School Based Occupational Therapist in New York

• Provides treatment for all students enrolled in Children’s Services using goal-directed, developmentally-sequenced activities in the areas of self-help/adaptive, perceptual motor, fine motor coordination and sensory domains, to enhance educational functioning as indicated on the IEP

• Assists in the facilitation and restoration or maintenance of optimum independence for all students

• Recommends adaptive equipment for carry through of goals

• Evaluates student’s functional level; recommends and implements an occupational therapy program in accordance with the student’s IEP mandates and a physician’s referral

• Prepares reports on student’s progress in and reactions to occupational therapy, and maintains records of each student’s work and progress as required by regulation and in keeping with agency standards.

 Assists in conducting in-service training programs as requested by an administrator.

 Positions and transfers students as...