ABA Therapy Assistant

Position Type:
Student Support Services
Date Posted:
9/12/2023
Location:
District Date: September 12, 2023
From: Office of Superintendent
Subject: Vacancy
Position: ABA Therapy Assistant - District
Pennsauken Public Schools is an urban/suburban Pre-K to 12th grade school district of approximately 5,000 students located in Camden County, New Jersey
Responsibilities:

• Provides intensive individualized therapy services directed toward the development and/or enhancement of skills necessary for emotional, cognitive, behavioral, language, and interpersonal growth of the student.
• Uses appropriate applied behavior teaching, communication, and reinforcement techniques consistently.
• Accurately completes all required documentation and data collection daily.
• Works with an individual student to reinforce learning of material or skills as described in the IEP/treatment plan.
• Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of the individual student, his/her needs, interests, and abilities.
• Helps the student master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Assists with the supervision of the student during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods and field trips.
• Reads to the student as needed, listens to the student read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with the assigned student.
• Assists the student throughout the school environment as necessary.
• Checks notebooks and supervises testing and make up work as assigned by the teacher.
• Helps the student with his/her clothing as needed.
• Assists with lunch, snack and cleanup routines.
• Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about the individual student.
• Supervises, observes and assists the assigned student at all times, including escorting the student during all transitions and lunch or as prescribed in the student's IEP.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about the student as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Participates in inservice training programs as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Sixty semester hours of postsecondary work or; an associate's degree; or successful completion of ParaProfessional Test.
• Appropriate Elementary New Jersey State Certification REQUIRED
• MUST pass NJ Criminal History Review Unit fingerprinting requirement
• New Jersey state residency requirements for public employees in effect

Applications are accepted on-line only. To apply, go to and choose employment.
Deadline for Application: Until Filled
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