Professional Organizations
Each OT student at MDCHS has an opportunity to serve in this student organization promoting OT.
What is the Student Occupational Therapy Association (SOTA)?
An OTR is required to complete a progress note after this many sessions with a client.
What is 10?
This area of occupation includes life skills such as paying bills, cooking a meal, or washing laundry.
What are instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs)?
This event expanded occupational therapy practice into pediatrics.
What is the polio epidemic?
This government insurance covers services for individuals age 65 and older or those with a qualifying condition such as end stage renal disease.
What is Medicare?
As an OT with a specific practice interest, you can join this, a group of practitioners with common interests.
What is a Special Interest Section (SIS)?
Peer supervision and mentorship are this type of supervision.
What is informal supervision?
This area of the OT Practice Framework outlines the delivery steps within occupational therapy, including the evaluation, intervention, and discharge.
What is the process?
In this year occupational therapy was first founded as the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy.
What is 1917?
This government insurance covers children in families who are unable to afford health insurance.
What is Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)?
This national organization in the US holds an annual conference each spring.
What is the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)?
According to CMS, this type of supervision requires the supervisor to be in the same room as the supervisee.
What is personal or line-of-sight supervision?
Residents in Asheville, NC experienced this occupational justice issue following Hurricane Helene in 2024 when county-wide devastation halted meaningful occupation.
What is occupational disruption?
This term was used prior to "occupational therapists," referring to civilian women who taught functional and vocational skills to wounded soldiers in WWI.
What are reconstruction aides?
This branch of Medicare covers inpatient stays in the acute care hospital, inpatient rehab, and SNF.
This organization supports political candidates who advocate on behalf of the OT profession.
What is the American Occupational Therapy Political Action Committee (AOTPAC)?
What is indirect supervision?
Using bathing as an intervention to work toward the goal of bathing is an example of using occupations as this.
What is a means and an end?
This founder, known as as the Mother of Occupational Therapy, is honored with a lecture named after her at each annual conference.
Who is Eleanor Clarke Slagle?
This legislation mandates that children have access to free and appropriate public education.
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
This OT national honor society has a chapter at MDCHS.
What is Pi Theta Epsilon (PTE)?
OTRs should be familiar with this document governing OT practice within the state where they practice.
What is the state regulatory board?
Occupational science is known as this type of science, focusing on transferring what is learned in scientific exploration to practical application in the field of OT.
What is a translational science?
Before the profession of OT was founded, these community organizations used occupation to teach practical and daily living skills to low income individuals in urban areas.
What are settlement houses?
What is a prospective payment system?