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A professional who diagnoses and treats voice disorders, such as those associated with professional use of voice. Responsibilities include:
* Develops and implements perceptual evaluation procedures and psychophysical methods for voice assessment.
* Collects diagnostic data on individuals, such as output pressures, airflow, chestwall movements, and articular and laryngeal displacement, using scopes and other measuring instruments.
* Analyzes and interprets diagnostic data and consults with otolaryngologist and other professionals to determine method of treatment, such as surgery, vocal modification, or voice therapy.
* Plans and conducts voice therapy sessions, applying auditory, visual, kinematic, and biofeedback techniques.
* Plans and conducts voice hygiene workshops.
* Calibrates equipment.
* May teach voice science to associates and direct research in area of voice.
* May establish procedures and direct operation of laboratory specializing in diagnosing and treating voice disorders and be designated Director, Bio-Communications Laboratory.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who specializes in diagnosis and treatment of speech and language problems, and engages in scientific study of human communication. Responsibilities include:
* Diagnoses and evaluates speech and language skills as related to educational, medical, social, and psychological factors.
* Plans, directs, or conducts habilitative and rehabilitative treatment programs to restore communicative efficiency of individuals with communication problems of organic and nonorganic etiology.
* Provides counseling and guidance and language development therapy to handicapped individuals.
* Reviews individual file to obtain background information prior to evaluation to determine appropriate tests and to ensure that adequate information is available.
* Administers, scores, and interprets specialized hearing and speech tests.
* Develops and implements individualized plans for assigned clients to meet individual needs, interests, and abilities.
* Evaluates and monitors individuals, using audio-visual equipment, such as tape recorders, overhead projectors, filmstrips, and demonstrative materials.
* Reviews treatment plan, and assesses individual performance to modify, change, or write new programs.
* Maintains records as required by law, establishment's policy, and administrative regulations.
* Attends meetings and conferences and participates in other activities to promote professional growth.
* Instructs individuals to monitor their own speech and provides ways to practice new skills.
* May act as consultant to educational, medical, and other professional groups.
* May conduct research to develop diagnostic and remedial techniques.
* May serve as consultant to classroom teachers to incorporate speech and language development activities into daily schedule.
* May teach manual sign language to student incapable of speaking.
* May instruct staff in use of special equipment designed to serve handicapped.
* See audiologist for one who specializes in diagnosis of, and provision of rehabilitative services for, auditory problems.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, administers, and directs operation of health rehabilitation programs, such as physical, occupational, recreational, and speech therapies. Responsibilities include:
* Consults with medical and professional staff of other departments and personnel from associated health care fields to plan and coordinate joint patient and management objectives.
* Conducts staff conferences and plans training programs to maintain proficiency of staff in therapy techniques and use of new methods and equipment to meet patients' needs.
* Allocates personnel on basis of work load, space, and equipment available.
* Analyzes operating costs and prepares department budget.
* Recommends patient fees for therapy based on use of equipment and therapy staff.
* May coordinate research projects to develop new approaches to rehabilitative therapy.
* May serve as rehabilitative therapy consultant to employers, educational institutions, and community organizations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, administers, and directs operation of health rehabilitation programs, such as physical, occupational, recreational, and speech therapies. Responsibilities include:
* Consults with medical and professional staff of other departments and personnel from associated health care fields to plan and coordinate joint patient and management objectives.
* Conducts staff conferences and plans training programs to maintain proficiency of staff in therapy techniques and use of new methods and equipment to meet patients' needs.
* Allocates personnel on basis of work load, space, and equipment available.
* Analyzes operating costs and prepares department budget.
* Recommends patient fees for therapy based on use of equipment and therapy staff.
* May coordinate research projects to develop new approaches to rehabilitative therapy.
* May serve as rehabilitative therapy consultant to employers, educational institutions, and community organizations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, organizes, and conducts occupational therapy program in hospital, institution, or community setting to facilitate development and rehabilitation of mentally, physically, or emotionally handicapped. Responsibilities include:
* Plans program involving activities, such as manual arts and crafts; practice in functional, prevocational, vocational, and homemaking skills, and activities of daily living; and participation in sensorimotor, educational, recreational, and social activities designed to help patients or handicapped persons develop or regain physical or mental functioning or adjust to handicaps.
