EDUCATION

• College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years

WORK CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Tight deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Large workload
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

EXPERIENCE

• 1 to less than 7 months

• Assess clients’ cognitive, social and emotional barriers to establish adaptation goals
• Assess people’s physical limitations, orientation abilities and mobility to establish client rehabilitation
• Instruct students in reading and writing braille
• Instruct students in lip-reading, finger spelling and sign language
• Instruct in the use of rehabilitative techniques, prosthetic devices and wheelchairs
• Instruct students in formation and development of sound for speech using hearing aids and other devices
• Assist students to develop life skills
• Provide job training and support
• Collaborate with specialists to develop programs for clients’ special needs
• Develop individualized education and intervention plans based on special needs of client to facilitate their readaptation and independence objectives