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.
<ul><li>Complete and maintain necessary records.</li><li>Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.</li><li>Train caregivers in providing for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.</li><li>Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.</li><li>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.</li><li>Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.</li><li>Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.</li><li>Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.</li><li>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.</li><li>Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.</li><li>Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.</li><li>Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.</li><li>Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.</li><li>Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.</li><li>Conduct research in occupational therapy.</li><li>Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.</li></ul>