How do they match: Occupational Therapists

  • Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist
  • Vocational Trainer
  • Rehabilitation Engineer
  • Rehabilitation Occupational Therapist
  • Industrial Rehabilitation Consultant

  • 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 those impaired because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.
  • Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.