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AOTA is the state organization who provides the “C” in a persons COTA credential. 

The Platt College OTA Program’s scholarship agenda is:

Theory & Frames of Reference    The COTA teaches the client how to use the Zones of Regulation to decrease maladaptive behaviors.

Intervention Approaches   The COTA uses work conditioning after a client was injured at work.  

An OT practitioner should choose one frame of reference

Theory & Frames of Reference  An OT practitioner has to use many models of practice during his intervention processes.

The COTA took Spanish in high school and learned more by working a job at a restaurant prior to OT school.  She has an older client who immigrated from Chile.  The COTA is confused by the client’s offended look every morning when she greets him with Como Estas (how are you, Spanish 2nd person singular). Which of the following represents her therapeutic use of self?

The COTA is working with a child to decrease the child’s aversion to a wide variety of tactile sensations (tactile defensiveness) such as grass, rough fabrics, food textures etc.  The OTR usually has him play with toys in shaving cream.  The COTA himself greatly dislikes the feel of shaving cream.  Which of the following represents his therapeutic use of self

The COTA is informed by his manager that he has to see a client for 60 minutes of therapy.  The client is in a vegetative state and not able to understand what is happening or to participate in the treatment.  The COTA does not believe that service would be skilled or necessary. What concepts can he use to explain why he cannot comply

The OTR asks the COTA to perform a standardized assessment he has never used and to write up the evaluation.  What is the correct action