1. Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. PhD Student of Occupational Therapy, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Scienc...

Jeffrey L. Crabtree, OTD, OT, FAOTA, is Director, Community Mobility and Participation in Society (COMPASS) Lab and Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis. Many in our profession would agree that the question of whether our profession should move to the entry-level doctoral degree is still a...

Daniel Brown, JD, is Senior State Policy Analyst, American Occupational Therapy Association, 4720 Montgomery Lane, Bethesda, MD 20814; dbrown@aota. org Brown, D. (2014). Health Policy Perspectives—Habilitative services: An essential health benefit and an opportunity for occupational therapy practitioners and consumers. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68, 130–138. http:// dx.doi.org/10...

The purpose of this paper is to describe occupational therapy’s contribution in the areas of health promotion and prevention and is intended for internal and external audiences. The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) supports and promotes involvement of occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants in the development and provision of health promotion and disease or d...

Background: The occupation of sleep is frequently under-addressed by occupational therapists with their clients. This may be in part because a lack general training on addressing this domain or education about the basics sleep. has been Occupational Therapy Practice Framework since 2008. However, it remains unclear how to address therapy practice. Therefore, purpose case series describe practic...

Occupational therapy assistant (OTA) supervision is an expected skill and role of entry-level occupational therapists (OTRs). The purpose this convergent mixed-methods study to provide students (OTSs) with interactive collaborative educational opportunity, using OTA-perspective panel discussion improve the learning effective delineation. Participants consisted OTSs (n = 11) in a graduate master...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of special education directors on the current role of occupational therapy in high school transition programs for adolescent students with disabilities. Additionally, barriers to providing occupational therapy services and perceptions about new occupational therapy services were examined. METHOD A mailed questionnaire was admi...

That which constitutes competence in an occupational therapy entrepreneur is not well delineated, even though the role of entrepreneur requires that such a person possess a particular set of knowledge and skills in order to be competent. The question of competence in an occupational therapy entrepreneur is increasingly important because the number of practitioners assuming this role has grown i...

question, “What is occupational therapy?” Imagine a world in which everyone knows about occupational therapy and values what we do. Since becoming active as a volunteer in the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), I am often asked, “What is AOTA doing about this?” The answer: Plenty. However, AOTA cannot do “this” alone. Promoting occupational therapy takes a partnership—a collabora...