OTA Program Philosophy and Outcomes

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OTA Program Mission:

The Sinclair Community College Occupational Therapy Assistant Program provides high quality, innovative, and evidence-based occupational therapy education to individuals seeking the opportunity to practice as an Occupational Therapy Assistant facilitating participation in life activities thus improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of clients and the community.

Philosophy:

The OTA Program at SCC operates on the following beliefs:

• All people have value.
• Every person has the right to engage in meaningful occupations of their choice.
• Occupational performance is a unique experience that results from the transactional relationship among the person, activity, and the context.
• Every person benefits from participation in occupation.
• Occupational Therapy utilizes meaningful occupations to create, promote, remediate, restore, maintain, modify, and prevent deficits in occupational performance to achieve the outcome of health, well-being and participation in life.
• People learn and develop through participation in occupation as it occurs in context.

Goals and Outcomes:

Goal 1 (G1):  Associate of Applied Science degree in Occupational Therapy Assistant

• Goal 1/Outcome 1 (G1.1) Students will earn an Associate of Applied Science degree in Occupational Therapy Assistant, demonstrating readiness to successfully pass the National Certification Exam in order to obtain employment as an OTA.

Goal 2 (G2):  Appreciation of Every Human

• Goal 2/Outcome 2 (G2.2) Students will demonstrate knowledge of the role of an individual’s sociocultural background on influencing choice of and participation in meaningful activities.

Goal 3 (G3):  Ethical, Professional Behaviors

• Goal 3/Outcome 3 (G3.3) Students will demonstrate attitudes and behaviors congruent with the occupational therapy profession’s philosophy, standards and the OT Code of Ethics.
• Goal 3/Outcome 4 (G3.4) Students will participate in a minimum of 4 inter-professional education experiences throughout the program. 
• Goal 3/Outcome 5 (G3.5) Students will effectively use Occupational Therapy Practice Framework language, technology, professional literature and evidence-based research to make informed practice decisions and to communicate in a professional manner.

Goal 4 (G4):  Recognition of the value of occupations

• Goal 4/Outcome 6 (G4.6) Students will select appropriate and meaningful activities and/or occupations as a means of addressing occupational performance, prevention, health and wellness, quality of life, occupational participation, role competence, well-being and/or occupational justice. 

Goal 5 (G5):  Entry-level OTA Skills

• Goal 5/Outcome 7 (G5.7) Students will demonstrate the ability to deliver occupational therapy services at OTA entry-level competency under the supervision of an Occupational Therapist (OT) in a variety of settings. 

Outcomes:

Program results from the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) can be found online at School Performance (nbcot.org)