Develops and administers the initial certification examination
Generates education related policy and recommends to the RA for deliberation/adoption
Develops and implements the standards for all education programs. Determines accreditation status for all MOT, OTD and OTA schools.
Knowledge, critical thinking, motives, traits, characteristics, or skills to achieve a specific goal or perform job responsibilities
Non profit that works to advance the science and increase public awareness of OT
Issues licenses to OT and OTA practitioners
Operates within AOTA to develop the association's code of ethics and provides recommendation for ethical standard setting in the OT profession.
Exists within AOTA to develop practice guidelines that are related to and define the practice of OT
Policy making body of the association often referred to as "congress"
Operates within AOTA to recommend continuing competence standards and develops tools to assist members in the development and implementation of continuing competence plans.
Develops standards & guidelines for the profession, offers professional development, advocates for occupational therapy practitioners
Primary groups that play a role in defining and applying standards related to competence and continuing competence
Commission on Continuing Competence and Professional Development (CCCPD)
ACOTE (Accreditation Council for OT Education)
Competence
AOTF (American Occupational Therapy Foundation)
AOTA Representative assembly (RA)
State regulatory boards (SRB)
NBCOT (National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy)
AOTA, NBCOT, Governmental programs, State regulatory agencies, Institutional accreditation boards
Ethics Commission
COP (Commission on Practice)
AOTA (American Occupational Therapy Association)
COE (Commision on Education)
