Occupational Therapy Aides
Healthcare SupportAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Occupational Therapy Aides with an AI automation risk score of 25%. Analysis includes 15 core tasks.
Safer Career Paths
Occupational Therapy Assistants
16% AI Risk
Human-centered work and decision ownership.
Physical Therapist Assistants
4% AI Risk
Human-centered work and decision ownership.
Psychiatric Technicians
21% AI Risk
Human-centered work and decision ownership.
Key Tasks
Assist educational specialists or clinical psychologists in administering situational or diagnostic tests to measure client's abilities or progress.
Encourage patients and attend to their physical needs to facilitate the attainment of therapeutic goals.
Adjust and repair assistive devices and make adaptive changes to other equipment and to environments.
Report to supervisors or therapists
Observe patients' attendance
Prepare and maintain work area
Transport patients to and from the occupational therapy work area.
Instruct patients and families in work
Upskilling Courses
Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data