Green Hills Area Education Agency is looking to fill an Educational Audiologist position for the 2024-2025 school year.

We offer a competitive starting wage and excellent benefits, including IPERS. Green Hills pays 100% of employee single coverage for medical, dental and vision. We also offer family insurance at a great rate.

Qualifications:

Meet Iowa Department of Education guidelines for Audiology or a current License from the Department of Health with Statement of Professional Recognition from the Iowa Department of Education

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provide hearing conservation services related to prevention, identification, and assessment of hearing loss.
• Participate as a multidisciplinary team member assessing the needs of children with hearing loss.
• Assist the Green Hills AEA Administration in any matter which may command priority and bring to their attention issues of concern regarding special education services and programs to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Coordinate and/or cooperate with Agency audiometrists to provide hearing screenings for students as outlined by Agency policy.
• Perform as a minimum air conduction thresholds and tympanometry on students failing hearing screening.
• Make appropriate medical referrals as per Agency policy.
• Recommend the purchase of equipment, supplies and materials for AEA and LEA’s on request.
• Provide follow-up hearing evaluations on students referred to a physician and/or other students known to have depressed hearing acuity.
• Provide or make available written reports according to AEA policies.
• Coordinate and/or cooperate with audiometrists to prepare and/or maintain or make available file records, if properly requested, for each student, i.e. medical referrals, sensori-neural losses, etc.
• Assist in determining those students in need of amplification: hearing aids, auditory trainers, classroom amplification systems for identified students.
• Perform and/or report evaluations at least annually on those students using amplification, including but not limited to aided pure-tone thresholds and electro-acoustic evaluation.
• Make ear mold impressions when necessary to obtain ear molds for auditory trainers.
• Perform troubleshooting of amplification systems for students with hearing impairment when necessary.
• Participate in problem solving assessments by evaluating hearing impaired students classroom performance via the S.I.F.T.E.R protocol.
• Participate in the Newborn Audiology Program in conjunction with local hospitals as determined by AEA policies.
• Provide recommendations and/or services to classroom teachers and other necessary personnel, including but not limited to preferential seating.