Will “Occupational Therapists” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔

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

Also Known As…

• 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 “Occupational Therapists”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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