QUALIFICATIONS: Licensed Occupational Therapist



REPORTS TO: Director of Special Education



JOB GOAL: To utilize a medically-based training to evaluate and apply purposeful, goal-directed, developmentally sequenced activities to enhance the student’s potential for learning.





PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:




+ Evaluate new students that have been referred to occupational therapy.

+ Use standardized tests, and customized measures and/or observations to evaluate the student in areas of cognitive-perceptual motor skills, motor coordination, physco-social development, self-care, muscle strength and range of motion, postural reflexes, needs for adaptive devices and vocational skills.

+ Make home visits for the purpose of evaluating the child within his or her home environment.

+ Evaluate treatment effectiveness by observation, testing, communication with f...