Instructor Of Persons With Disabilities

Work setting

• General office

Responsibilities

Tasks

• 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
• Develop individualized education and intervention plans based on special needs of client to facilitate their readaptation and independence objectives

Additional information

Security and safety

• Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Attention to detail
• Large workload
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Excellent written communication
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Judgement
• Organized
• Dependability