Noor Lyra Tutoring | St. Cloud, FL
$55 per hour | Independent contractor | Flexible, part-time, in-home
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
Noor Lyra Tutoring is seeking a skilled, thoughtful educator to support a young learner’s early-elementary academic development. This opportunity requires experience supporting children with childhood apraxia of speech or comparable motor-speech and communication needs.
We are looking for an educator who can recognize a child’s understanding even when spoken responses are difficult—and adapt instruction so the child can participate, build confidence, and demonstrate learning.
Noor intentionally matches educators to students. This assignment calls for strong academic teaching ability, careful observation, patience, and the judgment to adjust instruction to a learner’s communication profile. Our educators bring warmth and high professional standards to every session.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide personalized, in-home early-learning and early-elementary instruction that builds foundational academic skills, engagement, and confidence.
- Adapt lessons to the learner’s strengths, interests, academic needs, and communication profile.
- Use visual supports, hands-on materials, modeling, thoughtful pacing, repetition, and multiple ways to respond, including pointing, selecting, or demonstrating.
- Allow adequate response time and distinguish difficulty expressing an answer from difficulty understanding a concept.
- Build a calm, encouraging learning environment with clear expectations and manageable challenges.
- Track academic goals and document session activities, progress, barriers, and next steps.
- Communicate clearly with the family and Noor Lyra Tutoring, following through consistently on agreed plans.
- Incorporate appropriate communication-friendly learning approaches and family-provided SLP recommendations within the academic educator’s scope.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Documented direct professional or instructional experience working with children with significant communication needs, with strong preference given to candidates with specific childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) or motor-speech experience. General tutoring experience or comfort with special needs alone is not sufficient.
- Strong ability to teach early-learning and foundational academic skills through clear, developmentally appropriate instruction.
- A calm, patient, emotionally intelligent teaching style.
- Ability to adapt instruction and response formats when verbal expression is difficult.
- Strong observation, organization, documentation, and family communication skills.
- Dependability, professional judgment, respect for family privacy, and consistent follow-through.
- Ability to travel to in-home sessions in St. Cloud, FL.
STRONGLY PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Florida-licensed Speech-Language Pathologist, appropriately credentialed Speech-Language Pathology Assistant working within applicable supervision requirements, ESE/special-education educator, or early-childhood professional with substantial direct experience supporting children with childhood apraxia of speech or comparable motor-speech/communication needs. An SLP license is strongly preferred, not required.
- Demonstrated pediatric CAS/motor-speech experience combined with strong early-academic teaching ability. A license or credential alone does not replace direct relevant experience.
- Experience using visual supports or a learner’s established communication system during academic instruction.
- Experience collaborating with families and other professionals while maintaining clear role boundaries.
- Experience setting individualized academic goals and documenting measurable progress.
ROLE SCOPE
This is an academic educator and tutoring role, not a speech-language pathology position. The assignment does not include diagnosing communication disorders, treating childhood apraxia of speech, or providing speech therapy.
The educator may use communication-friendly educational supports and reinforce appropriate family-provided SLP recommendations during academic learning. Any clinical services would require appropriate independent licensure and a separate engagement outside this tutoring assignment.
COMPENSATION AND SCHEDULE
- Compensation: $55 per hour.
- Engagement: Independent contractor.
- Schedule: Flexible, part-time hours arranged around the student’s needs and the educator’s availability.
- Location: In-home sessions in St. Cloud, FL.
- Opportunity: Premium in-home educational work with a thoughtfully matched student and meaningful opportunities to support individualized progress.
THE NOOR LYRA APPROACH
Our work begins with understanding first: learning how a child thinks, communicates, and engages before deciding how to teach.
We expect our educators to practice:
- Personalized instruction: Adapt lessons to the learner and use observation to guide next steps.
- Emotional intelligence: Respond to frustration or communication difficulty with patience, respect, and sound judgment.
- Calm accountability: Maintain clear expectations while providing the support a child needs to participate.
- Parent partnership: Listen carefully, communicate thoughtfully, and follow through.
- Measurable progress: Set meaningful academic goals, document growth, and adjust instruction when needed.
- Professional excellence: Arrive prepared, protect confidentiality, and uphold the trust families place in Noor.
HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your résumé and answer the screening questions. Highlight relevant academic teaching experience and direct experience supporting children with motor-speech or significant communication needs. Keep examples anonymous and avoid sharing identifying information about children or families.
Pay: $55.00 per hour
Benefits:
Application Question(s):
- How many years of direct experience do you have working with children who have childhood apraxia of speech, motor-speech disorders, significant speech-language needs, or comparable communication challenges? Choose one: None; Less than 1 year; 1–2 years; 3–5 years; 5+ years.
- Required written response: Please briefly describe your direct experience supporting a child with childhood apraxia of speech or significant communication needs. What was your role, and what instructional accommodations or strategies did you use? Please keep examples anonymous.
- Which best describes your professional background? Choose one: Certified teacher; Special education teacher / ESE educator; Speech-language pathologist or SLP-related professional; Speech-language pathology assistant / related support role; Early childhood educator; Behavior / developmental / pediatric education professional; Academic tutor with substantial special-needs experience; Other (please describe).
- Are you comfortable providing early-elementary academic instruction, including foundational mathematics, to a child whose verbal expression may be limited or effortful? Answer Yes or No.
- Which supports have you personally used in instruction? List all that apply: Visual supports; Modeling / demonstration; Reduced verbal-demand tasks; Alternative response methods; Repetition with variation; Task breakdown / task analysis; Predictable routines; Extended response time; AAC or communication supports; Collaboration with SLP recommendations; None of the above.
- This is an in-home independent-contractor educator role in St. Cloud, FL 34771 at $55/hour. Are you comfortable with that compensation structure and reliable local travel? Answer Yes or No.
- Noor Lyra Tutoring requires educators to document student progress, communicate professionally with families, adapt instruction based on student response, and follow Noor’s instructional standards. Are you comfortable working within a structured, high-accountability system rather than independently choosing your own process? Answer Yes or No.
- Do you have direct professional or instructional experience working with children who have significant speech-language, motor-speech, developmental, or communication needs? Answer Yes or No. Direct relevant experience is required for this role.
Work Location: In person
