Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that help restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, as well as general independence, to disabled persons.

Other names for Occupational Therapists: Assistive Technology Trainer, Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant, Independent Living Specialist, Industrial Rehabilitation Consultant, Industrial Therapist, Job Trainer, Licensed Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA/L), Occupational Therapist (OT), Registered Occupational Therapist, Rehabilitation Engineer, Staff Therapist, Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist, Vocational Trainer,

• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• 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.
• 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.
• Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs and coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• 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.
• Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students and nurses and other medical staff.
• Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work and school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
• Advise on health risks in the workplace and on health-related transition to retirement.
• Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• Provide patients with assistance in locating and holding jobs.

• Cutlery or utensils for the physically challenged
• Patient care beds or accessories for general use
• Keyboards
• Braille devices for the physically challenged
• Adaptive communication switches for the physically challenged
• Workshop presses
• Power drills
• Domestic electric knives
• Wheelchairs
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Therapeutic balls or accessories
• Files
• Gait belts for rehabilitation or therapy
• Goniometers
• Patient ceiling hoists
• Game pads or joy sticks
• Notebook computers
• Lathes
• Patient lifts or accessories
• Hand looms
• Mercury blood pressure units
• Orthotics or foot care products
• Personal computers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Scanners
• Vascular or compression apparel or supports
• Pulleys or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy
• Power sanders
• Saws
• Patient scooters
• Domestic sewing machines
• Soldering irons or guns
• Orthopedic splint systems
• Mechanical stethoscopes or accessories
• Adaptive communication switches for the physically challenged
• Resistive exercise bands or putty or tubing or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy
• Headpointers or mouthsticks for the physically challenged
• Computer mouse or trackballs
• Touch pads
• Hand held camcorders or video cameras
• Visual presenters
• Voice synthesizers for the physically challenged
• Weights or sets or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy
• Wheelchairs
• Walkers or rollators
• Adaptive communication switches for the physically challenged

Accounting software

Music or sound editing software

Pattern design software

Graphics or photo imaging software

Word processing software

Spreadsheet software

Optical character reader OCR or scanning software

Data base user interface and query software

Computer based training software

Medical software

Internet browser software

Device drivers or system software

Voice recognition software

Electronic mail software