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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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