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-