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. All that usually entails is assigning delegates to the particular committees that will ...

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 nearly a $200,000 profit, showing a strong comeback since its 2004 fiscal low point. ...

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 the program should be urgently addresses and therefore moved up the timeframe which reflected a ...

  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 that discussed the issue yesterday afternoon. The new name of the SIS will be the the ...

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 won't arrive until tomorrow for the opening ceremony, keynote speaker and the grand opening of ...

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 for up to the minute commentary on conference activities. Coverage will ...