Motions and Action Representative Assembly Action Items

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Motions and ActionRepresentative Assembly Action
Items

• Preparing for AOTA Conference 2007
• Claudette Stork ReidMichigan Representative to
  the RA, AOTA
• Mary Kay CurrieMichigan Representative to the
  RA, AOTA

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What Happens in St. Louis

• Representative Assembly of AOTA
• Policy setting body for AOTA
• Representation of all states by population

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Makeup of the RA
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AOTA Conference

• Representative Assembly Meets Tuesday, April 17
  through Friday, April 20, 2007
• 5 Motions
• Action Items

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  at the 2005 RA
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Motion 1

• Motion 1

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Motion 1 Examination of AOTA Position on
Entry-Level Education for the Occupational
Therapist

• We move that the RA establish an ad hoc committee
  of the Commission on Education (COE) and
  Commission on Practice (COP) to review the
  assumptions and positions within Resolution J,
  1999, dealing with entry level practice (for the
  OT) to
• determine and clarify the professions current
  position on masters and doctoral entry into the
  profession,
• consider the significant distinctions made by two
  standards of education based on degree level.

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Motion 1 Examination of AOTA Position on
Entry-Level Education for the Occupational
Therapist

• The goal to recommend if the profession should
  continue to adhere to Resolution J, revise and
  alter Resolution J, or rescind Resolution J and
  construct a new guideline.

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Motion 1 Examination of AOTA Position on
Entry-Level Education for the Occupational
Therapist

• Dependent upon the recommendation, additional
  suggestions for implementing the recommendations
  should be made as appropriate.
• This ad hoc committee should be given purview to
  explore all history related to Resolution J in
  light of the Centennial Vision and current
  practice trends, education standards and outcome
  expectations for degree levels, and market and
  health care policy forces.
• The outcome of the committee should be a report
  to the 2008 Representative Assembly (spring
  meeting) summarizing findings.

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Motion 1 Examination of AOTA Position on
Entry-Level Education for the Occupational
Therapist

• RATIONALE
• Resolution J, 1999, called for the education of
  occupational therapists to move to a
  post-baccalaureate level. Under that resolution,
  entry-level programs could be masters or
  doctoral level.
• At the time resolution J became effective,
  baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral level
  degree programs were accredited under the same
  set of standards for entry-level programs.

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Motion 1 Examination of AOTA Position on
Entry-Level Education for the Occupational
Therapist

• Since that time, the Council for Higher Education
  Accreditation and the U.S. Department of
  Education have indicated that if two degree
  levels (masters and doctoral) are accredited,
  then distinct standards should clearly delineate
  the differences in education for each and be
  reflective of the differences between the level
  of a masters versus doctoral degree.

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Motion 1 Examination of AOTA Position on
Entry-Level Education for the Occupational
Therapist

• As a result, the Accreditation Council for
  Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) has
  developed standards for masters entry-level
  (adopted 2006) and doctoral entry-level
  occupational therapy education (adopted 2006).

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Motion 1 Examination of AOTA Position on
Entry-Level Education for the Occupational
Therapist

• Other issues identified in the rational for the
  motion include
• Impact on enrollment
• Impact on perceived value or legitimacy of one
  degree over another
• Impact on program viability
• Impact on Practice roles

• Impact on program viability,
• Belief that an OT with a specific degree is
  suited to a particular role,
• The use of the information in health care policy
  setting as minimum standards for competence.

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Motion 1 Examination of AOTA Position on
Entry-Level Education for the Occupational
Therapist

• Education should not be considered in isolation
  but rather with the acknowledgement that degree
  levels could impact employment trends and the
  viability of the profession as a whole in the
  competitive health care market.

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Motion 1 Examination of AOTA Position on
Entry-Level Education for the Occupational
Therapist

• In conclusion, considering the changes in the
  education guidelines since Resolution J, the
  potential unintended results of different and
  specific standards for masters and doctoral
  entry-level education on roles and
  responsibilities within practice and education,
  and multiple external factors and forces, we call
  for the professions informed position to be
  clearly defined.

