A professional who teaches elementary and secondary school subjects in schools, institutions, or other specialized facilities to students with neurological problems in learning. Responsibilities include:

• Plans curriculum and prepares lessons and other instructional materials to meet individual need of students, considering state and school requirements, physical, emotional, and educational levels of development.
• Confers with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social worker, and others to develop individual educational program for student.
• Instructs students in all academic subjects.
• Creates learning materials geared to each student's ability and interest.
• Instructs students, using special educational strategies and techniques, to improve sensory-motor and perceptual-motor development, perception, memory, language, cognition, and social and emotional development.
• Works with students to increase motivation, provide consistent reinforcement to learning, continuous assessment of level of functioning, and continuous feedback to student for all learning activities.
• Works with parents to accept and develop skills in dealing with student's learning impairment.
• May work as consultant, teach in self-contained classroom, or teach in resource room.
• May be required to hold certification from state.