physical activities initiated by students including but not limited to, jumping, climbing, rolling, sitting/lying on the floor, swinging.
• Act and respond to each student’s behavior according to the strategies developed in the student’s Individual Regulatory Support Plan and Safety Plan.
• Support appropriate educational curriculum in accordance with Illinois Common Core Learning Standards.
• Assist in developing and maintaining Individual Education Plan goals and collecting progress, monitoring data to report student progress quarterly.
• Participate supporting students during the lunch period.
• Participate in arrival and departure of students
• Ability to wear a facemask when required in the school building, even when social distance is maintained, except while drinking or eating.
• Ability to bend, kneel, sit (on a chair or the floor) and stand moving easily and quickly from kneel to stand, sit to stand and stand to walk positions.
• Ability to walk up to a mile in distance.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds easily with no assistance from others.
• Ability to engage in and support physical activities initiated by students including but not limited to, jumping, running, climbing, rolling, sitting/lying on the floor, swinging.
• Ability to act and respond to a student’s dysregulation/behavior/combative and aggressive actions according to the strategies developed in the student’s Individualized Regulatory Support Plan, Safety Plan and SEA non-violent crisis intervention policy and procedures.
• Ability to quickly move away from and avoid combative/aggressive actions or behaviors of students.
• Ability to physically follow in close proximity and support students when he/she flees (runs) from an activity, an interaction or the learning environment.
• Ability to physically support students on indoor/outdoor therapeutic equipment.
• Acknowledge and reflect on student’s feelings and behavior in a caring and respectful manner.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Immediate (Students are in attendance for 220 school days, 181 regular days and 39 summer session days). FULL TIME- Work a salaried regular full-time position with typical on site hours Monday through Friday 8:00 to 3:00pm. While the on-site work schedule is typically 8:00 to 3:00pm, as a salaried employee, you will be expected to work the hours to complete the duties of the position and will report to work sufficiently in advance of the start of the school day and to remain after the end of the school day, so that student needs may be met and preparations for the next day can be made. Therefore, expected on site hours may vary depending on necessary prep and paperwork both before and after school. Work a total of 222 days, 44.4 weeks per year since there are 6 weeks of non-student attendance paid vacation breaks (2-week winter break, spring break, 2 week summer break and one week break before the new school year) and holidays with salary based on these hours, weeks of service and experience. Full-time staff employed 52 weeks of the year with 6 paid weeks off for non-student attendance.

BENEFITS: Eligible for medical and ancillary benefits for this full-time position. Benefits can include BCBS medical, with SEA contributing a portion of the total cost, employee funded dental and vision insurance benefits. Short-term, long-term disability insurance and a life insurance benefit are offered at no cost. 12 paid sick and personal days to be utilized by employee. Receive $250 reimbursement annually for continuing education. Reflective processing to support your work with students and families.

SALARY: Competitive salary aligned with work hours/weeks and commensurate with experience and qualifications. * Sign on BONUS details given upon hire.*