Title: 
Headings: Definition of Occupational Therapy Practice for the AOTA Model Practice Act
Definition
 
of
 
Occupational
 
Therapy
 
Practice
 
for
 
the
 
AOTA
 
Model
 
Practice
 
Act
 

Content: Assessment,
 
recommendation,
 
and
 
training
 
in
 
techniques
 
to
 
enhance
 
functional
 
mobility,
 
including
 
management
 
of
 
wheelchairs
 
and
 
other
 
mobility
 
devices. Low
 
vision
 
rehabilitation. Driver
 
rehabilitation
 
and
 
community
 
mobility. Management
 
of
 
feeding,
 
eating,
 
and
 
swallowing
 
to
 
enable
 
eating
 
and
 
feeding
 
performance. Application
 
of
 
physical
 
agent
 
modalities,
 
and
 
use
 
of
 
a
 
range
 
of
 
specific
 
therapeutic
 
procedures
    
(such
 
as
 
wound
 
care
 
management; interventions
 
to
 
enhance
 
sensory-perceptual,
 
and
 
cognitive
 
processing; and
 
manual
 
therapy)
 
to
 
enhance
 
performance
 
skills. Facilitating
 
the
 
occupational
 
performance
 
of
 
groups,
 
populations,
 
or
 
organizations
 
through
 
the
 
modification
 
of
 
environments
 
and
 
the
 
adaptation
 
of
 
processes. Adopted
 
by
 
the
 
Representative
 
Assembly
 
4/14/11
 
(Agenda
 
A13,
 
Charge
 
18)