Bilingual Speech Language Pathologist (2027/2028 School Year)

Illinois School District U-46; Elgin (IL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

Illinois School District U-46 is seeking a Speech and Language Pathologist for the Special Education department in Elgin, IL. The role involves working with students, parents, and staff to identify, evaluate, and remediate articulation, voice, fluency, and language disorders.

Responsibilities include assessment, developing IEPs, providing direct services and pull-out sessions, coordinating with teachers, and documenting progress in a web-based IEP system.

Qualifications

• Illinois certificate with SLP endorsement required.
• IL SLP license from IDFPR required.
• Master’s degree or higher in Speech-Language Pathology required.

Responsibilities

• Provide prevention through consultation, staff training, and parent communications.
• Assess and identify needs; conduct screenings and referrals for evaluation, determine eligibility for services and develop IEPs.
• Deliver interventions including caseload management, direct remediation in the educational setting, and collaboration with teachers.
• Maintain IEPs/evaluations in the web-based system and participate in annual review meetings.
• Collaborate with school staff to support students’ communication goals.

Skills

Speech-language pathology expertise

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Assessment and evaluation

Caseload management

Education

Illinois Certificate with Speech and Language Pathology endorsement

Illinois SLP license (IDFPR)

Master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology

Tools

Web-based IEP management system

Job description

NOTE: This posting has been opened for application intake for anyone interested in a position with School District U-46 for the 2027/2028 school year. We anticipate the review of applications to begin sometime near the end of January.

• Position / Title: Speech and Language Pathologist
• Bargaining Unit: ETA
• Department/Location: Special Education
• Work Days: 184
• Reports To: Assistant Director of Special Education
• JD Revision Date: 06-14-2023
• Supervises: N/A

Function / Position Summary

To work with parents, students, and staff in order to prevent, identify, evaluate and remediate a wide range of oral communication problems, including articulation, voice, fluency and language disorders.

Job Duties / Responsibilities

• Prevention can include consultation, in service training, and speaking with parents and parent groups.
• Identification can include pre-referral (student support teams), screenings, and referrals for the evaluation process.
• Assessment may include data collection through standardized or non-standardized measures, interpretation, report writing, sharing results with parents and staff, determining eligibility for services, and developing IEP’s.
• Intervention can include caseload management (scheduling), direct remediation within the educational setting, pull out services, consulting on academic and social issues, developing ongoing goals, documenting progress, collaborating with classroom teachers, and holding annual review meetings.
• Completing caseload records for special education funding.
• Maintaining student IEP’s and evaluations on web-based computer program.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting.

Education

• Illinois Certificate with Speech and Language Pathology endorsement (Type 73 or Type 10 or Type 03/09).
• Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Speech Language Pathologist License.
• Master’s degree or higher in Speech Language Pathology.

Environmental Conditions

• Must work in noisy and crowded environments.
• Indoors or outdoors in a busy school environment.
• Frequently work at a fast pace with unscheduled interruptions.
• May be required to leave main work site to attend meetings.
• Public contact requiring appropriate business-like apparel.

Physical Demands

• Requires prolonged sitting or standing.
• Occasionally requires physical exertion to manually move, lift carry, pull, or push heavy objects or materials.
• Occasional stooping, bending, and reaching.

Terms of Employment

• Nine-month position (184 work days)
• The starting salary for this role is $60,689.