ACOTE Standards Revision Comment: ACOTEStandardsRevisionComments
Dear Disabled OT Professionals, Students & Allies:
The Network of OT Practitioners with Disabilities and Supporters (NOTPD) urges all disabled professionals, students, and allies to comment on the ACOTE Standards proposed revisions. Now is our chance to get disability and inclusion of students with disabilities recognized in the OT profession and education. It is a chance to change the accrediting standards to require support and inclusion and provide a mechanism for enforcing the standards. Special thanks to Lynn Swedberg for her research and advocacy to help me pull together this document that can serve as recommended comments for submission. All OTs, OTAs, and students can submit comments. Now is our chance to improve access and inclusion for disabled students and professionals in the OT profession for years to come. This is an urgent request as comments must be received on or before MONDAY, APRIL 10TH, 2023. See attached recommendations that can be emailed to: accred@aota.org or you can submit and online form.
From ACOTE:
The Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE®) is inviting comment from all communities of interest regarding the first draft of the revised ACOTE Accreditation Standards for a Doctoral-Degree-Level Educational Program for the Occupational Therapist, Accreditation Standards for a Master’s-Degree-Level Educational Program for the Occupational Therapist, Accreditation Standards for a Baccalaureate-Degree-Level Occupational Therapy Assistant, and the Accreditation Standards for an Associate-Degree-Level Educational Program for the Occupational Therapy Assistant.
The draft Standards are available on the ACOTE Accreditation section of the ACOTE website. https://acoteonline.org/download/5319/?tmstv=1678195214
To submit a comment, please take our Web-based survey. https://forms.aota.org/forms/drafti_call_for_comment_2023
Additional comment is invited at a Standards Open Hearing in Kansas City, Missouri, in conjunction with AOTA INSPIRE 2023. Educational Standards Review Committee representatives will be presenting highlights of Draft I of the revised Standards. Based on comments from the communities of interest, the draft Standards will undergo further revision. All interested parties are invited to attend the following hearing: Friday, April 21, 2023 (1:00pm–2:30pm) Loews Kansas City Hotel 1515 Wyandotte Street Kansas City, MO 64108 Room: City Beautiful C
Comment may also be provided by e-mail to accred@aota.org.
ALL SURVEYS MUST BE SUBMITTED ON OR BEFORE APRIL 10, 2023.
PLEASE SEE THE FOLLOWING DRAFT COMMENTS THAT YOU CAN EMAIL TO: accred@aota.org
ACOTEStandardsRevisionComments
PLEASE CC: NOTPD at wheeldogs@yahoo.com and Lynn Swedberg at lmswedberg@comcast.com SO WE CAN FOLLOW UP ON SUBMITTED COMMENTS WITH ACOTE. THANK YOU!!!
In advocacy,
Sandy Hanebrink, OTR/L, CLP, FAOTA, PLY
NOTPD Chair
Lynn Swedberg, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA
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