How do they match: Occupational Therapists

  • Independent Living Specialist
  • Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist

  • 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.

  • Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.

  • Analyze patient data to determine patient needs or treatment goals.
  • Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
  • Develop treatment plans that use non-medical therapies.
  • Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments.