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The Oklahoma Occupational Therapists Committee is happy to welcome you to their new website.
We hope you find much useful information. We are grateful to the Oklahoma
Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision for the support of this site.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call our main office
at 405-848-6841.
In order to safeguard the public health, safety and welfare, to protect
the public from being misled by incompetent and unauthorized persons,
to assure the highest degree of professional conduct on the part of occupational
therapists and occupational therapy assistants, and to assure the availability
of occupational therapy services of high quality to persons in need of
such services, it is the purpose of this act to provide for the regulation
of persons offering occupational therapy services to the public.
888.3. Definitions As used in this act: 1. "Occupational therapy"
is a health profession for which practitioners provide assessment, treatment,
and consultation through the use of purposeful activity with individuals
who are limited by or at risk of physical illness or injury, psycho-social
dysfunction, developmental or learning disabilities, poverty and cultural
differences or the aging process, in order to maximize independence, prevent
disability, and maintain health.
Specific occupational therapy services include but are not limited to
the use of media and methods such as instruction in daily living skills
and cognitive retraining, facilitating self-maintenance, work and leisure
skills, using standardized or adapted techniques, designing, fabricating,
and applying selected orthotic equipment or selective adaptive equipment
with instructions, using therapeutically applied creative activities,
exercise, and other media to enhance and restore functional performance,
to administer and interpret tests which may include sensorimotor evaluation,
psycho-social assessments, standardized or nonstandardized tests, to improve
developmental skills, perceptual motor skills, and sensory integrative
function, and to adapt the environment for the handicapped. These services
are provided individually, in groups, or through social systems;
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