Disability is diversity: Changing OT culture to include disabilities

How can the occupational therapy (OT) profession address health care disparities and facilitate best practices for improving opportunities for faculty, students, staff, and patients who have various disabilities? It takes commitment, action, and an understanding that students and professionals with disabilities are part of the solution to address health care disparities and are not patients. Disability is an identity and part of diversity. It is not a condition requiring treatment or a cure. Health disparities may benefit from inclusion of disabled practitioners in the workforce, but what we are talking about is changing the occupational therapy culture to specifically include disability as part of diversity and OT.