Special Education Jobs at The Talk School
This is not like other places you've worked.
If you became a therapist or an educator to actually change children’s lives, and you have spent years being stretched too thin to do it, read on. At The Talk School you work inside a small, integrated team, with the time and support to do your best work, at a school that invests in its people as seriously as it invests in its students.
Working at a Special Education School
A school that invests in its people.
In a field where clinicians are conditioned to move on, because too many places treat them poorly, our team stays for years. They stay because caseloads are humane, because speech, occupational therapy, and teaching happen side by side instead of in silos, and because the culture asks everyone to be all in for the students. Talk provides extensive on-site training in multisensory language and literacy, ongoing outside professional development, and tuition reimbursement toward college courses. If you want to keep growing while you do the work you trained for, this is a rare place to do it.
Speech, OT, and Special Education Roles
The roles that make Talk work
Speech-Language Pathologists
Lead the language and communication work at the center of everything we do, right in the classroom.
Occupational Therapists
Help children regulate, move, and engage, with therapy integrated through the whole day.
Special Education
Teachers
Teach our structured, multisensory curriculum and hold the day together for a small class capped at 8 students.
1:1 Teaching Aides
The backbone of our classrooms. Aides make individualized support possible.
What to Know
What we look for in Talk faculty
Presume Competence
You start from what a child can do, and believe every learner has something to say.
Collaborate
You do your best work shoulder to shoulder with teachers and therapists, not alone.
An all-in mentality
You are ready to roll up your sleeves and work directly with students whenever they need you.
Lifelong Learner
You want to keep growing, and you will, through Talk’s ongoing training in multisensory methods.
Resourceful and Creative
You find new ways in when the first one does not work, and you meet each child where they are.
Current Special Education Job Openings
The Talk School open positions
Apply with a cover letter, resume, and three professional references. Be ready to provide your Pennsylvania clearances (Act 34 criminal record, Act 151 child abuse, and Act 114 FBI), a recent TB test or chest x-ray, and a physical.
There are currently no open positions
While there are currently no open positions, we encourage you to send your resumes to Kristen at kristen.tabun@talkinc.org incase a position right for you opens up.
Talk School does not discriminate against any employee, applicant, student, or client on the basis of race, color, religion or creed, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, political belief, marital status, or sexual orientation. Talk makes diligent efforts to comply with all Equal Employment Opportunity and Americans with Disabilities Act laws and regulations in all areas, including but not limited to hiring, compensation, benefits, and promotion, as well as admission of students and clients, scholarship awards, and the like.
Speech and OT Internships and Field Placements
Talk hosts interns, student teachers, and field placements in speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, and special education. It is how we help train the next generation of specialists, and how many of our best people first found us. If you are a student looking for a placement that will actually teach you something, we would love to hear from you. Students in speech, OT, and special education programs can reach out about internships and field placements.
