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From infancy to young adulthood, AOTA’s Children & Youth Specialty Conference is designed to strengthen your pediatric occupational therapy practice. Join us in New Orleans this December 4-5 to learn about functional cognition, oculomotor development, neurodivergence, play, childhood trauma, sleep, feeding difficulties, and more. Earn up to 10.75 contact hours!
Discounted hotel rooms available through October 21! The 2026 Education Summit sessions address AI's growing role in curricula and clinical training, new fieldwork models, simulation-based approaches, doctoral capstone design, student wellbeing, professional identity formation, interprofessional collaboration, DEI in the current policy landscape, and community-engaged practice.
Call for Papers/Reviewers are now open for the 2027 Technology & Innovation in Occupational Therapy Virtual Specialty Conference and AOTA INSPIRE 2027 for late-breaking research, a new Fellowship panel, and the WFOT International Showcase
With AOTA Specialty Conferences on-demand, you can view past conference content in practice areas like adult rehabilitation, pediatrics, and women's health. You'll earn contact hours from anywhere with one year of access. Members save $50!
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Your AOTA membership includes access to essential, everyday practice guidance that helps you provide the best care for your clients and be seen as a trusted provider.
The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) is leading the profession to support a strong and welcoming occupational therapy community by providing resources and tools to strengthen occupational therapy practitioners' contribution to a healthy and engaged community.
Occupational therapy practitioners analyze how an individual's cognition affects their ability to do the things they want and need to do and collaborate with clients to design individually-tailored interventions using ADLs and (IADLs) that are meaningful to the client and provide direct application of functional skills.
Rest and sleep is a foundational occupation in the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, 4th edition. Occupational therapy practitioners can help clients, groups, and communities to manage and develop healthy and effective routines and habits to promote sleep.
Occupational therapy practitioners work with clients who may be or who are experiencing pain. Services are often provided in multi-disciplinary teams, where clients can benefit from the team approach.
I gladly renew my AOTA membership to have an educated voice in advocacy and to be equipped to succeed in the ever-changing health care arena.
