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AI for Occupational Therapists

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Assess, plan, and organize 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. Use therapeutic techniques, adapt the individual's environment, teach skills, and modify specific tasks that present barriers to the individual.

Occupational Therapists · O*NET 29-1122.00 · Job Zone 5 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

9 of 33tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

22 matched to the tools occupational therapists use. Showing 22.

The tools this job actually uses

33 documented for this occupation. Showing 33, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • eClinicalWorks EHR softwarehot
  • Facebookhot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR
  • Casamba Smart
  • Computer drawing software
  • Crick Software Clicker 4
  • Duxbury Braille Translator
  • Email software
  • Fifth Walk BillingTracker
  • FileMaker Pro
  • HMS
  • Language arts educational software
  • Lexrotech LxPediatric
  • Math educational software
  • Mayer-Johnson Boardmaker
  • Music software
  • OpenOffice WRITER
  • Physical education educational software
  • Rehab Documentation Company ReDoc Suite
  • Science educational software
  • Screen magnification software
  • Screen reader software
  • Social studies educational software
  • Special education educational software
  • Speech recognition software
  • Synapse Adaptive Connect Outloud
  • Tactile graphic production kits software
  • Text reader software
  • Text scanning software
  • Text to speech software

What this job involves

18 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 18.

  1. Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
  2. Complete and maintain necessary records.
  3. Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate persons with disabilities because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.
  4. Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
  5. Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
  6. Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
  7. Train caregivers in providing for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.
  8. Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
  9. Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
  10. Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
  11. Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
  12. 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.
  13. Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.
  14. Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
  15. Conduct research in occupational therapy.
  16. Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
  17. Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.
  18. Recommend adaptive equipment to individuals to increase independence in daily living activities.
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