ONLY QUALIFIED and SERIOUS APPLICANTS PLEASE
Role - 1:1 Education (Teaching) and Communication Partner
Open Date: August 1st, 2024
Salary: $25-$35 per hour, commensurate with experience. 30-hour week.
General Description of Position
The 1:1 Education and Communication Partner will be the daily partner to a 12-year-old boy who will continue his home-based education for his 6th grade year. The child has two significant speech challenges which make his expressive language (speech) difficult for peers and adults to understand. (His speech becomes understandable and decodable to an attentive listener within 2 weeks.) These speech challenges, as well as his global apraxia, make it difficult for him to learn within a typical school classroom. The child is therefore completing his education from home and accessing learning, therapeutic, and social scenarios throughout the community. The 1:1 is meant to be his communication partner - taking him to and joining him in his programming to support him with engagement and conversation with peers, adults, and the community as well as being his teacher for other academic curriculum when he is not with tutors or in educational programs. This involves ensuring his voice is heard, his feelings expressed, his interests conveyed, and his learning and therapeutic programming accessed. He can get frustrated and part of this job includes supporting his emotional regulation related to his learning and communication process.
The child is part of a loving, fun, and flexible family who is excited to have a 1:1 join the team and be a joyful and creative partner to the kid and family. The 1:1 will be supported and trained by the child’s parents, highly skilled therapists, and tutors.
The child is very interested in playing sports, listening to music, learning about animals, seeing and engaging with people, and playing games. He is an extremely empathetic and socially aware kiddo who is sometimes shy because he knows that most people don’t understand his words. Once he is comfortable with a person, he opens up and is a silly, kind, and curious kid. He also has his times of frustration and benefits from appropriate reminders about choice-making and behavior.
Responsibilities
- Lead and/or support experiential learning (with partnership from parents when needed)
- Play and engage with the child when no official programming is happening in his day
- Support and enable learning and homework from speech, reading, and math therapies
-Transportation to activities and therapies using family’s vehicle
- Do simple field trips based on mutual interest between child and 1:1
- Participate in some therapies and tutors
- Make sure child eats lunch and snack
Required Qualifications and Characteristics:
Open-minded, kind-hearted, patient, curious, good listener and quick learner
Determined and creative problem solver
Ability to explain and re-frame ideas and concepts
Enjoys interacting with kids
Experience working with elementary age and neurodiverse kids
Valid driver's license and clean driving record
Physical abilities: crouch and bend down, jog or move around to play sports
Can balance being loving and supportive with firm and directing
Preferred: Special Education teacher
Benefits:
$25-$35/hour (very much depending on experience and fit for the position)
30 hour week
Flexible, fun, and kind work environment
Opportunity to learn from and with a fantastic child with complex learning and speech challenges
Opportunity to observe and learn from a variety of teaching and therapeutic experts