How do they match: Occupational Therapists

  • Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant
  • Licensed Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant

  • Assess, plan, and organize 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. Use therapeutic techniques, adapt the individual's environment, teach skills, and modify specific tasks that present barriers to the individual.

  • Conduct research in occupational therapy.
  • Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
  • Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
  • 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.
  • Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.
  • Train caregivers in providing for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.

  • Develop treatment plans that use non-medical therapies.