Work/Education
The American Occupational Therapy Association developed a 12 week curriculum to train this type of healthcare worker for general practice
What is a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant?
This show first aired in the 1960s and was watched by many families.
What is the Brady Bunch?
This commission officially recognized the AOTA/AMA collaborative relationship in accreditation in 1964.
What is the National Commission on Accrediting (NCA)?
During the “March on Washington” in 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. gave this Speech during the Civil Rights Movement
What is "I have a Dream"?
Ralph Baer invented in 1966 that changed the way games were played.
What is the Video Game Console?
“Golden Years” for the medical field due to the fact that 70% of the population now had health insurance due to the new Medicare policy.
What is the 1960s?
In July 1968, this competition was held in Chicago, IL, for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
What is the Special Olympics?
This federally mandated health care was introduced that provided those over 65 y/o and were permanently and totally disabled assistance in paying for their health care.
What is Medicare?
This man received honorable discharge on May 23,1960 after two years in the Army.
Who is Elvis Presley?
This tool was invented that changed the way humans interact with computers.
What is the Computer Mouse?
This association published the position paper “Licensing and Standards of Competency in Occupational Therapy”.
What is the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)?
A popular board game played by families where individuals many have to contort their bodies.
What is Twister?
This profession adopted an official definition that said: “The art and science of directing man’s response to selected activity to promote and maintain health, to prevent disability, to evaluate behavior, and to treat or train patients with physical or psychosocial dysfunction.”
What is Occupational Therapy?
This Act was established in 1963 that mandates equal pay for equal work by both men and women.
What is the Equal Pay Act?
A great advancement that ranked high among the health-care related marvels of the 1960s. An artificial heart was developed to use during this surgery when a patient's heart was not completely functional.
What is Cardiovascular (heart) surgery?
This national organization was designed to advance the science of occupational therapy and increase public understanding of the value of occupational therapy.
What is the American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF)?
This toy revolutionized the doll industry in 1964, as it was the first doll in existence to appeal to little boys
What is G.I Joe?
Dr. Lawrence Weed is credited with developing what type of notes in the 1960s as part of his efforts to make client charting more client-centered
What is SOAP Notes?
This act was signed by John F. Kennedy in 1963 to deinstitutionalize individuals with physical and mental disabilities allowing them back into their communities.
What is the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963?
This gadget was invented that allowed the first minimally invasive surgical procedure.
What is Balloon Embolectomy Catheter?
The 1960s were characterized by rapid workforce growth, economic transformation resulting from automation, and policy attention to poverty alleviation through _________. Some examples included Head Start, Medicare, Community Action Agencies, legal aid, and Food Stamps.
What is the Great Society Programs?
Play was used to help develop this type of skill.
What is Social Competence?
This woman developed the Sensory Integration Therapy approach which explored the importance of sensory for children during play and self care
Who is Anna Jean Ayers?
This foundation became a charitable and educational tax-exempt foundation as described in Section 401C(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
What is the National Occupational Therapy Foundation?
Nils Bohlin was a Swedish Mechanical Engineer who invented the this car safety feature that became a patent for road vehicles in 1962.
What is Three-point Automobile Safety Belt?