How do they match: Occupational Therapists

  • 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.

  • Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
  • Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate persons with disabilities because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.

  • Supervise patient care personnel.
  • Train caregivers or other non-medical personnel.