Demonstrate Your Professional Excellence!
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| Streamlined and Improved in 2009 to Reflect Your Feedback! |
For comments or questions, contact
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AOTA certification speaks volumes to colleagues, employers, and consumers. It is a validation by your professional organization of your dedication to continuing competence and quality service delivery.
AOTA certification programs provide you with many benefits—
- Greater salary potential in your job search
- Potentially increased referrals and reimbursement of your services
- Marketing advantage with your employers and clients
- Consumer recognition of your advanced knowledge and expertise in your specialty area
- Professional respect for your level of commitment and best practices
- Competitive edge with other disciplines and enhancement of your status in the professional community
- Outstanding professional development in your practice area
- Personal accomplishment in identifying and valuing your skills
- Connection to a community of therapists who share your commitment to ongoing competence
Competencies and criteria that define either advanced or specialized occupational therapy practice are the core of each of the Board and Specialty Certification areas. These competencies and criteria represent knowledge, critical and ethical reasoning, and interpersonal and performance skills that are specifically geared to occupational therapy.
| The 8 certification areas are as follows: |
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Board Certification
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Specialty Certification
(OT and OTA) |
- Gerontology
- Mental Health
- Pediatrics
- Physical Rehabilitation
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- Driving and Community Mobility
- Environmental Modification
- Feeding, Eating, and Swallowing
- Low Vision
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Next Application Deadline: December 9, 2009