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Job Description

Assess, plan, organize, and participate in 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.

Job Details

• The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1122.00
• The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 83,730.00
• The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 40.00
• Currently, there are 118,070 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Occupational Therapists”.

Also Known As…

• Occupational Therapists
• Staff Therapist
• Staff Occupational Therapist
• Rehabilitation Supervisor
• Registered Occupational Therapist
• Pediatric Occupational Therapist
• Occupational Therapy Co-Director
• Occupational Therapist (OT)
• Industrial Rehabilitation Consultant
• Early Intervention Occupational Therapist
• Assistive Technology Trainer
• Vocational Trainer
• Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist
• Rehabilitation Engineer
• Job Trainer
• Industrial Therapist
• Independent Living Specialist

Tasks for “Assistive Technology Trainer”

• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.
• Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
• Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.
• Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• Develop and participate in health promotion programs, group activities, or discussions to promote client health, facilitate social adjustment, alleviate stress, and prevent physical or mental disability.
• Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
• Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate those impaired because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.
• Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
• Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.

Related Technology & Tools

• Personal computers
• Single-cut mill saw files
• Video magnifiers
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Voice output communication aids
• Orthotics
• Alternative computer keyboards
• Soldering irons
• Trackpads
• Adaptive cutlery
• Joy sticks
• Manual blood pressure cuffs
• Saws
• Hoists
• Sewing machines
• Splints
• Power sanders
• Scooters
• Electric knives
• Drill presses
• Wobble switches
• Weights
• Pressure care garments
• Braille printers
• Portable scanning pens
• Tongue switches
• Personal digital assistants PDA
• Wheeled walkers
• Adjustable beds
• Looms
• Electric wheelchairs
• Computer switch interfaces
• Video cameras
• Power drills
• Goniometers
• Laptop computers
• Lathes
• Mechanical stethoscopes
• Trackballs
• Resistive exercise bands
• Lift chairs
• Pulleys
• Switch use tools
• Wheelchairs
• Gait and transfer belts
• Exercise balls

• Crick Software Clicker 4
• Lexrotech LxPediatric
• Tactile graphic production kits software
• HMS
• Text to speech software
• Microsoft Office
• Internet browser software
• Word processing software
• Math educational software
• Language arts educational software
• Special education educational software
• BillingTracker
• Spreadsheet software
• Email software
• FileMaker Pro
• Duxbury Braille Translator
• Social studies educational software
• Casamba Smart
• Synapse Adaptive Connect Outloud
• Microsoft Word
• Rehab Documentation Company ReDoc Suite
• Speech recognition software
• Science educational software
• Text reader software
• Music software
• Mayer-Johnson Boardmaker
• Microsoft Excel
• Text scanning software
• Physical education educational software
• OpenOffice WRITER
• Screen reader software
• Computer drawing software
• Screen magnification software