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Congratulations Are in Order!
April 26, 2009 11:04 PM by Jill Glomstad
No AOTA Conference is complete without its annual night to celebrate the best, brightest and most dedicated. Last night's awards ceremony honored dozens of OTs who have helped advance the profession through research, practice, education, scholarship, Read More...
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Are You a Spider?
April 25, 2009 4:12 PM by Jill Glomstad
That was AOTA President Penelope Moyers-Cleveland's question for her audience at the Presidential Address this year. Attendees received spider rings as they entered the hall to hear her speech, and Cleveland took the stage with a red cape that resembled Read More...
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Houston Heats Up
April 24, 2009 5:53 PM by Jill Glomstad
It's sunny and in the 80s this week in Houston, but its occupational therapists who are really heating up the city as thousands have come from far and wide for AOTA's 89 th annual conference. If you've ever attended an AOTA conference, you know the opening Read More...
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Conference Update: A Speed Bump in the Future of OT Education?
April 23, 2009 1:24 PM by EJ Brown
It's widely known within the profession that occupational therapy has an education "problem." The issue isn't in the quality of its academics, nor in a lack of program levels or foci. The difficulty that is arising lies in how far and wide the scope of Read More...
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RA Update: International Fieldwork, Licensure Standards for Re-entry Get Favorable Comments
April 2, 2009 10:15 PM by EJ Brown
On day 4 of the 2009 Representative Assembly, the body is still awaiting passage of Consent Agenda Y, which recommends defeat of three orginal motions with which task groups (TGs) have replaced some substitute motions. They are: Motion 1 , which would Read More...
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Join the 2009 Representative Assembly
March 31, 2009 10:30 AM by EJ Brown
The spring RA officially opened yesterday, and role call is continuing. For those of you AOTA members who have never attended the RA at conference, this is a real opportunity to "see" and "hear" your elected reps in action. The meeting is being held on Read More...
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AOTA Board & Specialty Certification: Why & How
October 11, 2008 7:14 PM by Jessica LaGrossa
This afternoon I attended AOTA's presentation on board and specialty certification by Pamela Roberts, PhD, OTR/L, SCFES, CPHQ, FAOTA; Winifred Schultz-Krohn, PhD, OTR/L, SWC, BCP, FAOTA; and Deborah Pitts, MBA, OTR/L, CPRP. It is an area that can be confusing Read More...
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Occupational Therapy. Living Life to Its Fullest
April 14, 2008 11:45 PM by EJ Brown
When we walked into the RA meeting last Wednesday in Long Beach, the assembly was about to close its doors in executive session. In 15 years of covering the Representative Assembly, I had never heard of a closed-door session in task group preparation. Read More...
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The Annual Business Meeting
April 13, 2008 2:53 AM by EJ Brown
The 2008 business meeting of the American Occupational Therapy Association took place in Long Beach on Saturday, with reports from AOTA officers and executive director Fred Somers. AOTA ran in the black for the third year in a row in fiscal 2007, with Read More...
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It wasn't money the RA wanted
April 12, 2008 1:15 AM by EJ Brown
Each year the RA challenges its members to individually support the AOT political action committee (PAC), the organization that funds AOTA's lobbying, both on Capitol Hill and within the states as requested and needed. Each year many RA members rise to Read More...
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RA Moves to Strengthen Physical Rehab Education
April 10, 2008 5:17 PM by Jill Glomstad
Motion 1 was a hot topic on AOTA listservs prior to the conference. The motion asked the Representative Assembly to create a committee to establish competencies in upper extremity rehab for entry-level practitioners. While Motion 1 was defeated earlier Read More...
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RA Passes Voluntary Credentialing for Fieldwork Educators
April 10, 2008 2:59 PM by Jessica LaGrossa
The RA has passed the motion to implement a voluntary credentialing fieldwork educator (VCFWE) program. The motion requests that an initial training program be implemented at the 2009 AOTA conference. The task group who worked on the motion felt that Read More...
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Representative Assembly Passes SSSIS Name Change
April 10, 2008 1:45 PM by EJ Brown
After 3 years of ball tossing, the 2008 RA ahas just pproved a name change that will add EI to the name of the School System Special Interest Section. It happend a few minutes ago, after some discussion, and against the recommendation of the task group Read More...
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AOTA Conference: Just Gettin' Started
April 9, 2008 8:56 PM by Jessica LaGrossa
Registration officially opened this morning at the Long Beach Convention Center! While early birds could be seen picking up their name badges and wondering the grounds of the convention center and conference hotel (the Hyatt), the majority of attendees Read More...
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All our bags are packed!
April 7, 2008 3:09 PM by Jessica LaGrossa
We at ADVANCE have packed our many, many bags and are ready to go to Long Beach for AOTA's national conference! We look forward to bringing our readers all of the latest conference coverage daily live from Long Beach. Check out our Web site at www.advanceweb.com/ot Read More...
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