Speech Language Pathologist
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Job Description
The primary responsibilities of the Speech Language Pathologist is to provide skilled speech-language evaluation and treatment to infants, children, and adolescents to improve communication, speech, language, feeding, and swallowing skills. The therapist will collaborate with families, caregivers, and interdisciplinary teams to develop individualized treatment plans that support each child’s communication and functional development.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Evaluate and treat children from birth to age 21 for speech, language, oral motor, feeding, voice, fluency, articulation, or social communication disorders to achieve highest level of functioning and prevent regression.
Work closely with patients caregivers and the interdisciplinary team to develop and implement individualized treatment plans.
Accurately document treatment sessions as well as progress or evaluation reports in detail.
Maintains professional/technical competencies and proficiencies for job responsibilities and upholds federal/state licensure and ethical expectations.
Requirements
Education/Licenses:?
Masters degree in Speech Language Pathology and hold an applicable and current, unrestricted license to practice (or in the process of obtaining license). New Grads welcome!
Experience & Skills
Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
Physical Needs
- Ability to travel to other APT locations as needed
- Ability to move freely in office or any other areas where treatment is provided (ex. Contract site or home visits)
- Ability to lift up to 15 pounds
- Ability to sit for brief to extended periods of time and work on computer
Key Responsibilities
Evaluate and treat children from birth through age 21 for speech, language, oral motor, feeding, voice, fluency, articulation, and social communication needs. Collaborate with families, caregivers, and interdisciplinary teams to create individualized treatment plans and document evaluations, treatment sessions, and progress.
Key Skills
Speech-Language Pathologist Career Context
In Tennessee, the Speech-Language Pathology weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$92k (52 salary observations; 311 listings), vs ~$98k nationally (4,959 salary observations; 19,375 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 50 active Speech-Language Pathology listings this role was benchmarked against, 10% are remote, 52% have no call, 52% require no weekends.
Speech-Language Pathology pay on WeekdayDoc is up 4.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Tennessee is 91.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 58.6% of Tennessee clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Location & Logistics
Tennessee has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.
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