Perform support duties, such as preparing materials, keeping records, maintaining supplies, and scheduling activities.

“Perform support duties, such as preparing materials, keeping records, maintaining supplies, and scheduling activities.” is a core task performed by Speech-Language Pathology Assistants. Among the occupation's 11 rated tasks, workers place it 8th by importance (#4 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Prepare medical equipment or work areas for use. in Handling and Moving Objects
• Maintain health or medical records. in Documenting/Recording Information
• Perform administrative or clerical activities. in Performing Administrative Activities

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T3.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.002% share of AI-use records mapped to this task

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Document clients' progress toward meeting established treatment objectives. · importance 4.9
• Implement treatment plans or protocols as directed by speech-language pathologists. · importance 4.9
• Collect and compile data to document clients' performance or assess program quality. · importance 4.8
• Assist speech-language pathologists in the remediation or development of speech and language skills. · importance 4.7
• Select or prepare speech-language instructional materials. · importance 4.5
• Assist speech-language pathologists in the conduct of client screenings or assessments of language, voice, fluency, articulation, or hearing. · importance 3.8
• Prepare charts, graphs, or other visual displays to communicate clients' performance information. · importance 3.8
• Test or maintain equipment to ensure correct performance. · importance 3.6
• Conduct in-service training sessions, or family and community education programs. · importance 3.4
• Assist speech-language pathologists in the conduct of speech-language research projects. · importance 2.6

See all tasks on the Speech-Language Pathology Assistants page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-17539,
  title  = {Perform support duties, such as preparing materials, keeping records, maintaining supplies, and scheduling activities.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-17539}
}