Recently, the American Occupational Therapy Association endorsed Boston University's Activity Measure for Post Acute Care (AM-PAC), a tool to measure client outcomes in three categories of function-mobility, daily activities and cognition. The assessment will play a critical role in the development of AOTA's outcomes database, a project identified ...

I have been studying the history and concept of occupational therapy for the past 21 years, mentored mostly by people like the late Helen Hopkins, the late Gail Fidler, ADVANCE columnist Jane Sorensen, and Texas educator Kitty Reed. The founders' names, the places, are inscribed on my brain. Their philosophies are by this time in my blood. ...

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, advocacy and more. AOTA and the American Occupational Therapy Foundation handed out some of their ...

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 interconnected spider webs. ''We need each other to implement the Centennial Vision,'' she ...

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 89th annual conference. If you've ever attended an AOTA conference, you know the opening ceremonies are always something to look forward to. This year was no exception, as OTs were ...

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 topics and skill sets can go in entry-level training.  That is, what ...

The ADVANCE team is packed and ready to head to Houston for the 89th Annual AOTA National Conference! Well, some of us still need to pack, but we are definitely ready for the warm Texas weather and to see all of the friendly, familiar OT faces that we have come to know over the years. To read a little about the behind-the-scenes preparation ...

This week, I will be attending AOTA's national Conference in Houston, TX. I will also have the pleasure of helping to staff the exhibit for the Commission for Certification of Case Managers (CCMC). If you will be at Conference, please stop by CCMC's booth (#838-near AOTA Member Resource Center) to find out more about the certification process. I ...

By a vote of 50-1, the Representative Assembly has defeated Motion 5 that would have changed the elective procedure for members of the AOTA Board of Directors to ensure that it included a broad representation of practice areas. It has also turned down a motion from the SISC to develop a more equitable and consistent method ...

The Representative Assembly is in full swing this week, having already voted on several measures and in discussion of several more. The assembly passed the items on Consent Agenda Y, and also voted unanimously to have the Commission on Continuing Competence and Professional Development (CCCPD) develop guidelines that state licensure boards can ...