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Motion 1 Examination of AOTA Position on
Entry-Level Education for the Occupational
Therapist

• FISCAL IMPLICATIONS Total of 7,808
• Ad Hoc Committee (based on a 7-member group)
• Staff Time Coordination of Committee Activities
  500
• Travel to AOTA National Office (one 2-day
  meeting) 5,880
• Air Fare 325
• Per Diem (3 days) 105
• Hotel (3 nights) 360
• Related Expenses (Food / Services) 50
• Total (per person) 840
• (7 people x 840 5,880)
• Electronic or Telephone Total 378
• 6 conference calls, 90 minutes each
• 0.10/ minute x 90 minutes 9 x 7 63 per
  call
• 63 x 6 calls 378
• (May not be necessary if systems at AOTA can
  accommodate this format.)
• Postage/Duplicating 50
• Posting of Recommendations if appropriate (AOTAs
  1-Minute Update, Other Media) 1,000

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Motion 5

• TITLE Motions to request Accreditation Council
  for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE)
  Moratorium on Accreditation of Additional
  Entry-level Doctoral Programs and Masters Degree
  as the Required Entry Level Into the Profession

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Motion 5A

• Motion 5A

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Motion 5A

• We move that the Speaker of the RA charge the
  President of AOTA to request that ACOTE start a
  moratorium on accrediting additional entry-level
  doctoral programs until the RA has considered the
  following
• 1. ACOTEs decision to discontinue accrediting
  programs and begin accrediting specific degrees,
  and
• 2. The adoption of two sets of standards that
  create a two-tiered hierarchy of entry-level
  practitioners
• a. the OTD graduate (identified by ACOTE as
  advanced practitioner)
• b. the masters degree graduate (identified by
  ACOTE as entry-level)

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Motion 5B

• Motion 5B

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Motion 5B

• We move that the RA support identifying the
  masters degree as the required degree for entry
  into the profession, and that the Speaker of the
  RA charge the President of AOTA to request that
• 1. ACOTE limit accreditation to entry-level
  masters programs.
• 2. ACOTE immediately advise currently accredited
  entry-level doctoral programs that their programs
  must be revised in a timely fashion to reflect
  the awarding of a masters degree consistent with
  the current masters educational standards.

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Motion 5

• RATIONALE
• AOTA began accrediting educational programs in
  1923
• ACOTE was established in 1999 as a separate
  accrediting entity
• Both entry level masters and baccalaureate
  programs have been accredited for over 30 years
  using eh same standard

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Motion 5

• 1999 Resolution J established post baccalaureate
  entry for OT
• In 2004, ACOTE became aware of a 2002 U.S. Dept.
  of Education guideline that states that if an
  agency accredits two levels of education, then
  different standards of education must be in place
  which clearly differentiate the two degrees as to
  rigor and educational expectations.

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Motion 5

• 1999 Resolution J established post baccalaureate
  entry for OT
• In 2004, ACOTE became aware of a 2002 U.S. Dept.
  of Education guideline that states that if an
  agency accredits two levels of education, then
  different standards of education must be in place
  which clearly differentiate the two degrees as to
  rigor and educational expectations.

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Motion 5

• In 2005, ACOTE decided to accredit the degree,
  rather than the program, leading to two sets of
  standards
• masters degree and doctoral degree (OTD).

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Motion 5

• We believe that ACOTEs change to accrediting
  specific degrees and the resulting two-tiered
  hierarchy of OTD and masters standards are not
  what the originators of Resolution J intended
  when they recommended that the profession move to
  post baccalaureate level for entry into the
  profession.

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Motion 5

• In 2005, the RA was working with ACOTE to address
  differentiation of the professions degrees. The
  committee charged with this action is scheduled
  to report in 2007.
• In January 2007 ACOTE approved OTD educational
  standards, thus minimizing the impact of any
  further input from the RA on this important
  issue.

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Motion 5

• ACOTE dismissed the report of its own internal
  Educational Standards Review Committee (ESRC),
  which opposed expansion of OTD entry-level
  programs and recommended the profession focus on
  the OTD as a post-professional degree.
• The ESRCs recommendation was based on a national
  membership survey that supported a
  post-professional clinical doctorate over the
  entry-level doctorate.

