Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Evaluating levels of swallowing, speech and language difficulty
• Identifying treatment options
• Creating and carrying out individualized treatment plans addressing specific functional needs
• Teaching patients how to make sounds while improving their voices and maintaining fluency
• Helping individuals improve sentence structure and vocabulary used in written and oral language
• Working with adults and children in developing and strengthening muscles used to swallow
• Counseling individuals and families on ways to cope with swallowing and communication disorders

Requirements:

• Analytical skills for selecting the best diagnostic tools and analyzing results to identify an accurate diagnosis while developing an effective treatment plan.
• Communication skills for communicating diagnoses, test results and available treatments in terms that clients and their families can understand.
• Compassion when working with individuals frustrated by the difficulties they are experiencing.
• Critical thinking skills for adjusting treatment plans as required and identifying alternative ways to help.
• Attention to detail for maintaining notes on treatment and progress.
• Listening skills for listening to concerns and symptoms of clients so they can decide the most appropriate course of treatment.

Bachelor in Speech and Learning Therapy

1-3 years of experience

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ?40,000.00 - ?50,000.00 per month

Schedule:

• Day shift

Work Location: In person