* Consults with other members of rehabilitation team to select activity program consistent with needs and capabilities of individual and to coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
* Selects constructive activities suited to individual's physical capacity, intelligence level, and interest to upgrade individual to maximum independence, prepare individual for return to employment, assist in restoration of functions, and aid in adjustment to disability.
* Teaches individuals skills and techniques required for participation in activities and evaluates individual's progress.
* Designs and constructs special equipment for individual and suggests adaptation of individual's work-living environment.
* Requisitions supplies and equipment.
* Lays out materials for individual's use and cleans and repairs tools at end of sessions.
* May conduct training programs or participate in training medical and nursing students and other workers in occupational therapy techniques and objectives.
* May plan, direct, and coordinate occupational therapy program and be designated Director, Occupational Therapy.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and administers medically prescribed physical therapy treatment for patients suffering from injuries, or muscle, nerve, joint and bone diseases, to restore function, relieve pain, and prevent disability. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews physician's referral (prescription) and patient's condition and medical records to determine physical therapy treatment required.
* Tests and measures patient's strength, motor development, sensory perception, functional capacity, and respiratory and circulatory efficiency, and records findings to develop or revise treatment programs.
* Plans and prepares written treatment program based on evaluation of patient data.
* Administers manual exercises to improve and maintain function.
* Instructs, motivates, and assists patient to perform various physical activities, such as nonmanual exercises, ambulatory functional activities, daily-living activities, and in use of assistant and supportive devices, such as crutches, canes, and prostheses.
* Administers treatments involving application of physical agents, using equipment, such as hydrotherapy tanks and whirlpool baths, moist packs, ultraviolet and infrared lamps, and ultrasound machines.
* Evaluates effects of treatment at various stages and adjusts treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
* Administers massage, applying knowledge of massage techniques and body physiology.
* Administers traction to relieve pain, using traction equipment.
* Records treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enters information into computer.
* Instructs patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
* Evaluates, fits, and adjusts prosthetic and orthotic devices and recommends modification to orthotist .
* Confers with physician and other practitioners to obtain additional patient information, suggest revisions in treatment program, and integrate physical therapy treatment with other aspects of patient's health care.
* Orients, instructs, and directs work activities of assistants, aides, and students.
* May plan and conduct lectures and training programs on physical therapy and related topics for medical staff, students, and community groups.
* May plan and develop physical therapy research programs and participate in conducting research.
* May write technical articles and reports for publications.
* May teach physical therapy techniques and procedures in educational institutions.
* May limit treatment to specific patient group or disability or specialize in conducting physical therapy research.
* In facilities where assistants are also employed, may primarily administer complex treatment, such as certain types of manual exercises and functional training, and monitor administration of other treatments.
* May plan, direct, and coordinate physical therapy program and be designated Director, Physical Therapy.
* Must comply with state requirement for licensure.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and administers medically prescribed physical therapy treatment for patients suffering from injuries, or muscle, nerve, joint and bone diseases, to restore function, relieve pain, and prevent disability. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews physician's referral (prescription) and patient's condition and medical records to determine physical therapy treatment required.
* Tests and measures patient's strength, motor development, sensory perception, functional capacity, and respiratory and circulatory efficiency, and records findings to develop or revise treatment programs.
* Plans and prepares written treatment program based on evaluation of patient data.
* Administers manual exercises to improve and maintain function.
* Instructs, motivates, and assists patient to perform various physical activities, such as nonmanual exercises, ambulatory functional activities, daily-living activities, and in use of assistant and supportive devices, such as crutches, canes, and prostheses.
* Administers treatments involving application of physical agents, using equipment, such as hydrotherapy tanks and whirlpool baths, moist packs, ultraviolet and infrared lamps, and ultrasound machines.
* Evaluates effects of treatment at various stages and adjusts treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
* Administers massage, applying knowledge of massage techniques and body physiology.