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Motion 5

• ACOTE developed draft standards, processed survey
  input, revised, and adopted a new set of
  standards for doctoral entry education in what
  appears to be a fast track.
• The recently adopted masters standards required
  3 years of review.
• We feel ACOTE adopted the OTD standards with
  minimal assessment of the impact on the
  profession and on educational programs.

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Motion 5

• Further Issues of Concern
• How will the OTD and masters level therapists be
  perceived by the public and specific
  stakeholders? Will they be perceived as equal or
  unequal? Will this perception be accurate? How
  could inaccurate perceptions of the profession
  adversely affect it?
• AOTAs Centennial Vision espouses the need for
  the profession to emphasize evidence-based
  practice and be scientifically driven. Which
  degree best supports this vision, the OTD degree,
  or the PhD degree?

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Motion 5

• Further Issues of Concern
• The legitimacy and worth of clinical doctoral
  degrees in a variety of health professions has
  been called into question. Is the OTD being
  called into question? If so, by whom and for what
  reasons?
• What effect will the cost of the OTD degree have
  on a students total educational costs in time
  and dollars? What effect will the OTD have on the
  health care costs of the country?

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Motion 5

• FISCAL IMPLICATIONS There are no fiscal
  implications with these motions as written.

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Motion 2

• Motion 2

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Motion 2 Early Intervention Pre-professional
Training

• I move that the Representative Assembly charge
  the Commission on Practice (COP) and the
  Commission on Education (COE) to jointly report
  on the early intervention (birth to 3 years)
  content in educational programs for occupational
  therapy, making recommendations for nationwide
  identification and recognition of common training
  elements, and using gathered information to
  develop strategies to address barriers to entry
  for occupational therapy practice in Early
  Intervention programs. Report to Spring 2008
  Representative Assembly.

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Motion 2 Early Intervention Pre-professional
Training

• RATIONALE Though Early Intervention services are
  federally mandated, wide flexibility is given to
  states for actual program development. This has
  given rise, in some areas, to a restriction of
  occupational therapy practice for licensed
  professionals.

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Motion 2 Early Intervention Pre-professional
Training

• For example, the State of Illinois has enacted
  the following training requirements
• 30 clock hours Infant Development Typical and
  Atypical
• 30 clock hours Working with Families of Infants
  with Special Needs
• 30 clock hours Intervention Approaches for
  Infants with Special Needs
• 30 clock hours Infant Assessment
• 240 clock hours Supervised professional
  experience in Early Intervention

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Motion 2 Early Intervention Pre-professional
Training

• Pre-professional training in these targeted areas
  is often denied credit by state credentials
  reviewers who are not occupational therapy
  professionals.

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Motion 2 Early Intervention Pre-professional
Training

• In October 2005, the AOTA Ad Hoc Workgroup on
  Families and Caregivers Across the Lifespan
  identified the potential for an increase in
  emphasis on occupational therapy pre-professional
  and clinical education programs on expanding
  knowledge and intervention approaches to more
  effectively meet the growing needs of families
  and caregivers.

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Motion 2 Early Intervention Pre-professional
Training

• There is a need to carefully identify and
  articulate the training and expertise of OT
  professionals for functioning in community-based
  programs for infants and their families.
• This will encourage further development of
  pre-professional training activities to meet
  societys health, wellness, and quality of life
  needs in emerging areas of practice.

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Motion 2 Early Intervention Pre-professional
Training

• FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
• Telephone3 conference calls (90 minutes) 500
• Duplicating and Postage 15
• Estimated total 650

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Motion 3

• Motion 3

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Motion 3 Availability of AJOT on an Established
Full-Text Database

• I move that the President charge the Executive
  Director to contract with at least one e-journal
  database, such as the Academic Search Premier
  database, and make available the full text of all
  articles published in the American Journal of
  Occupational Therapy (AJOT) beginning with the
  year 1999 and thereafter, except for the most
  recent 12 months which would be cited in
  bibliographic format, with a report due at the
  Online meeting of the RA in the fall.

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Motion 3 Availability of AJOT on an Established
Full-Text Database

• RATIONALE
• Purpose is to make the full text of recent
  articles in AJOT available through an established
  electronic journal database system to
  researchers, practitioners, students, other
  professionals, and consumers around the world.

