How do they match: Occupational Therapists

  • School OT
  • School Occupational Therapist
  • Home Care OT
  • Home Care Occupational Therapist
  • Pediatrics and Acute Care Occupational Therapist

  • Assess, plan, and organize rehabilitative programs that help build or restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, as well as general independence, to persons with disabilities or developmental delays. Use therapeutic techniques, adapt the individual's environment, teach skills, and modify specific tasks that present barriers to the individual.

  • Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
  • Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.

  • Prepare reports summarizing patient diagnostic or care activities.
  • Supervise patient care personnel.