Rehabilitation Teachers
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Job description
These individuals work with people with adjustment difficulties resulting from disabilities, behavioural disorders, or mental health problems. Their interventions seek to help these people develop their independence, regain their abilities, resume their daily activities, and integrate socially. They assess their physical limitations, orientation abilities, and mobility skills. They also observe their behaviour. They set adaptation goals by taking into account the cognitive, social, and emotional barriers they encounter. They work for:
- Hospitals or rehabilitation centres
- Residential and long-term care centres (CHSLDs)
- Local community service centres (CLSCs)
- University health and social services centres (CIUSSSs)
- Community organizations
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Take part in evaluating the needs and capacities of clients.
- Ensure the education and rehabilitation of clients in institutional settings, according to predetermined programs.
- Help people acquire new practical skills.
- Develop individualized teaching and intervention plans for people with physical, intellectual, visual, or hearing disabilities.
- Teach people with physical disabilities and their families to use special aids or equipment (guide animals, hearing aids, long canes, etc.).
- Organize, coordinate, and lead group workshops.
- Collaborate with specialists to develop new rehabilitation programs.
- Write progress notes and reports.
Training and requirements
Formation
Sometimes required
- Training in psychoeducation or a related field (social work, psychology, etc.) may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Active listening
- Teaching
- Service oriented
- Data collection
- Oral expression
- Social perception
- Result evaluation
- Reading comprehension
- Coordination
- Judgment and decision-making
- Written expression
- Learning strategies
- Critical thought
- Active learning
- Solving complex problems
- Information processing
- Time management
- Persuasion
- Systems evaluation
- Human resource management
- System analysis
Abilities
- Verbal skills
- Oral comprehension
- Written expression
- Written comprehension
- Awareness of issues
- Speech clarity
- Speech recognition
- Near vision
- Information organization
- Idea generation
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Originality
- Selective attention
- Distance vision
- Overall balance of the body
- Overall coordination of the body
- Limb coordination
- Processing flexibility
- Endurance
- Hand-arm stability
- Core strength
- Physical flexibility in extension
- Manual dexterity
- Auditory attention
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Perseverance
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Rigour
- Sense of initiative
- Capacity for synthesis
- Respect others
- Sense of observation
- Pedagogical knowledge
- Open-mindedness
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Create, design
- Assist and advise
- Teach or educate
- Assist or care for people
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Artistic
- People with this profile prefer to express their emotions and thoughts through various art forms. They like to use their imagination.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Appellation d’emploi liée (à traduire)
Instructors of persons with disabilities (CNP 42203)
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
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Last update: January 29, 2026