"Physical Therapist Assistant"

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: "Physical Therapist Assistant"

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

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


3) Oral Expression -- The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking 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) Speech Recognition -- The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

6) Static Strength -- The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.


7) Extent Flexibility -- The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.


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


9) 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).

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


11) Multilimb Coordination -- The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.

12) Gross Body Coordination -- The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.


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

14) Trunk Strength -- The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.


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


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

Job Description for "Physical Therapist Assistant" continued here...

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

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