How do they match: Occupational Therapy Assistants

  • Report to supervisors, verbally or in writing, on patients' progress, attitudes, and behavior.
  • Assemble, clean, or maintain equipment or materials for patient use.
  • Assist educational specialists or clinical psychologists in administering situational or diagnostic tests to measure client's abilities or progress.
  • Attend continuing education classes.
  • Design, fabricate, or repair assistive devices or make adaptive changes to equipment or environments.
  • Order any needed educational or treatment supplies.
  • Work under the direction of occupational therapists to plan, implement, or administer educational, vocational, or recreational programs that restore or enhance performance in individuals with functional impairments.

  • Attend educational events to update medical knowledge.
  • Prepare medical reports or documents.