About the Role
Shrub Oak International School (SOIS) is a therapeutic day and residential school for autistic children, adolescents, and young adults with complex co-occurring conditions. We offer unparalleled educational opportunities for autistic students in a family-centric, supportive environment, utilizing advanced evidence-based clinical and academic approaches.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate communication needs, develop and implement individualized treatment plans, and support functional communication across educational, residential, vocational, and community environments.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and families.
- Promote meaningful participation, independence, and quality of life for autistic children, adolescents, and young adults with complex co-occurring conditions.
- Conduct comprehensive speech-language, communication, AAC, and related evaluations and re-evaluations.
- Develop and implement individualized, evidence-informed treatment plans aligned with each student’s strengths, needs, and goals.
- Provide individual and group speech-language therapy within a transdisciplinary model of care.
- Assess, recommend, implement, and monitor augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems, including high- and low-tech supports.
- Monitor student progress using clinical observation, outcome measures, and ongoing data collection, modifying treatment plans as appropriate.
- Promote functional communication, self-advocacy, autonomy, and participation across educational, residential, vocational, community, and family settings.
- Maintain timely, accurate, and clinically meaningful documentation in accordance with organizational and regulatory standards.
- Participate in interdisciplinary assessment, treatment planning, and Individualized Transdisciplinary Education Plans (ITEPs).
- Collaborate with Mental Health, Behavior Analysis, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Nursing, Psychiatry, Education, Residential, and other team members.
- Provide consultation to staff to promote the generalization of communication skills across settings.
- Participate in admissions, quarterly reviews, transition planning, and discharge planning.
- Partner with families through consultation, education, and ongoing communication regarding student progress and communication strategies.
- Support the generalization of communication skills across home, school, residential, and community environments.
- Provide coaching and consultation to educational, residential, and clinical staff regarding communication strategies and AAC implementation.
- Support staff in understanding communication differences and adapting environments to maximize student access.
- Participate in professional development and contribute discipline-specific expertise to organizational learning.
- Participate in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Schools (TCIS) and other required safety training.
- Support communication during behavioral crises and assist in developing proactive communication supports.
- Recognize changes in student presentation requiring interdisciplinary intervention and follow mandated reporting and organizational safety procedures.
- Model ethical, professional, and relationship-centered practice.
- Maintain discipline-specific licensure, certification, and professional competencies.
- Participate in supervision, department meetings, quality improvement activities, and ongoing professional development.
- Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
Requirements
- Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology
- NYS Licensure in good standing
- Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP)
- Teacher of Students with Speech and Language Disabilities (TSSLD) certification
- Ability to ambulate around the campus, including hills, stairs, grass, and gravel.
- Ability to react and move quickly during student crisis, both for the safety of the student and for the staff.
- Ability to run across the campus and throughout the school to catch/monitor an eloping student, and/or to remove yourself from an unsafe situation.
- Ability to pass TCIS (Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training for Schools).
- Ability to bend, stretch, sit, stand, crouch, or kneel for sustained periods of time if implementing a hold.
Skills
- Speech-language pathology
- Communication needs evaluation
- Individualized treatment plan development and implementation
- Functional communication support
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Family collaboration
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) systems
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Schools (TCIS)
- Evidence-informed intervention
- Reflective practice
Location
- On Site
Work Type
- Full-time
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Up to 3 years of experience preferred
Education Level
- Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology
- NYS Licensure
- Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP)
- Teacher of Students with Speech and Language Disabilities (TSSLD) certification
Salary/Compensations
- $70,000 - $90,000 annually
Benefits
- Reduced Cost Meals every shift on site
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Insurance coverage: Health, vision, dental, life, supplemental and pet insurance (FT)
- Flexible spending account (FSA) (FT)
- Generous Paid time off (PTO) (FT)
- 401k w/company match (FT)
- Tuition/Professional development assistance (FT)
About the Company
- Shrub Oak International School (SOIS) is a therapeutic day and residential school for autistic children, adolescents, and young adults with complex co-occurring conditions.
- Located in northern Westchester County, Shrub Oak offers unparalleled educational opportunities for autistic students in a family-centric, supportive environment.
- Our curriculum is based on the most advanced and successful evidence-based clinical and academic approaches in ASD education.
- SOIS maintains a smoke-free environment to ensure the health and safety of our students, employees, and community.
- We are a residential school located on a scenic 127-acre campus which includes multiple buildings and a working farm for student programming.
- The work environment will include both indoor and outdoor spaces.
- SOIS is a community of dedicated professionals that work together to find meaning with and for our students.
- We strive to make every day memorable in positive ways, and to manage students’ difficulties as a team.
- We are accountable, timely, and show up whenever needed to support our students and each other.
- We are guided day-to-day by our four core principles: We Care, We are Innovative, We are Collaborative, We are Resourceful.
- Clinical Services at Shrub Oak International School operates within a fully integrated interdisciplinary model of care.
- We value collaboration, mutual respect, share clinical decision-making, and reflective practice, recognizing that meaningful student outcomes are achieved through the integration of diverse professional perspectives.
- Team members are expected to contribute their discipline-specific expertise while remaining open to learning from colleagues, sharing responsibility for student outcomes, and engaging in ongoing reflective practice.
Equal Opportunity
- Shrub Oak International School is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Reasonable accommodation can be requested to enable individuals with disabilities to apply for a job or to perform the essentials functions of their job.
- Requests may be approved if the position/department/school/students will not be adversely affected.
- Please advise us if you require a reasonable accommodation.
