Occupational Therapy Preparation
What is an Occupational Therapist (OT)?
What is an Occupational Therapist?
Pre-Application Counseling Sessions (Salus University)
“Occupational therapists help people across the lifespan participate in the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of everyday activities. Common occupational therapy interventions include helping children with disabilities to participate fully in school and social situations, helping people recovering from injury to regain skills, and providing older adults experiencing physical and cognitive changes.”
(Aota web site)
An Occupational Therapist has a variety of specialty areas to go into such as (but not limited to):
- Aquatherapy exercises
- Autism
- Diabetes
- Brain injuries
- Environmental modification
- Gerontology
- Hand Therapy
- Low vision
- Lymphedema
- Mental Health
- Physical rehabilitation
- School systems
- Seating and Mobility specialist
- And many more!
Resources and Opportunities:
- Compilation of resources
- Five steps to getting into school
- Resources including how to become an OT and common prerequisites
- General admission requirements(but look at the individual schools that you wish to attend!)
- List of scholarships
- Scholarships by region
- Guidebook to applying for school