Occupational Therapists
Also called:
Occupational Therapist (OT), Registered Occupational Therapist, Staff Therapist, Assistive Technology Trainer
What they do:
Assess, plan, organize, and participate in 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.
On the job, you would:
- 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.
- Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental and physical capabilities.
Health
- therapy and counseling
- medicine and dentistry
Math and Science
- psychology
- sociology and anthropology
Education and Training
- teaching and course design
Business
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Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
Social
- looking for ways to help people
- understanding people's reactions
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
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Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
Attention
- pay attention to something without being distracted
- do two or more things at the same time
Visual Understanding
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People interested in this work like activities that include
helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Concern for Others
- Integrity
- Dependability
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Self Control
- Cooperation
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You might use software like this on the job:
Computer based training software
- Language arts educational software
- Text to speech software
Medical software
- Lexrotech LxPediatric
- Rehab Documentation Company ReDoc Suite
Word processing software
- Crick Software Clicker 4
- OpenOffice WRITER
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master's degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
$73,820
per year, on average
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