Supply Intervenor - Whitby, Canada - Toronto Catholic District School Board
Description
Title:
Supply Intervenor
Job Purpose:
Provides one-to-one instructional support to the student with deafblindness (combined loss of both hearing and vision), which allows the student to safely take part in, and benefit from existing educational programs and facilities within the school community, as well as fostering independence such that is appropriate to the student's ability.
Facilitates or provides access to communication between the student with deafblindness and other students, teachers, support staff, parents/guardians, consultants and others involved in the educational program, school and community.
Accountabilities
- FACILITATE COMMUNICATION: Provide intervenor services in a variety of settings throughout the school day to facilitate communication for students with deafblindess by relaying visual and instructional information, including subtleties and nuances that speech conveys, using a student's preferred mode of communication, and student's questions and replies to questions, encouraging direct interactions and facilitating communication between student and teacher, student and peers, etc.
- IMPLEMENT PROGRAM: Provide student and class support to facilitate integration (e.
- ENSURE SAFETY: Ensure safety of the student by acting as a sighted guide, especially in unfamiliar environments, on uneven surfaces, in heavily trafficked areas such as crowded hallways, and ensuring pathways are clear, maneuvering wheelchairs, walkers, adapted tricycles, mobility devices in a safe manner while monitoring the environment for hazards, orienting student to his/her environment, providing close supervision of student during physical tasks, such as physical education, in accordance with the behavioural and safety plans and procedures for the student with Deafblindness, maintaining confidentiality, staying with the student with deafblindness during recess or student's visual or sensory breaks in the school and on the school grounds, during school trips, community outings and work placements, scanning for hazards/changes to the environment and alerting the student to such changes, hazards and/or sounds/alarms related to the safety of the environment.
- PERFORM ATTENDANT CARE DUTIES: Perform attendant care duties such as lifting, transferring, cleaning, feeding and toileting, tracking inventory of supplies related to personal care, and ensuring appropriate staff assistance is present and able to assist for personal care activities such as washing, lifting, transferring, toileting.
- CONSULT AND BUILD CAPACITY: Consult with and build capacity with itinerant teachers, teachers, Special Education Resource Teachers, other staff, and students as appropriate to help raise awareness about deafblindness, address issues related to adaptations for existing equipment, keep parties informed of any difficulties or challenges that would interfere with educational progress or access to the program, including collecting data for classroom teacher, administrators, special education team and other professionals, providing daily anecdotal reports of classroom activities for student, mentoring Intervenor students from George Brown College, attending monthly Intervenor meetings, providing staff capacity building, providing information and workshops, at staff meeting, edu
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