Section 90. General responsibilities

Part IV. Practice of Occupational Therapy

A. An occupational therapist renders services of assessment, program planning, and therapeutic treatment upon request for such service. The practice of occupational therapy includes therapeutic use of occupations for habilitation and rehabilitation to enhance physical health, mental health, and cognitive functioning. The practice of occupational therapy may include supervisory, administrative, educational or consultative activities or responsibilities for the delivery of such services.

B. An occupational therapy assistant renders services under the supervision of an occupational therapist that do not require the clinical decision or specific knowledge, skills and judgment of a licensed occupational therapist and do not include the discretionary aspects of the initial assessment, evaluation or development of a treatment plan for a patient.

Historical Notes

Derived from VR465-08-1 § 4.1, eff. January 31, 1991; amended, Volume 10, Issue 09, eff. February 23, 1994; Volume 19, Issue 01, eff. October 23, 2002; Volume 26, Issue 11, eff. March 3, 2010; Volume 29, Issue 01, eff. October 10, 2012.

Statutory Authority

§ 54.1-2400 of the Code of Virginia.