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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
• Vocational Trainer
• Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist
• Rehabilitation Engineer
• Job Trainer
• Industrial Therapist
• Independent Living Specialist
• Assistive Technology Trainer

Tasks for “Assistive Technology Trainer”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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