"Occupational Therapist"

Job Description - Part 4 - Abilities Needed

Part 1
Duties / Tasks Part 2
Activities Part 3
Skills Part 4
Abilities Part 5
Knowledge

Abilities Needed for: "Occupational Therapist"

1) Oral Comprehension -- The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

2) Oral Expression -- The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.


3) Written Expression -- The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.


4) Problem Sensitivity -- The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.


5) Deductive Reasoning -- The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

6) Inductive Reasoning -- The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).


7) Information Ordering -- The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).


8) Speech Recognition -- The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.


9) Speech Clarity -- The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

10) Written Comprehension -- The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.


11) Near Vision -- The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

12) Category Flexibility -- The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.


13) Time Sharing -- The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).

14) Originality -- The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.

Job Description for "Occupational Therapist" continued here...

Part 1
Duties / Tasks Part 2
Activities Part 3
Skills Part 4
Abilities Part 5
Knowledge

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