Oklahoma § 59-888.3 - Definitions

§ 59-888.3. Definitions

As used in the Occupational Therapy Practice Act:

1. "Occupational therapy" is a health profession for which

practitioners provide assessment, treatment, and consultation

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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 and motor skills, and sensory

integrative function, and to adapt the environment for the

handicapped. These services are provided individually, in groups,

via telehealth or through social systems;

2. "Occupational therapist" means a person licensed to practice

occupational therapy pursuant to the provisions of the Occupational

Therapy Practice Act;

3. "Occupational therapy assistant" means a person licensed to

provide occupational therapy treatment under the general supervision

of a licensed occupational therapist;

4. "Occupational therapy aide" means a person who assists in

the practice of occupational therapy and whose activities require an

understanding of occupational therapy, but do not require the

technical or professional training of an occupational therapist or

occupational therapy assistant;

5. "Board" means the State Board of Medical Licensure and

Supervision;

6. "Person" means any individual, partnership, unincorporated

organization, or corporate body, except only an individual may be

licensed pursuant to the provisions of the Occupational Therapy

Practice Act;

7. "Committee" means the Oklahoma Occupational Therapy Advisory

Committee;

8. "Telehealth" means the use of electronic information and

telecommunications technologies to support and promote access to

clinical health care, patient and professional health-related

education, public health and health administration; and

9. "Telerehabilitation" or "teletherapy" means the delivery of

rehabilitation and habilitation services via information and

communication technologies (ICT), also commonly referred to as

"telehealth" technologies.

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Added by Laws 1984, c. 119, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1984. Amended by Laws

1987, c. 118, § 46, operative July 1, 1987; Laws 2019, c. 383, § 1,

eff. Nov. 1, 2019.