* Administers traction to relieve pain, using traction equipment.
* Records treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enters information into computer.
* Instructs patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
* Evaluates, fits, and adjusts prosthetic and orthotic devices and recommends modification to orthotist .
* Confers with physician and other practitioners to obtain additional patient information, suggest revisions in treatment program, and integrate physical therapy treatment with other aspects of patient's health care.
* Orients, instructs, and directs work activities of assistants, aides, and students.
* May plan and conduct lectures and training programs on physical therapy and related topics for medical staff, students, and community groups.
* May plan and develop physical therapy research programs and participate in conducting research.
* May write technical articles and reports for publications.
* May teach physical therapy techniques and procedures in educational institutions.
* May limit treatment to specific patient group or disability or specialize in conducting physical therapy research.
* In facilities where assistants are also employed, may primarily administer complex treatment, such as certain types of manual exercises and functional training, and monitor administration of other treatments.
* May plan, direct, and coordinate physical therapy program and be designated Director, Physical Therapy.
* Must comply with state requirement for licensure.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops, implements, and coordinates exercise programs and administers medical tests, under physician's supervision, to program participants to promote physical fitness. Responsibilities include:
* Explains program and test procedures to participant.
* Interviews participant to obtain vital statistics and medical history and records information.
* Records heart activity, using electrocardiograph (EKG) machine, while participant undergoes stress test on treadmill, under physician's supervision.
* Measures oxygen consumption and lung functioning, using spirometer.
* Measures amount of fat in body, using such equipment as hydrostatic scale, skinfold calipers, and tape measure, to assess body composition.
* Performs routine laboratory test of blood samples for cholesterol level and glucose tolerance, or interprets test results.
* Schedules other examinations and tests, such as physical examination, chest x ray, and urinalysis.
* Records test data in patient's chart or enters data into computer.
* Writes initial and follow-up exercise prescriptions for participants, following physician's recommendation, specifying equipment, such as treadmill, track, or bike.
* Demonstrates correct use of exercise equipment and exercise routines.
* Conducts individual and group aerobic, strength, and flexibility exercises.
* Observes participants during exercise for signs of stress.
* Teaches behavior modification classes, such as stress management, weight control, and related subjects.
* Orders material and supplies and calibrates equipment.
* May supervise work activities of other staff members.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who instructs patients in prescribed manual arts activities to prevent anatomical and physiological deconditioning, and to assist in maintaining, improving, or developing work skills. Responsibilities include:
* Collaborates with other members of rehabilitation team in planning and organizing work activities consonant with patients' capabilities and disabilities.
* Teaches, by means of actual or simulated work situations, activities, such as woodworking, photography, metalworking, agriculture, electricity, and graphic arts.
* Prepares reports showing development of patient's work tolerance, and emotional and social adjustment to aid medical personnel in evaluating patient's progress and ability to meet physical and mental demands of employment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, organizes, and directs medically approved recreation program for patients in hospitals and other institutions. Responsibilities include:
* Directs and organizes such activities as sports, dramatics, games, and arts and crafts to assist patients to develop interpersonal relationships, to socialize effectively, and to develop confidence needed to participate in group activities.
* Regulates content of program in accordance with patients' capabilities, needs and interests.
* Instructs patients in relaxation techniques, such as deep breathing, concentration, and other activities, to reduce stress and tension.
* Instructs patients in calisthenics, stretching and limbering exercises, and individual and group sports.
* Counsels and encourages patients to develop leisure activities.
* Organizes and coordinates special outings and accompanies patients on outings, such as ball games, sightseeing, or picnics to make patients aware of available recreational resources.
* Prepares progress charts and periodic reports for medical staff and other members of treatment team, reflecting patients' reactions and evidence of progress or regression.
* May supervise and conduct in-service training of other staff members, review their assessments and program goals, and consult with them on selected cases.
* May train groups of volunteers and students in techniques of recreation therapy.
* May serve as consultant to employers, educational institutions, and community health programs.
* May prepare and submit requisition for needed supplies.
Industry:Professional careers