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Motion 3 Availability of AJOT on an Established
Full-Text Database

• The resolution is consistent with the intent of
  AOTAs Mission Statement, which states that the
  Association advances the quality, availability,
  use, and support of occupational therapy through
  standard-setting, advocacy, education, and
  research on behalf of its members and the
  public. Making AJOT more accessible meets the
  objectives of supporting advocacy, education, and
  research.

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Motion 3 Availability of AJOT on an Established
Full-Text Database

• Access to the full text of articles in AJOT
  would
• Expand the availability of information around the
  world, where access to print copy is limited.
• Facilitate the development of research projects
  that may contribute to the growing body of
  evidence-based literature on occupational therapy
  practice.
• Increase the visibility of the journal as a major
  voice of OT, increase the retrieval of OT
  literature in full-text database searches, and
  potentially increase the citation of OT articles
  in non-occupational therapy journals, thus
  increasing the visibility of the profession.

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Motion 3 Availability of AJOT on an Established
Full-Text Database

• According to the Associations Centennial
  Imperatives,
• OT must have a clear, compelling public image.
  AJOT is a powerful marketing tool to show other
  professionals and consumers what OT practitioners
  and researchers are doing to advance the
  profession of occupational therapy and improve
  its image.
• OT must have the power to influence. AJOT
  provides a forum that can assist in the
  development of a power base for the profession by
  reporting the work accomplished by occupational
  therapy practitioners and researchers.

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Motion 3 Availability of AJOT on an Established
Full-Text Database

• In the past, statements have been made that
  limited access to AJOT is necessary to encourage
  membership in the Association. The Australian
  Occupational Therapy Journal has been available
  full text for several years. The Australian
  Association of Occupational Therapists seems to
  be going strong, based on their performance at
  the World Federation of Occupational Therapists
  in Sydney, Australia.
• Equating membership to accessing the journal
  seems an unwarranted assumption.
• Other journals that are available full text
  include Occupational Therapy International and
  the Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy.

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Motion 3 Availability of AJOT on an Established
Full-Text Database

• FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
• Mounting fees. Venders do not answer requests for
  cost information from individuals such as the
  authors of the resolution. Requests must come
  from a database owner such as the Association.
  The (cost) information should be available by the
  time of the RA meeting.

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Motion 3 Availability of AJOT on an Established
Full-Text Database

• FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
• Digitizing fees. This resolution does not request
  money to digitize back issues or years of AJOT,
  only to make available those years already
  available in digital form, which starts in 1999.
  Current manuscripts are submitted in digital form
  so no digitizing cost is expected in the future.

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Motion 3 Availability of AJOT on an Established
Full-Text Database

• FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
• Reprint income. Professional journals typically
  report that income from reprints is highest for
  the most recent 12-month period of journal
  publication. Therefore, many journals owners
  provide only bibliographic information but not
  full-text access to journal articles published
  during the current 12 month period. The fees from
  reprints should not be seriously affected if AJOT
  reprint requests follow this typical pattern.

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Motion 3 Availability of AJOT on an Established
Full-Text Database

• FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
• Subscription income. Regarding loss of
  subscriptions by nonmembers, this loss is already
  occurring. Libraries, which make up a large part
  of any journals nonmember subscriptions, are
  under financial pressure to reduce the cost of
  journal subscriptions and the cost of maintaining
  print copies in terms of staff processing time
  and floor space to house the print volumes. Any
  loss of income from nonmember subscriptions must
  be accounted for in other budget adjustments,
  regardless of the outcome of this resolution.

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Motion 4

• Motion 4

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Motion 4 Increase Volumes of the AJOT Available
Online

• MOTION I move that the Board of Directors
  develop a plan and proceed to make more volumes
  of AJOT available full text online as a member
  privilege as well as for purchase by nonmembers
  such as virtual libraries in universities,
  research centers, and online databases. Twenty or
  more additional years (back to 1980) should be
  the minimum made available. All Slagle lectures
  and any articles prior to 1980 that are
  frequently requested from the Wilma L. West
  Library would also be digitized.

