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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

Tasks for “Independent Living Specialist”

• 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.
• Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.
• Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
• Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
• Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
• Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.
• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.
• 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.
• Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
• 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.
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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