In person Speech-Language Pathologists

Position Summary

Provide developmental instruction including: services that include working in a coaching role with the family or other caregiver, the design of learning environments and implementation of planned activities that promote the child's healthy development and acquisition of skills that lead to achieving outcomes in the child's IFSP.

Developmental instruction provides families and/or other caregivers with the information, skills, and support to enhance the child's development. Developmental instruction addresses all developmental areas: cognitive, communication, physical/motor, vision, hearing), social or emotional and adaptive development. Developmental instruction services are provided in collaboration with the family and other personnel providing early intervention services in accordance with the IFSP.

Family therapy, counseling and training will provide services, as appropriate, by licensed social workers, family therapists, counselors, psychologists, and other qualified personnel to assist the parent(s) in understanding the special needs of their child, supporting the parent-child relationship, and to assist with emotional, mental health and relationship issues of the parent(s) related to parenting and supporting their child's healthy development.

Provide services including: those services that enable an eligible child to benefit from early intervention services during the time that the child is receiving other early intervention services and include the assessment of health status for the purpose of providing nursing care; the identification of patterns of human response to actual or potential health problems; provision of nursing care to prevent health problems, restore or improve functioning, and promote optimal health and development; and administration of medication, treatments, and regimens prescribed by a licensed physician.

Nutrition services will include conducting individual assessments in nutritional history and dietary intake; anthropometric biochemical and clinical variables; feeding skills and feeding problems; and food habits and food preferences. Nutrition services also include developing and monitoring appropriate plans to address the nutritional needs of eligible children; and making referrals to appropriate community resources to carry out nutrition goals.

Provide occupational therapy services including: those services that address the functional needs of a child related to adaptive development, adaptive behavior and play, and sensory, motor, and postural development. These services are designed to improve the child's functional ability to perform tasks in a home, school, and community setting. Occupational therapy includes identification, assessment, and intervention; adaptation of the environment and selection, design and fabrication of assistive and orthotic devices to facilitate the development and promote the acquisition of functional skills, and prevention or minimization of the impact of initial or future impairment, delay in development, or loss of functional ability.

Provide physical therapy services including: those services that promote sensorimotor function through enhancement of musculoskeletal status, neurobehavioral organization, perceptual and motor development, cardiopulmonary status, and effective environmental adaptation. Included are screening, evaluation, and assessment of infants and toddlers to identify movement dysfunction; obtaining interpreting, and integrating information appropriate to program planning to prevent or alleviate movement dysfunction and related functional problems; and providing individual and group services to prevent or alleviate movement dysfunction and related functional problems.

Provide including: those activities as designated in the IFSP that include identifying, mobilizing, and coordinating community resources and services to enable the child and family to receive maximum benefit from early intervention services; preparing a social or emotional developmental assessment of the child within the family context; making home visits to evaluate patterns of parent-child interaction and the child's living conditions, providing individual and family-group counseling with parents and other family members, and appropriate social skill-building activities with the child and parents; and working with those problems in a child's and family's living situation that affect the child's maximum utilization of early intervention services.

Provide speech and language pathology services including: those services as designated in the IFSP which include identification of children with communicative or oral-motor disorders and delays in development of communication skills, including the diagnosis and appraisal of specific disorders and delays in those skills; provision of services for the habilitation or rehabilitation of children with communicative or oral-motor disorders and delays in the development of communication skills; and provision of services for the habilitation, rehabilitation, or prevention of communicative or oral-motor disorders and delays in development of communication skills.