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Motion 4 Increase Volumes of the AJOT Available
Online

• RATIONALE
• Complete-text AJOT articles are only available
  from 1999 on as an AOTA member privilege or
  through OVID.
• At a time when faculty and clinicians are
  pressured to base clinical services on an
  evidence base and to carry out needed clinical
  research, it is a liability to have such limited
  access to the most important American OT journal.
  In addition, with the shift to basic professional
  education at the graduate level, there is more
  need to access the historical roots of the field
  in review papers and research proposals.

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Motion 4 Increase Volumes of the AJOT Available
Online

• Students, clinicians, and faculty need quick
  access to resources and have learned how to use
  the virtual library.
• University and clinical libraries are shifting
  their resources into virtual libraries rather
  than hard copies. Two chief medical librarians
  and a CINAHL representative have indicated that
  OT stands out as the only major American health
  field with little virtual access to full text of
  its major journal.

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Motion 4 Increase Volumes of the AJOT Available
Online

• By limiting access to AJOT other professions may
  remain unaware of valuable OT contributions to a
  particular area of research or program
  development.
• We are hampering international access by our
  fellow OTs as well as other professionals.
• AOTA staff should be encouraged in their pursuit
  of digitizing the entire AJOT collection with a
  large international company.

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Motion 4 Increase Volumes of the AJOT Available
Online

• FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
• It costs 40 cents per page to scan and build
  searchable PDFs.
• 13,000 pages (estimated) in the 20 years between
  1980 and 1999 estimated cost of 5,200.
• About 35 staff hours, or 1,540, is required to
  install all the PDFs on the AOTA Web site.
• This cost is based on donated journals being
  taken apart and scanned, basically destroying
  them.
• Total cost estimated to be 6,740.

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Report of the Vice Speaker

• B2, Motion 1.
• On behalf of the RACC, I move adoption of AOTAs
  Statement on Family Caregiving.

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Report of the Vice Speaker

• B2, Motion 2. On behalf of the RACC, I move
  adoption of AOTAs Statement on Stress and Stress
  Disorders.

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Report of the Vice Speaker Adoption of AOTAs
Statement on Family Caregiving and Statement on
Stress and Stress Disorders.

• Background/History
• In 2006 the RA approved two new statements on
  Obesity and Health Disparities, which are now on
  AOTAs Web site and included in the newly revised
  The Reference Manual of the Official Documents of
  The American Occupational Therapy Association,
  Inc. and the November/December issue of the
  American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT).
  
• A call for new topics (OT Practice, 1-Minute
  Update) had a small, but substantive response.

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Report of the Vice Speaker Adoption of AOTAs
Statement on Family Caregiving and Statement on
Stress and Stress Disorders.

• Caregiving and stress were selected for
  societal statement development. Authors were
  identified to draft these statements.
• Ann OSullivan is the principal author of the
  societal statement on family caregiving
• Susan Stallings-Sahler is the principal author of
  the societal statement on stress and stress
  disorders.
• Both documents have been reviewed, edited, and
  approved by the RACC.
• They are consistent with the criteria set forth
  for societal statements adopted by the Assembly.
• Fiscal Implications None

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Report of the Commission on Education (COE)

• B1, Motion 1 I move to adopt the document
  Philosophy of Occupational Therapy Education.
• Motion 2 I move to rescind the document,
  Philosophy of Professional Education.

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Report of the Commission on Education (COE)

• The COE has reviewed the document Philosophy of
  Professional Education and has developed a
  replacement document entitled Philosophy of
  Occupational Therapy Education to cover both
  occupational therapist and occupational therapy
  assistant education. The draft has been
  distributed to COE, the Education Special
  Interest Section (EDSIS) Standing Committee, and
  Program Directors for comment.
• This document will replace Philosophy of
  Professional Education in The Reference Manual of
  the Official Documents of The American
  Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.

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Report of the Special Interest Sections Council
(SISC)

• B1, Motion 1.

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Report of the Special Interest Sections Council
(SISC)

• B1, Motion 1. I move that the name of the School
  System Special Interest Section (SSSIS) be
  changed to Early Intervention, Preschool, and
  School Special Interest Section (EIPSSIS).

