As used in the Occupational Therapy Practice Act:
1. "Occupational therapy" is a health profession for which practitioners provide assessment, treatment, and consultation 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.
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.