1. General

Occupational therapy is medically prescribed treatment concerned with improving or restoring functions which have been impaired by illness or injury or, where function has been permanently lost or reduced by illness or injury, to improve the individual's ability to perform those tasks required for independent functioning. Such therapy may involve:

a. the evaluation, and reevaluation as required, of a patient's level of function by administering diagnostic and prognostic tests;

b. the selection and teaching of task oriented therapeutic activities designed to restore physical function;

c. the planning, implementing, and supervising of individualized therapeutic activity programs as part of an overall “active treatment” program for a patient with a diagnosed psychiatric illness;

d. the planning and implementing of therapeutic tasks and activities to restore sensory-integrative function;

e. the teaching of compensatory technique to improve the level of independence in the activities of daily living;

f. the designing, fabricating, and fitting of orthotic and self-help devices; and

g. vocational and prevocational assessment and training.