Do School Based Therapists Work Over the Summer?

Do school based therapists work over the summer?

Many times school based therapists are asked if they work over the summer.  For the past few months, the Your Therapy Source survey asked this question.  One of the reasons was to determine a general idea of whether school based occupational or physical therapists work over the summer.  Another reason was to find out if they work in schools or where else they may work over the summer.  When you are done reading please answer the current survey.

The results have been tallied after 258 responses to the question do school based therapists work over the summer:

Question #1:  What is your job title?

Question #2- Do you work over the summer at your school or elsewhere?

Question #3 – If yes and you work at your school, approximately what percentage of your caseload receives therapy for 12 months?

Question #4: If yes, but you work somewhere else over the summer, what do you do? (ie geriatrics, private pay, home care, waitress, tutoring etc.)

Responses:

Below are the short answers that survey participants provided.  It is amazing the variety and skill set that everyone has.  It is very impressive!

geriatrics (5)

private pay (2)

sensory gym (2)

Cover another small school district as well

Private practice Pediatric PT clinic

Pedi outpatient

SNF

Summer residential camp and day camps

Swing bed & skilled nursing home

I work at my primary school setting

Geriatric LTC and home services

My job includes early intervention as well as school based related services. Our EI program is year round.

work PRN home care

PRN at local hospital

OT for a home care agency and docent at local small museum

Private practice Peds

Acute care hospital

acute care in a hospital

Retail, small business, shoes

private clinic

Pre-school, PCA, Housekeeping, Drive farm trucks

Private pediatric clinic

Church Childcare

Outpatient pediatric clinic

geriatrics and some outpatient peds

Developmental centers

Hippotherapy

Still in Early intervention as the center based program is year round.

I work for my school district and also cover for per diem at a skilled nursing facility

State funded Early Intervention home visits)

ECI

pediatric therapy clinic and private pay

work at a charter school/outpatient psych program for kids with mental illness and autism

Summer groups (pediatric clinic), home health pediatric

private practice pediatrics

Early intervention Peds

outpatient psych

B-3 Services; PRN work in LTC, Hosp. Inatient/Outpatient, or Home Health

Special Care Nursery (Level 1B)

extended school year for the cooperative (pediatrics)

0-3 Early Intervention

I also do peds home care in the summer

rehab

adult day health center

I work for a BOCES Extended School Year program. School age children who require an educational program to prevent regression.

pediatric outpatient in a clinic

outpatient pediatric therapy clinic; early intervention

Early Intervention (birth to 3 y/o)

I work in our office, creating programs, and inservices and at any of the schools as needed.

I also work pediatric out patients

Summer Program for regular ed children doing movement activities to supplement academic programs.

I work a small amount out my school in the summer and primarily work in a rural hospital/nursing home/outpatient clinic.

teach summer school and private tutoring

Charity in Cameroon Africa teaching about Sensory and motor play for a new school ministry for Autistic kids.

Home health

acute care in hospital

home care

clinic and home health

early intervention

Work in different schools and Infant and Toddlers.

Basic home care

Private clinic

I worked summer camp positions in arts and crafts until recently

Early Intervention & Private cases

pediatric acute care, consultation for children’s services

I co-coordinate an intensive needs summer program at our school. We have lots of fun. I have been doing this every summer for 7 years now.

On-call at skilled nursing facility

Geriatrics

Home health

PRN skilled nursing

Also work at an additional school that is not my usual caseload for six weeks

Quality time with my children

PRN SNF

Diagnostics for early childhood

Other therapists can sub positions so IEP’s are met.

Work in my current school district.

Summer program runs for only 4 weeks.

also work in a short term rehab/LTC facilicy

respite care in the summer, PRN at a SNF 2 hours from my home, and worked at a frozen yogurt place.

Home Health

hospital and inpatient rehab

geriatrics – skilled nursing facilities

early intervention (0-3 years) for different agency

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