Occupational Therapy Assistants Career
Occupational Therapy Assisting is a growing medical field that is as important as it is diverse. Occupational Therapy Assistants (OTAs) aid clients in performing specific therapeutic exercises to gain, recover, or improve physical skills required in daily life from chewing food and fastening a button to producing legible handwriting.
An OTA may provide many different types of therapy and may work in a variety of settings. They may seek to restore function to a patient’s entire body, or may specialize in rehabilitating a specific part of the body such as hands. They may work with the elderly, youths, or both. Occupational Therapy Assistants can be found in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, schools, hand therapy centers, doctors offices, and more.