MJ CARE INC
Physical Therapist- Schools (Healthcare)
SUMMARY OF POSITION
Organizes, develops and implements a school-based physical therapy program by providing services to children with exceptional educational needs and to educational staff when children require physical therapy to benefit from special education as regulated by federal, state and local guidelines. Work to improve, develop, restore or maintain a childs motor function in the educational environments. School physical therapy focuses on a child's ability to move as independently as possible in the school environment. The school physical therapist evaluates the child's ability to move throughout the school and to participate in classroom activities. Focus of these services may include, but are not limited to facilitation of developmental motor skills, postural awareness, ambulation and gait training, sensorimotor processing, cardiovascular function, wheelchair mobility, adaptation or modification of equipment and the environment, recommendation and monitoring of orthoses and other assistive devices, prevention of initial or additional deformity or disability through early intervention and programming and transportation needs of children. Consultation with educational and community personnel is also an essential component of the physical therapists roles/responsibilities. Consistent with state and federal law, school physical therapists are related service personnel.
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QUALIFICATIONS
Education
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