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Speech Language Pathologist (2027/2028 School Year)

School District U-46 (Elgin, IL)

Elgin, ILFull-time$61K/yrPosted 2 days agoStill listed 1 day ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$61K/yr
Location
Elgin, IL
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Illinois Speech Pathology EndorsementIllinois SLP LicenseMaster's degree

Job overview

The Speech and Language Pathologist works with parents, students, and staff to prevent, identify, evaluate, and remediate oral communication problems, including articulation, voice, fluency, and language disorders. The role includes prevention, screening, assessment, and intervention activities in a school setting, along with maintaining student records and collaborating with school teams.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

ConsultationScreeningAssessmentData InterpretationReport WritingIEP DevelopmentCaseload ManagementRemediationProgress DocumentationTeam CollaborationWorking in Noisy EnvironmentsProlonged Sitting or StandingLifting and Moving Objects

Qualifications

Illinois Speech Pathology EndorsementIllinois SLP LicenseMaster's Degree in Speech Language Pathology

Full job description

NOTE: This posting has been opened for application intake for anyone interested in a position with School District U-46 for the 2027/2028 school year. We anticipate the review of applications to begin sometime near the end of January. If you are interested in a role for the current 2026/2027 school year, we encourage you to check out our open vacancies. Position / Title: Speech and Language Pathologist Bargaining Unit: ETADepartment/Location: Special Education

Work Days: 184Reports To: Assistant Director of Special Education

JD Revision Date: 06-14-2023Supervises: N/A

Function / Position Summary To work with parents, students, and staff in order to prevent, identify, evaluate and remediate a wide range of oral communication problems, including articulation, voice, fluency and language disorders. Job Duties / Responsibilities

  • Prevention can include consultation, in service training, and speaking with parents and parent groups.
  • Identification can include pre-referral (student support teams), screenings, and referrals for the evaluation process.
  • Assessment may include data collection through standardized or non-standardized measures, interpretation, report writing, sharing results with parents and staff, determining eligibility for services, and developing IEP's.
  • Intervention can include caseload management (scheduling), direct remediation within the educational setting, pull out services, consulting on academic and social issues, developing ongoing goals, documenting progress, collaborating with classroom teachers, and holding annual review meetings.
  • Completing caseload records for special education funding.
  • Maintaining student IEP's and evaluations on web-based computer program.
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting.

Education

  • Illinois Certificate with Speech and Language Pathology endorsement (Type 73 or Type 10 or Type 03/09).
  • Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Speech Language Pathologist License.
  • Master's degree or higher in Speech Language Pathology.

Environmental Conditions

  • Must work in noisy and crowded environments.
  • Indoors or outdoors in a busy school environment.
  • Frequently work at a fast pace with unscheduled interruptions.
  • May be required to leave main work site to attend meetings.
  • Public contact requiring appropriate business-like apparel.

Physical Demands

  • Requires prolonged sitting or standing.
  • Occasionally requires physical exertion to manually move, lift carry, pull, or push heavy objects or materials.
  • Occasional stooping, bending, and reaching.

Terms of Employment

  • Nine-month position (184 work days)
  • The starting salary for this role is $60,689.

How this job compares

Set against the 3,496 open Speech-Language Pathologist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$61K/yr
  • US median$82–112K/yr537 salary ranges

This rate, $61K, is 37% below the US median midpoint ($96K) — in the lowest quarter of Speech-Language Pathologist salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 140 open Speech-Language Pathologist jobs in Illinois and 3,496 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
Speech-Language Pathologist postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (981 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a master's degree; 1,625 of the 3,496 open Speech-Language Pathologist jobs (46%) ask for a master's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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