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OT Practice Article

Occupational therapy’s role with teenage pregnancy

Sabina Khan, Tyra Mobley, Yaneisy Hurtado, Mia Lansberg, Courtney Emmons, Viviana Moreno, Heather Crotty, and Emily Nasello, Volume 30 • Issue 1 • January 2025, pp. 20-23 January 01, 2025

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Get ready for AOTA 2025 Elections

Register for Evenings with the Candidates, fill out your sample ballot, and view candidate bios. Voting opens on January 31 at 11:59 am ET.

End-of-year legislation includes three-month Medicare telehealth extension for occupational therapy

December 21, 2024

AOTA advocacy: UHC Medicare Advantage prior authorization

Julie Lenhardt, Manager, Reimbursement & Regulatory Policy December 20, 2024

OT Practice Article

Tips for maintaining your state practice license

Kristen Neville, Volume 29 • Issue 12 • December 2024, p. 8-9 December 01, 2024

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Your clients deserve informed care

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.

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Explore career opportunities and view job listings

Whether you're just starting out or looking for new opportunities, your AOTA membership provides the tools and resources you need to find a job, advance your career, and be your best.

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Professional development and continuing education programs empower you to acquire new knowledge and capabilities. Improve your effectiveness. Enhance your reputation. Create new wins.

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AOTA advances your vital role as a trusted provider

Your membership allows us to be a powerful voice for the profession. We protect your needs and create new opportunities by advocating on your behalf though state and federal government outreach.

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Stay connected, find your inspiration

The AOTA community is your place to connect and collaborate with other OTs and OTAs. Share knowledge and ideas, seek creativity, and find your inspiration.

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Your AOTA membership gives you unlimited opportunities to participate in projects and events that advance the profession and make your voice heard.

Practice resources

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Diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, access & belonging in OT

AOTA is leading the profession to be more diverse, equitable, and inclusive through its commitment to developing DEI resources and tools to strengthen occupational therapy practitioners' contribution to a healthy and engaged community.

Functional cognition in OT

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.

Sleep

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.

Use AOTA’s pain management resources in your everyday practice

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.

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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.

Sue Ram

OTD, OTR/L, AOTA member for 5 years

I want to give a big shout-out to the OT practitioners who give hope as part of their treatment. It makes a huge difference.

Susie Touchinsky

OTR/L, SCDCM, CDRS, AOTA member for 7 years

Occupational therapists have the privilege of helping people learn or relearn how to connect with their environment, and we get to have fun while we do it.

Lisa Griggs-Stapleton

Albuquerque, New Mexico

I have already found the profession of occupational therapy to be fascinating, rewarding, and challenging, and filled with countless opportunities to serve one’s community, one’s country, and one’s world.

Brandi Buchanan

Los Angeles, California

I like to think of occupational therapists as puzzle solvers because they assist clients in solving how to complete tasks that they may or may not have been able to do in the past.

Stacy Landau

Ithaca, New York

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