Posted By: Jai Vakeel Foundation
Mumbai
Junior Management
Technical Advisor / Specialist
Disability
About the Organisation
In India 2%, one in every 50, over 26 million people, suffer silently with their intellectual disability (ID). Individuals with intellectual disabilities have impaired intellectual functioning (such as learning, problem solving, judgement) as well as adaptive functioning (activities of daily life such as communication and independent living).
Jai Vakeel Foundation is the oldest and largest non-profit serving children with Intellectual Disabilities and caters to over 3000 individuals annually, across varying age groups and varying levels of intellectual and other associated disabilities such as autism, epilepsy, cerebral palsy and visual or hearing impairment.
Job Role: Speech Therapist
Location: Mumbai
Summary:
To assess, diagnose, treat speech and communication difficulty or disorder and develop, maintain, rehabilitate or augment oral motor or communicative functions through individualized or group therapy.
Responsibilities and Duties
Qualifications and Skills
Post Graduation - Post Graduate-Other
Masters in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology
Ability to work with a multi-disciplinary team
Working with children with intellectual disabilities an added advantage