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Motion to Change Name from School SIS to Early
Intervention, Preschool, and School SIS

• Background/History
• The School System Special Interest Section
  (SSSIS) was founded in 1992/1993 with the stated
  mission of fostering occupational therapy
  services under the federal Individuals with
  Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). That act
  addresses
• early intervention,
• preschools and schools,
• children from birth through 21 years,
• and services in the home, schools, and community
• other settings in which a child may be placed
  (e.g., juvenile justice or specialized mental
  health facilities with schooling) partially paid
  for with IDEA funds.
• For this reason, the current name of the SSSIS
  does not fully convey the range of practice
  settings that it addresses.

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Motion to Change Name from School SIS to Early
Intervention, Preschool, and School SIS

• Although not all early intervention services are
  provided under IDEA, a substantial portion of
  such services are provided under the context of
  this legislation.
• Other Special Interest Sections including Sensory
  Integration and Developmental Disabilities, also
  address early intervention services, and AOTA
  members have access to resources and
  participation in all SISs.

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Motion to Change Name from School SIS to Early
Intervention, Preschool, and School SIS

• Fiscal Implications
• The fiscal implication of this change is minimal,
  consisting only of the 45 postal fee to change
  the name on the permit used to mail the SSSIS
  Quarterly.

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Report of the Bylaws, Policies and Procedures
Committee (BPPC)

• B1, Motion 1.
• Approve the 2007 Bylaws amendments

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Report of the Bylaws, Policies and Procedures
Committee (BPPC)

• Approve the 2007 Bylaws amendments
• revised Policy 1.24 Antitrust Compliance.
• revised Policy 1.36 Specialty Certification.
• revised Policy 1.46 Assembly and Election Area
  Representations.
• revised Policy 1.47 Association Ad Hoc
  Committees.
• revised Attachment A Enforcement Procedures to
  the EC SOP.
• revised Attachment A SIS Formation/Reorganization
  /Dissolution to the SIS SOP.

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Report of the Bylaws, Policies and Procedures
Committee (BPPC)

• revised Attachment B SIS Subsection
• Formation/Reorganization/Dissolution to the SIS
  SOP.
• revised Attachment C SIS Network
• Formation/Reorganization/Dissolution to the SIS
  SOP.
• Attachment D SIS Listserv Discussion Group
  Formation/Dissolution to the SIS SOP.
• revised SIS SOP.

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Report of the Bylaws, Policies and Procedures
Committee (BPPC)

• revised Attachment F Nomination Form to the
  Nominating Committee SOP.
• revision of Attachment F Internal Document
  Evaluation Checklist to the Administrative SOP.
• revised OTA Representative and Alternate
  Representative JD.
• revised Attachment A Occupational Therapy
  Assistant Nomination Form to the OTA
  Representative and Alternate Representative JD.

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Report of the Bylaws, Policies and Procedures
Committee (BPPC)

• the amendments in Article IV (Meetings of the
  Membership of the Association).
• the amendments in Article V (Board of Directors).
• the amendments in Article VI (Officers of the
  Association).
• the amendments in Article VII (Representative
  Assembly).
• the amendments in Article VIII (Officials of the
  Representative Assembly).
• the amendments in Article X (Election-Area
  Affiliates).
• the amendments in Article XI (World Federation of
  Occupational Therapists-Delegates).
• the amendments in Article XII (Administrative
  Procedures for All Elected or Appointed
  Positions).
• the amendments in Article XVII (Amendments to
  Bylaws).

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Report of the Bylaws, Policies and Procedures
Committee (BPPC)

• BPPC present the amendments to the Bylaws to the
  membership for a vote at the 2007 Annual Business
  Meeting on April 22, 2007.
• With the proviso that the proposed Bylaws
  amendments pass at the 2007 Annual Business
  Meeting, I move to adopt the revised Policy 1.50
  Organizational Advisors.
• adopt the revised Policy 1.9 Open Meetings.
• adopt the Glossary to the Bylaws.
• rescind Policy 3.4 Education of Occupational
  Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants.
• rescind Policy 3.8 Support of Graduate Education.
• adopt the new policy, Education of Occupational
  Therapy Practitioners.
• Motion Pending approval of the 2007 proposed
  Bylaws amendments at the 2007 Annual Business
  Meeting in St. Louis, I move to adopt the RALT
  SOP.

