Promoting awareness, advocating professional development and assuring the viability of occupational therapy.

"..The art and science of directing man's participation in selected tasks to restore, reinforce, and enhance performance, facilitate learning of those skills and functions that are essential for adaptation and productivity, diminish or correct pathology, and to promote and maintain health.  Its fundamental concern is the development and maintenance of capacity throughout the life span, to perform with satisfaction to self and others. Those tasks and roles essential to productive living and to the mastery of self and environment."

-American Occupational Therapy Association-