Evaluate the living skills and capacities of physically, developmentally, or emotionally disabled clients.

“Evaluate the living skills and capacities of physically, developmentally, or emotionally disabled clients.” is a supplemental task performed by Occupational Therapy Aides. Among the occupation's 15 rated tasks, workers place it 13th by importance (#3 most important). About 60% 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.

• Administer diagnostic tests to assess patient health. in Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

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 0.00. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Encourage patients and attend to their physical needs to facilitate the attainment of therapeutic goals. · importance 4.5
• Report to supervisors or therapists, verbally or in writing, on patients' progress, attitudes, attendance, and accomplishments. · importance 4.5
• Observe patients' attendance, progress, attitudes, and accomplishments and record and maintain information in client records. · importance 4.3
• Prepare and maintain work area, materials, and equipment and maintain inventory of treatment and educational supplies. · importance 4.3
• Transport patients to and from the occupational therapy work area. · importance 4.1
• Instruct patients and families in work, social, and living skills, the care and use of adaptive equipment, and other skills to facilitate home and work adjustment to disability. · importance 4.1
• Assist occupational therapists in planning, implementing, and administering therapy programs to restore, reinforce, and enhance performance, using selected activities and special equipment. · importance 4.1
• Demonstrate therapy techniques, such as manual and creative arts and games. · importance 4.0
• Manage intradepartmental infection control and equipment security. · importance 4.0
• Perform clerical, administrative, and secretarial duties, such as answering phones, restocking and ordering supplies, filling out paperwork, and scheduling appointments. · importance 4.0
• Supervise patients in choosing and completing work assignments or arts and crafts projects. · importance 3.8
• Adjust and repair assistive devices and make adaptive changes to other equipment and to environments. · importance 3.5
• Accompany patients on outings, providing transportation when necessary. · importance 3.3
• Assist educational specialists or clinical psychologists in administering situational or diagnostic tests to measure client's abilities or progress. · importance 3.1

See all tasks on the Occupational Therapy Aides 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.

@misc{singulariki-task-9402,
  title  = {Evaluate the living skills and capacities of physically, developmentally, or emotionally disabled clients.},
  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-9402}
}