Careers

SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST

Seneca County

Posted 8/4/2025

Responsibilities

TYPICAL WORK ACTIVITIES: (Illustrative Only):
• Identification of children with communicative or oropharyngeal disorders and delays in development of communication
skills, including the diagnosis and appraisal of specific disorders and delays in those skills;
• Referral for medical or other professional services necessary for the habilitation or rehabilitation of children with
communicative or oropharyngeal disorders and delays in development of communication skills;
• Provision of services for the habilitation, rehabilitation, or prevention of communicative or oropharyngeal disorders and
delays in development of communication skills;
• Develops evaluation and rehabilitation plans for children with speech and feeding delays/disorders/impairments;
• Uses a wide variety of modalities to provide treatment focusing on improving sound production, speech, language
development, articulation, and feeding therapy;
• Evaluates child’s cognitive and social aspects of speech delay, limitations and sensory integration with regards to
challenging behavior and ineffective social skills;
• Performs and documents evaluation of child referred using evaluative techniques to diagnose speech
delays/disorders/impairments;
• Administers standardized evaluation tests/assessments as primary or generalist evaluator within a team – with regards to
five functional domains of growth and development – Communication (receptive and expressive), Physical (fine and gross
motor), Cognitive (thinking and reasoning), Social Emotional and Adaptive (self-help skills);
• Establishes and implements long-term and short-term therapy goals, treatment strategies and methods to aid in the
treatment/remediation of the delays/disorders/ impairments;
• Collaborates with the child’s family and team to provide intervention to meet the developmental, educational, functional
and medical speech therapy needs;
• Carries out plans to meet the needs of the child and family and routinely reviews the child’s progress/delays with team
members and supervisor;
• Consults with physicians and other health care and educational professionals and paraprofessionals as a member of a
multidisciplinary team in developing and implementing appropriate therapeutic approaches;
• Develops and implements remediation programs on an individual and/or group basis based on evaluative data and
behavioral objectives for each child;
• Provides therapy using various assistive technologies, augmentative communication devices, ASL, or adaptive feeding
devices;
• Provides communication based therapeutic strategies/techniques to parents / guardians / family / daycare providers to
increase their own capacity and confidence in their ability to help the child improve functional development relating to
the delay/disorder/impairment;
• Observes and measures progress of child receiving service;
• Establishes and maintains professional contacts with relative outside agencies to further benefit the overall treatment of
children and families;
• Visits houses of child, parents/guardians, family, daycare providers and works to establish services according to
child/family needs;
• Uses computer applications or other automated systems such as spreadsheets, word processing, calendar, email and
database software in performing work assignments;
• Prepares a variety of reports, including computer-based reports as required;
• Accesses protected educational and health information in accordance with departmental assignments and guidelines;
• Maintains a variety of case management related records;
• Reviews existing case records for available information for use in formulating need/plan of service in collaboration with
other team members;
• Other duties as assigned including (but not limited to) participation in emergency preparedness training, drills and real
event response activities.

Minimum Qualification

A. Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State approved College or University with a master’s degree in speech therapy AND one (1) year of full-time paid (or the equivalent part-time) post-licensure experience specifically performing speech therapy with children aged birth to five years; AND
B. Licensure and current registration to practice as a Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist and certificate of Teacher of the Speech and Hearing-Impaired in accordance with § 159 of the NYS Education Law; AND
C. Possession of a current American Red Cross Basic Life Support for the Professional Rescuer C.P.R. or equivalent certification.

Note: Your degree must have been awarded by a college or university accredited by a regional, national, or specialized agency
recognized as an accrediting agency by the U.S. Department of Education/U.S. Secretary of Education. If your degree was awarded
by an educational institution outside the United States and its territories, you must provide independent verification of equivalency.

A list of acceptable companies who provide this service can be found on the Internet at http://www.cs.ny.gov/jobseeker/degrees.cfm. You must pay the required evaluation fee.

Note: Verifiable part-time service may be given prorated credit toward experience requirements.

Special Requirement

RESIDENCY: Candidates must have been legal residents of Seneca County or one of the six (6) contiguous counties for one (1) month preceding the date of application. Preference in appointment may be given to successful candidates who have been legal residents of the municipality in which appointment is to be made for at least one (1) month prior to the date of certification and are residents of such municipality at the time of appointment.

Salary: 71,243