Legislation
Year The Rehabilitation Act was passed
1973
What are Performance Areas?
Occupations
Most common diagnosis seen by OTs in 1977
Stroke
Publication that combined OT Week and OT Practice in 1995
OT Practice
First non-therapist to lead AOTA
Leo Fanning
Medical coverage that covered hospital inpatient occupational therapy
Medicare
What are Performance Contexts?
Address the environment
Year that definition of OT was adopted and published
1972
What the Occupational Therapy Journal of Research encouraged
Dialogue between authors of published papers and discussants
Became standard equipment in OT services during 1980s
Apple Computer
3 federal legislations that increased reimbursement for occupational therapy practitioners
Medicare, Medicaid, and the Education of All Handicapped Act
What are Performance Components?
Aspects of the person
Percent growth of OT workforce between 1966 and 1978
230%
Name one of the revisions to the role delineation study made by the Professional and Technical Role Analysis project
Current roles and functions of entry-level registered occupational therapists and certified OT assistants
Incorporate major changes occurring in health care delivery system
Address need for knowledge, skills,attitudes, and abilities to be specified for functions identified within the Role Delineation Study
Introduced the term purposeful activity
Edith Bowman
Modern day name for the Women’s Medical Specialist Corps
Army Medical Specialist Corp
Name one state that helped revise the first edition of the Uniform Terminology document
California, Maryland, Washington
Name 3 of 10 changes in the 1980s that affected how OTs practiced
Age of the population, Consumer awareness, Technology, Business influence, Environmental and economic disasters and dislocation, Shift in personal values and lifestyles, Hospitals, Long-term care, Psychiatric mental health facilities, Hospice
Year OT Newspaper began publication
1973
Created to operate battery operated toys or robotic arms
Electric Switches
Year reconstruction aides became considered active military personnel in the armed forces and started receiving benefits
1981
Special Interest Sections that were approved in 1990s
Education, Technology, Home and Community Health, and School Systems
Why treatment strayed from arts and crafts in 1951
It was not taken seriously as a treatment
Document adopted in 1979 that became a forerunner for the OTPF
Uniform Terminology Document
Name one person who served as president of the association during the 1980s
Mae Hightower-Vandamm, Carolyn Baum, Robert Bing, OR Elnora Gilfoyle