Speech Therapist Verified listing

Responsibilities:

• Planning for developmentally appropriate, customized sessions.
• Conducting regular scheduled sessions for children with Down syndrome.
• Preparation of speech and language goals and learning outcomes and designing and modifying therapy plans as and when needed.
• Administering assessments of speech & language development, as necessary for revisions, re-evaluation and measurement.
• Maintaining daily logs on therapy progress and planning further therapy.
• Responding & attending to child and/or parents’/caregivers’ questions and comments.
• Using consistent and proactive behavior modification/management techniques.
• Responding to situations in appropriate, fair, and consistent ways, while taking advice and assistance from the supervisor/head of department.
• Communicating plans, goals, methods and directions clearly & accurately to parents/caregivers.
• Providing brief home plans/assignments to promote generalization of skills, strategies taught during therapy sessions.
• Giving parents/caregivers clear, accurate, specific, meaningful, and timely feedback to enhance their child’s speech & language development.
• Writing and delivering reports to parents/caregivers when needed.
• Preparing and sharing evaluation reports of children in therapy cyclically, or when requested by program leads.
• Counseling children, parents/caregivers and/or families on how to cope with communication disorders and other interrelated issue areas.
• Any other task as assigned by the management.