Select therapy activities to fit patients' needs and capabilities.

“Select therapy activities to fit patients' needs and capabilities.” is a core task performed by Occupational Therapy Assistants. Among the occupation's 22 rated tasks, workers place it 16th by importance (#7 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.

• Develop patient or client care or treatment plans. in Thinking Creatively

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time 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 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Instruct, or assist in instructing, patients and families in home programs, basic living skills, or the care and use of adaptive equipment. · importance 4.8
• Maintain and promote a positive attitude toward clients and their treatment programs. · importance 4.8
• Implement, or assist occupational therapists with implementing, treatment plans designed to help clients function independently. · importance 4.8
• Report to supervisors, verbally or in writing, on patients' progress, attitudes, and behavior. · importance 4.8
• Monitor patients' performance in therapy activities, providing encouragement. · importance 4.8
• Observe and record patients' progress, attitudes, and behavior and maintain this information in client records. · importance 4.7
• Attend continuing education classes. · importance 4.7
• Aid patients in dressing and grooming themselves. · importance 4.7
• Evaluate the daily living skills or capacities of physically, developmentally, or emotionally disabled clients. · importance 4.6
• Communicate and collaborate with other healthcare professionals involved with the care of a patient. · importance 4.6
• Work under the direction of occupational therapists to plan, implement, or administer educational, vocational, or recreational programs that restore or enhance performance in individuals with functional impairments. · importance 4.6
• Alter treatment programs to obtain better results if treatment is not having the intended effect. · importance 4.5
• Assemble, clean, or maintain equipment or materials for patient use. · importance 4.5
• Design, fabricate, or repair assistive devices or make adaptive changes to equipment or environments. · importance 4.4

See all tasks on the Occupational Therapy 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
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

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  title  = {Select therapy activities to fit patients' needs and capabilities.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-4257}
}