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Report of the President

• B1, Motion 1.

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Report of the President

• I move to charge the President to direct the
  Executive Director to insert language into the
  Model Practice Act that will assist state
  legislators and regulatory bodies to clarify that
  occupational therapists and occupational therapy
  assistants providing services outside of the
  scope of occupational therapy practice who use
  their professional titles and designations will
  not be in violation of state occupational therapy
  practice acts. Subject to Board approval, the
  suggested language would be inserted as a new
  section into Article III (specifically 3.12
  Titles and Designations) and is as follow

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Report of the President

• 3.12 Titles and Designations
• (1) a licensed occupational therapist may use the
  words occupational therapist, licensed
  occupational therapist, or any words, title,
  letters, or other appropriate designation,
  including OT and OT/L, that identifies the person
  as a licensed occupational therapist in
  connection with
• (a) his or her name or place of business and
• (b) any activity, practice or service, so long as
  he or she is at all times in conformance with the
  requirements of this act when providing
  occupational therapy services.

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Report of the President

• (2) A licensed occupational therapy assistant may
  use the words occupational therapy assistant,
  licensed occupational therapy assistant, or any
  word, title, letters, or other appropriate
  designation, including OTA or OTA/L, that
  identifies the person as a licensed occupational
  therapy assistant in connection with
• (a) his or her name or place of business and
• (b) any activity, practice or service, so, long
  as he or she is at all times in conformance with
  the requirements of this act when providing
  occupational therapy services.

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Report of the Elect Positions and Governance
Transition Ad Hoc Committee

• B, Motion Approve Recommendations in the report.

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Report of the Elect Positions and Governance
Transition Ad Hoc Committee

• Motion 1 On behalf of the Elect Position and
  Governance Transition ad hoc committee, I charge
  BPPC to incorporate into job descriptions
  language related to orientation and transitional
  support of new office holders as a responsibility
  of outgoing volunteer leadership with a report
  back to the 2007 RA Online Meeting.
• Motion 2 On behalf of the Elect Position and
  Governance Transition ad hoc committee, I move to
  charge BPPC to prepare Bylaws amendments to
  change the assumption of office for nationally
  elected volunteer positions to begin on July 1. I
  further charge BPPC to present these amendments
  to the membership for a vote at the 2007 Annual
  Business Meeting.

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Report of the Elect Positions and Governance
Transition Ad Hoc Committee

• Motion 3 On behalf of the Elect Position and
  Governance Transition ad hoc committee, I move to
  discontinue the AOTA Treasurer-Elect position
  effective with the next election cycle. I further
  charge BPPC to prepare Bylaws amendments and
  present these amendments to the membership for a
  vote at the 2007 Annual Business Meeting.
• Motion 4 On behalf of the Elect Position and
  Governance Transition ad hoc committee, I move to
  charge the President to request that the
  Executive Director designate AOTA staff support
  for the President-Elect position effective with
  the next election cycle.

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Report of the Elect Positions and Governance
Transition Ad Hoc Committee

• Motion 5 On behalf of the Elect Position and
  Governance Transition ad hoc committee, I move to
  charge the President to establish an ad hoc
  committee to examine past and present Association
  leadership training for effectiveness as
  mechanisms for leadership preparation, governance
  transition, and networking support. The ad hoc
  committee will explore leadership and Association
  needs as well as external leadership development
  strategies and methods for possible use for
  future volunteer leadership training. An interim
  report will be provided to the 2007 RA online
  meeting, with the final report and
  recommendations for future renewed leadership
  training presented to the 2008 RA face-to-face
  meeting.

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Report of the Evaluation and Governance
Restructuring Ad Hoc Committee

• This report and recommendations are not yet
  available.

