Role & Responsibilities:
- Supporting a child’s development of gross motor skills and promoting participation in meaningful and functional physical activities.
- Evaluating a child’s strengths, as well as needs, in critical areas of gross motor developments
- Designing interventions to promote healthy development of skills needed for success with daily mobility tasks.
- Assessing, supporting, and providing strategies for the development of:
- Functional mobility
- Balance
- Coordination
- Postural stability, and/or
- Strength and endurance.
- Supporting participation in sports and physical activities
Working Conditions
- Work environment: family’s home, community, and/or online
Qualifications
- Graduate degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent
- Registration with College of Physiotherapist of Alberta
- Experience working with children on the autism spectrum and/or with other special needs.
- Current criminal records check and child/youth intervention check
- Alberta driver’s license/vehicle