Practice

Social Media Spotlight
How do you infuse
OCCUPATION
into your daily practice?
We asked our friends on social media to
share practice-based examples.
Send yours to promotions@aota.org.
Advocating for OT
Last month, AOTA staff and members advocated for OT at the
national conventions. It’s an opportunity to interact with policymakers
outside the traditional D.C. setting. Check out what they
were up to:
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Working in public
schools, I work with students
doing community
integration during the
school day. We grocery
shop, practice community
navigation, bowling,
Zumba—whatever is
meaningful to my students.—Erin
Villanueva
Some of the cabinet
doors in our ADL apartment
were getting loose.
What better activity for
our retired contractor
patient than to grab a
screwdriver and tighten
them for us!
—Kara Vautour
3 4
Today we had a patient
who used to be a hairdresser
French Braid two
therapists’ hair.
—Kainaan Nelson
I had a 99-year-old vet
reach up to the top shelf
in his closet to retrieve
his WWII hats so he
could show them to me.
—Ruth Blameuser
5
OT Connections
— A prospective student asks whether she is too old
at age 35 to become an OT. See the inspirational
reactions. www.aota.org/otc/nontraditional-student
— Have you seen the new OT evaluation CPT codes?
Your colleagues are discussing how the codes might
affect OT practice. www.aota.org/otc/new-codes
— An AOTA member is starting a private practice and
has questions about billing Medicare and private
insurance. Can you help them out? www.aota.org/
otc/private-billing
11. AOTA President Amy Lamb
met with Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell (KY)
at the Republican National
Convention in Cleveland.
2. Chris Metzler, AOTA’s chief
public affairs officer, spoke
about the Americans with
Disabilities Act at the Democratic
National Convention in
Philadelphia.
3. Heather Parsons, AOTA’s
director of Federal Affairs,
met with OT champions
Representative Paul Tonko
(NY) and Senators Ben Cardin
(MD) and Brian Schatz (HI) at
the DNC.
4. 4 AOTA members Wendy
Fox and Paula Kramer and
AOTAPAC Chair Yvonne Randall
attend a lunch in support
of the Achieving a Better Life
Experience (ABLE) act.
5. 5 Barbara Glauser, AOTA
member, John Ray, AOTA’s
legislative representative, and
Amy Lamb met with Representative
Glenn Thompson
(PA) at the RNC.
PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF CHRISTINA METZLER (1, 4),
HEATHER PARSONS (2, 3), PENNY AMMERMAN-THOMPSON/AMY LAMB (5).
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