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Series I: American Occupational Therapy Association, 1928 - 1999

 Series

Scope and Contents

The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) was started in 1917 under the name The National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy, Inc. The name was changed in 1921. This series includes a number of official publications of the Association, including copies of Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation (1928-1939), and of the Newsletter of the American Occupational Therapy Association (most of the holdings are from the early fifties and from 1977-1980, but there are scattered holdings for other years, 1944-1986). Also in the series is the 1937 AOTA Study Committee publication Journal of Occupational Therapy as well as copies of OT Week, the Association's. weekly newsmagazine (which changed its name to AOTA's OT Week in 1998), dating from 1996-1999. The collection contains many of the AOTA annual conference programs for the years 1982-1998. Of note in the collection are "American Occupational Therapy Association then-and now," a brief history of the Association published in 1967, a guide to the Archives of AOTA, which was published ca.1983, and the twenty-five year cumulative index of The American Joumal of Occupational Therapy published in 1971. This series also contains the newsletters for a number of AOTA Special Interest Sections dating from 1985 to 1989.

Dates

  • 1928 - 1999

Extent

From the Collection: 16 Linear Feet (29 boxes)

Language

English

Additional Description

Related Materials

Publications arising from AOTA sponsored activities appear in a number of other series within the collection.

Series IV includes a report from an AOTA workshop on occupational therapy education from 1969 and 3 1981 audiotapes from the AOTA Faculty Development Series.

Series V contains materials about occupational therapy as a profession. Many of these items were published by the AOTA.

Series IX contains a 1979 AOTA Specialty Section monograph on developmental disabilities, and AOTA generated materials on occupational therapy and schools, ca.1970-1980.

Series X includes a bibliographx of research grants awarded by AOTA from 1948-1983 and a 1958 AOTA publication that delineates the functions of occupational therapists for all major diagnostic groups served.

Series XI contains six publications of the AOTA Practice Division (from 1980-1981) covering such topics as arthritis, stroke, home health, hospice and consultation. These publications contain a variety of resources, including bibliographies and outlines. Also in series XI are the 1986 hospice guidelines produced by the AOTA Hospice Task Force, a 1982 Division of Professional Development publication on independent living and a 1983 publication on the theoretical roots of practice.

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Thomas Jefferson University - Archives and Special Collections Repository

http://library.jefferson.edu/archives/
Contact:
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Room 401, Scott Memorial Library
Philadelphia PA 19107-5587