Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4755 - Ohio Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy Board, and Athletic Trainers Board › Chapter 4755-7 - Limited Permit Holders and Occupational Therapy Assistants; Conduct of Licensees › Section 4755-7-01 - Occupational therapy practice defined

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
For the purpose of Chapters 4755-1 to 4755-9 of the
				Administrative Code, the following definitions must
				apply:
(A) "Occupational therapist"
			 means a person who is licensed to practice occupational therapy and who offers
			 such services to the public under any title incorporating the words
			 "occupational therapy," "occupational therapist," or similar title or
			 description of services.
(B)
			 "Occupational therapy assistant" means a person who holds a license to provide
			 occupational therapy techniques under the general supervision of an
			 occupational therapist.
(C)
			 "Student occupational therapist" means a student enrolled in an accredited or
			 candidacy status entry-level occupational therapist education program or a
			 student enrolled in a "World Federation of Occupational Therapy" accredited
			 entry-level occupational therapist education program. Effective January 1, 2021, a student occupational therapist
			 must be at least eighteen years old to participate in learning opportunities
			 outside the classroom involving clients.
(D) "Student occupational therapy assistant"
			 means a student enrolled in an accredited or candidacy status entry-level
			 occupational therapy assistant education program. Effective January 1, 2021, a student occupational therapy
			 assistant must be at least eighteen years old to participate in learning
			 opportunities outside the classroom involving clients.
(E) "Level I fieldwork" means the
			 introductory fieldwork experiences that are a component of an educational
			 program in occupational therapy in which students develop a basic understanding
			 of the needs of clients through directed observation and supervised
			 participation in the occupational therapy process.
(F) "Level II fieldwork" means the in-depth
			 fieldwork experiences that are a component of an educational program in
			 occupational therapy that provide multiple occupational therapy services to a
			 variety of clients in multiple settings.
(G) "Unlicensed personnel" means any person
			 who is on the job trained and supports the delivery of occupational therapy
			 services by personally assisting the occupational therapist, occupational
			 therapy assistant, student occupational therapist, and/or student occupational
			 therapy assistant while the occupational therapist, occupational therapy
			 assistant, student occupational therapist, and/or student occupational therapy
			 assistant is concurrently providing services to the same client.
(H) "Supervising occupational therapist"
			 means the occupational therapist who is available to supervise the occupational
			 therapy assistant, the student occupational therapist, student occupational
			 therapy assistant, or unlicensed personnel. The supervising occupational
			 therapist may be the occupational therapist who performed the initial
			 evaluation or another occupational therapist with whom that occupational
			 therapist has a documented agreement.
(I) "Supervising occupational therapy
			 assistant" means the occupational therapy assistant who is appropriately
			 available to supervise the student occupational therapy assistant, the student
			 occupational therapist who is completing the level I fieldwork experience, or
			 unlicensed personnel.