Communicative Disorders Assistant - Toronto, Canada - SURREY PLACE

SURREY PLACE

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Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Program:
Children and Youth Services**
Status: Full Time Contract, (12 Months)

Hours: 36.25 hours/ week

Date Posted:
March 13, 2024

Posting Close:
March 27, 2024

About Surrey Place:

Surrey Place is a not-for-profit that serves people of all ages with developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and visual impairments in the Toronto region and Northwestern Ontario.

We offer integrated services and inclusive support in a safe and welcoming environment.

Our approach is family-based, which centres the interests and care of our clients, families and caregivers by teaching them skills.

We strive to ensure the greatest access to services and support our clients in navigating the health care system. Surrey Place helps people learn new skills, gain self-confidence and reach their full potential.

Position Description:

Children and Youth Services at Surrey Place is seeking a Communicative Disorders Assistant.

Reporting to the Manager, Children and Youth Services, the Communicative Disorders Assistant works as part of an interdisciplinary team, under the daily oversight of a Speech-Language Pathologist, providing Augmentative and Alternative Communication services to children and adults with developmental disabilities and their families and caregivers.

Main Responsibilities:

Support clients and families to achieve service goals through mediator model.
Provide equipment management of ACWA loans and vendor purchased/leased systems.
Develop and run clinical groups and workshops.
Provide consultations to professionals at schools, therapy programs and in the community.
Create communication materials and program Speech-Generating Devices.
Provide training to clients, caregivers, and professionals on the technical operations of the AAC devices/software.

Qualifications:

Graduate diploma in Communicative Disorders or other relevant courses
Six months related experience, and have a thorough understanding of physiological and functional speech/language and hearing disorders, programming skills and intervention techniques to evoke and sustain communication behaviours
Speech and language intervention and assessment, including augmentative and alternative communication, developmental disabilities, and their effects on communication
Sign language (Signed English, American Sign Language) and lowtech and hightech Speech Generating Devices
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