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Report of the Speaker of the OTA Representatives
Roles and Function in the Representative Assembly
Ad Hoc Committee

• B, Motion

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Report of the Speaker of the OTA Representatives
Roles and Function in the Representative Assembly
Ad Hoc Committee

• Recommendations
• On behalf of the Speaker of the OTA
  Representatives Roles and Functions in the
  Assembly Ad Hoc Committee, I charge the BPPC to
  prepare Bylaws amendments to incorporate language
  on the OTA Representatives term of office. I
  further charge BPPC to present these amendments
  to the membership for a vote at the 2007 Annual
  Business Meeting.
• On behalf of the Speaker of the OTA
  Representatives Roles and Functions in the
  Assembly Ad Hoc Committee, I move the Speaker
  charge the OTA Representative to the Assembly to
  write an annual report to the face-to-face
  Assembly meeting beginning in 2008.

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Proposed New Business

• The following item(s) are proposed new business
  motions for the 2007 RA. At the RA meeting, these
  will first need to be voted on as to whether they
  will be placed on an Agenda.

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Proposed New BusinessPosition Paper on
Universal Design and Occupational Performance

• MOTION We move that the Representative Assembly
  (RA) Speaker, with recommendations from the
  President, charge the Commission on Practice to
  establish a task group to develop a
  professionally published document that identifies
  the value and role of occupational therapists and
  occupational therapy assistants in collaborating
  with government, health care, and building
  industry professionals in designing new
  residential communities, home modification
  programs, and legislation /incentives to
  facilitate the incorporation of the Principles of
  Universal Design to promote occupational
  performance.

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Proposed New BusinessPosition Paper on
Universal Design and Occupational Performance

• RATIONALE
• AOTAs Centennial Vision resulted from our
  changing sociopolitical climate and focus on
  emerging trends in occupational therapy practice
  so that the profession of occupational therapy
  will thrive in the future. Nearly all of the
  stated emerging areas that guide the Centennial
  Vision relate in some way to Universal Design,
  yet we as a profession do not have any AOTA
  documents supporting our belief in these
  principles. We must acknowledge the importance of
  and support the Principles of Universal Design to
  promote inclusion and participation of all
  individuals in society.

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AOT-PACYour Voice for OT in Washington

• AOTA goals for the next 10 years leading to the
  Centennial Vision include increasing the power
  and influence of occupational therapy.
• AOTPAC supports both the education of legislators
  on issues important to OT, and the campaigns of
  OT-friendly candidates. 
• 96 of the candidates supported in 2006 won their
  elections. 

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AOT-PACYour Voice for OT in Washington

• AOTPAC had a record breaking year in 2006,
  raising 225,000.
• The APTA PAC raised 633,842.  Their causes do
  not always have occupational therapy interests in
  mind.

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AOT-PACYour Voice for OT in Washington

• Many other professions are working to expand
  their scope of practice into areas that can
  compete with OT.
• If decision makers do not understand the unique
  contribution of OT, we could be left behind when
  difficult spending cuts are made.

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AOT-PACYour Voice for OT in Washington

• Lobbyists promote the concerns of their
  clients--many programs are worthwhile, but
  choices have to be made.
• AOTA has two lobbyists--working toward 2.5.
• APTA has 3.5 lobbyists.

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AOT-PACYour Voice for OT in Washington

• By comparison, River Pilots on the Mississippi
  River have 32 lobbyists and defeated proposed
  legislation to open the work to others.

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AOT-PACYour Voice for OT in Washington

• By law, AOTA dues cannot support political
  candidates.
• Only money raised by AOTPAC, from AOTA members
  can be used.
• AOTPAC supports federal candidates, who vote on
  federal issues and federal funding.

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AOT-PACYour Voice for OT in Washington

• Members consistently say they want a strong
  political advocacy presence for OT.
• Fewer than 15 of AOTA members contribute to
  AOTPAC.
• AOTA has 38,000 members--if each member donated
  just 10, it would raise 380,000 for political
  action that supports our profession.

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How can YOU Help AOT-PAC?

• Contribute to AOTPAC.
• Vote.
• Talk to your elected officials about occupational
  therapy.
• Be a member of AOTA and MiOTA.
• Encourage others to participate.

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www.AOTA.org ? Governance ? RA

• Send forms to
• Claudette Stork Reid
• 1524 Dogwood Dr.
• Portage MI 49024
• Fax [phone]

The Michigan Occupational Therapy Association
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The Michigan Occupational Therapy Association