An Occupational Therapist helps people with physical, mental, or environmental
disabilities learn how to perform daily life tasks on their own. In
helping a person regain skills needed for work, self-care, and leisure,
an Occupational Therapist leads patients through activities, such as
physical coordination exercises, paper and pencil exercises or computer
programs. From teaching a blind person to use their sense of touch
to
perform daily activities to showing a mother of a disabled child how
to assist her child at home, an Occupational Therapist helps people
with injuries or disabilities lead independent lives.
