NOC 2021 · 32109 · TEER 2
Other technical occupations in therapy and assessment
Unit group 32109 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Other technical workers in therapy and assessment perform various technical therapy and assessment functions. Some may assist professionals such as audiologists, speech-language pathologists, ophthalmologists, physiotherapists and occupational therapists. They are employed in hospitals, clinics, extended care facilities, rehabilitation centres, community health centres, educational institutions, hearing aid retail stores, in the private practices of the professionals they assist, or they may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- assistive listening device technician
- audiological technician
- audiology technician
- audiometrician
- audiometrist
- certified ophthalmic medical technologist
- certified ophthalmic technician
- communication aide - medical
- communication assistant - medical
- communication disorders assistant
- communication disorders instructor
- communicative disorders assistant
- communicative disorders instructor
- hearing aid assistant
- hearing aid consultant
- hearing aid dealer
- hearing aid practitioner
- hearing aid specialist
- hearing aid technician
- hearing assessment technician
- hearing disorder technician
- hearing instrument dispenser
- hearing instrument practitioner
- hearing instrument practitioner assistant
- hearing instrument specialist
- kinesitherapist
- licensed hearing instrument specialist
- manual arts therapist
- occupational therapy assistant
- occupational therapy technician
- ophthalmic medical technician
- ophthalmic medical technologist
- ophthalmic technician
- ophthalmic technician (except retail)
- ophthalmic technologist
- physical rehabilitation technician
- physical rehabilitation therapist
- physical therapist assistant (PTA)
- physical therapy aide
- physical therapy technician
- physiotherapist assistant (PTA)
- physiotherapy aide
- physiotherapy assistant
- physiotherapy technician
- recreation therapy assistant
- rehabilitation assistant
- speech aide
- speech correctionist - medical
- speech language assistant
- speech technician
- speech therapist aide
- speech therapist assistant
- speech therapy aide
- speech therapy assistant
- speech-language pathology assistant
- therapist assistant
- therapy assistant
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.