Founders
This founder has an AOTA award named after them and created the first school of Occupational Therapy.
Who is Eleanor Clark Slagle?
The National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy become the American Occupational Therapy Association in this year
What is 1921?
This act influences availability to people with disabilities to educations and employment
What is the AMERICAN DISABILITIES ACT?
Developed the theory of sensory integration
Who is A. Jean Ayres?
This movement, started by an Episcopal minister, provided community-based treatment for indigent persons with tuberculosis
What is Emmanuelism?
This founder was influenced by personal experience with disease and paralysis that led him to found the Consolation House.
Who is George Edward Barton?
The first reconstruction aide to arrive in France during WWI
Who is Linda Hitchcock?
This person signed the 1965 Medicare and Medicaid legislation with other members of congress
Who is PRESIDENT LYNDON B JOHNSON?
The AOTA president who initiated the strategic planning to develop the Centennial Vision of AOTA to further the OT practice through practice, education, and research
Who is M. Charlotte Baum?
The nickname given to the first reconstruction aides
What are the Bluebirds?
In 1922, this founder authored the Philosophy of Occupational Therapy?
Who is Adolf Meyer?
Occupational Therapy Assistants begin assisting Occupational Therapists in this year
What is 1958?
This act distributes education to all children regardless of any handicap conditions
What is THE EDUCATION FOR ALL HANDICAP CHILDREN ACT of 1975?
Emphasized the use of occupation as a means for emotional expression
Who is Gail Fidler?
This intervention from 1905, derived from arts and crafts activities, worked to restore physical and mental health
What is moral treatment?
This physician’s approach incorporated arts and crafts to treat patients dealing with nervous system disorders and was labeled the “work cure” approach.
Who is Herbert J. Hall?
The year ACOTE took responsibility for overseeing Occupational Therapy education programs
What is 1994?
This law was enacted largely to control Medicare’s sub-acute care cost
What is THE BALANCED BUDGET ACT of 1997?
A student of Mary Reilly, this Occupational Therapist built on Reilly’s theory that humans are occupational beings thus developing the Model of Human Occupation
Who was Gary Kielhofner?
This is the most evidence-based model of practice in OT
What is the Model of Human Occupation?
Ellen Clark Slagle is considered the mother of OT while his founder is considered the father of OT.
Who is Dr. William Rush Dunton, Jr?
The year the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework 1st edition was published
What id 2008?
1964
When was the CIVIL RIGHTS ACT WAS PASSED?
Asserted the need for OTs to take steps toward professionalism, produce research, and focus on the unique assets of the profession
Who is Dr. Elizabeth Yerxa?
This movement of 1942 through 1960 was marked by the growth in health care due to VA, polio epidemic, and new medical procedures and antibiotics
What is the Rehabilitation Movement?