Occupational Therapy Week,

25 - 29 October 2010

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS: enabling maximum potential

Key Messages

  1. Occupational therapists: integral to the team - Maximise this opportunity to improve the understanding of the purpose and value of occupational therapy, amongst your work colleagues.
  2. Occupational therapy: the difference between life and living - Help the public to understand what occupational therapists do, and when/how they might use one.
  3. Occupational therapists: united around the world - World Occupational Therapy Day (27 October) marks the unity and solidarity of the occupational therapy community from 66 countries around the world.  Commemorate the important contribution of occupational therapists to the health and wellbeing of millions of people around the planet.

Ideas for celebrating occupational therapy week

For ideas on how to different events that you can organise during occupational therapy week download our guide (pdf) here

Resources

 

Resources (e.g. toolkit, posters, bookmarks and stickers) have been developed to help you make Occupational Therapy week a success. More details on the resources and how to download them are given in the following (members only) section.

 

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Photos of events

Please take plenty of photos of any displays or events that you organise for occupational therapy week. Send them, along with a brief report on what you did and who was involved, to dael@nzaot.com

 

World Occupational Therapy Day,

27 October 2010

Celebrate World Occupational Therapy Day by attending the first-ever global virtual occupational therapy exchange - organised by members of the OT4OT (online technology for occupational therapy) group and sponsored by Otago Polytechnic.

For further information

OT4OT World Occupational Therapy Day web link