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Job Field: Government Jobs
Location: SALT LAKE CITY, UT
Job Type: Part Time

JOB SUMMARY:

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Conducts one-on-one interventions in the home, classroom and/or community to provide clear and consistent sensory information to students who are both deaf and blind; along with the classroom instructor, serves as the learners contact person for all educational team members; works collaboratively with other professionals in integrating the recommendations of the educational team in order that the learner may achieve his/her IEP/IFSP goals as determined by the IEP/IFSP team; accompanies, supports and supervises student during community-based and classroom instruction; facilitates interaction with the teacher, other students, and community members; facilitates language development and other identified needs; provides clear and consistent communicated information to the learner with dual sensory impairment; facilitates the development of both expressive and receptive communication; conducts interventions to enable the learners participation, alone and with peers/adults, in activities and routines of the home, the classroom, and/or the community, which may include learning through the use of natural routines and activities such as bathing, playing, toileting, etc.; works cooperatively with parents; discusses and models intervention and communication techniques to enable better and more frequent parent and child interactions; serves on the learners educational team by assisting in the assessment of the learner, participating in the preparation of progress reports, behavior plans and data collection; attends and completes on-going in-service training as required; performs other duties as assigned. Knowledge of intervention strategies and methods, applicable state and federal guidelines and IFSP/IEP guidelines and procedures; ability to facilitate and interact with learner at his/her own communication level and to interact with parents and other members of learners educational team; ability to apply student specific interventions and share intervention techniques with parents and other service providers; ability to follow and implement verbal and/or written instructions. Lifting may be required for some positions, requiring the ability to lift and carry over fifty (50) pounds. American Sign Language (ASL) may be required for some positions.

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