A professional who attends to personal needs of handicapped children while in school to receive specialized academic and physical training. Respnsibilities include:

• Wheels handicapped children to classes, lunchrooms, treatment rooms, and other areas of building.
• Secures children in equipment, such as chairs, slings, or stretchers, and places or hoists children into baths or pools.
• Monitors children using life support equipment to detect indications of malfunctioning of equipment and calls for medical assistance when needed.
• Helps children to walk, board buses, put on prosthetic appliances, eat, dress, bathe, and perform other physical activities as their needs require.