Occupational Therapy Newsletter, AOTA, 1979 - 1986

File — Box: 6

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: 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.