| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Occupational Therapist |
- Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
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- Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
- Develop and participate in health promotion programs, group activities, or discussions to promote client health, facilitate social adjustment, alleviate stress, and prevent physical or mental disability.
- Train clients to read or write Braille.
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| Occupational Therapist Aide |
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
- Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
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- Prepare and maintain work area, materials, and equipment and maintain inventory of treatment and educational supplies.
- Adjust and repair assistive devices and make adaptive changes to other equipment and to environments.
- Report to supervisors or therapists, verbally or in writing, on patients' progress, attitudes, attendance, and accomplishments.
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| Occupational Therapist Assistant |
- Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
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- Demonstrate therapy techniques such as manual and creative arts, or games.
- Implement, or assist occupational therapists with implementing, treatment plans designed to help clients function independently.
- Aid patients in dressing and grooming themselves.
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