The primary focus of occupational therapy is the development of a person's adaptive skills and performance capacity. Its concern is with a person's ability to function in meaningful daily life activities or occupations which are those factors which promote, influence or enhance such function, as well as those which serve as barriers or impediments. Mindful of this concern, the School of Occupational Therapy is committed to establishing an optimal learning environment which involves full participation of faculty, students and community in a dynamic interchange of ideas, concepts and actions. The results will produce individuals who, through use of creative problem solving based on sound critical reasoning, will become active and effective agents of change, well grounded in ethics and values necessary to serve society and to achieve fulfillment in an ever-changing environment. This mission is dependent upon the collaboration of faculty, students and community in facilitating optimal learning.
Life demands right action if knowledge is to come alive.