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92_SB0527

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning the regulation of professions.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.  The  Illinois  Occupational Therapy Practice
 5    Act is amended by changing Section 2 as follows:

 6        (225 ILCS 75/2) (from Ch. 111, par. 3702)
 7        Sec. 2.  In this Act:
 8        (1)  "Department" means the  Department  of  Professional
 9    Regulation.
10        (2)  "Director"   means   the  Director  of  Professional
11    Regulation.
12        (3)  "Board"  means  the  Illinois  Occupational  Therapy
13    Board appointed by the Director.
14        (4)  "Registered Occupational Therapist" means  a  person
15    licensed  to practice occupational therapy as defined in this
16    Act, and whose license is in good standing.
17        (5)  "Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant"  means  a
18    person  licensed  to  assist  in the practice of occupational
19    therapy under the supervision of  a  Registered  Occupational
20    Therapist,   and   to   implement  the  occupational  therapy
21    treatment  program   as   established   by   the   Registered
22    Occupational Therapist.  Such program may include training in
23    activities  of  daily living, the use of therapeutic activity
24    including  task  oriented  activity  to  enhance   functional
25    performance,  and  guidance  in  the  selection  and  use  of
26    adaptive equipment.
27        (6)  "Occupational   Therapy"  means  the  evaluation  of
28    functional  performance  ability  of  persons   impaired   by
29    physical illness or injury, emotional disorder, congenital or
30    developmental  disability,  or  the  aging  process,  and the
31    analysis, selection and application of  occupations  or  goal
 
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 1    directed activities, for the treatment or prevention of these
 2    disabilities  to  achieve  optimum functioning.  Occupational
 3    therapy services include, but are not limited  to  activities
 4    of daily living (ADL); the design fabrication and application
 5    or splints, administration and interpretation of standardized
 6    tests   to  identify  dysfunctions,  sensory-integrative  and
 7    perceptual  motor  activities,  the  use  of  task   oriented
 8    activities,  guidance  in  the selection and use of assistive
 9    devices, goal oriented activities directed  toward  enhancing
10    functional    performance,   prevocational   evaluation   and
11    vocational training, and consultation in  the  adaptation  of
12    physical  environments  for  the handicapped.  These services
13    are  provided  to  individuals  or  groups  through  medical,
14    health, educational,  and  social  systems.  An  occupational
15    therapist  may  evaluate a person but shall obtain a referral
16    by  a  physician   or   optometrist   before   treatment   is
17    administered  by  the occupational therapist. An occupational
18    therapist shall  refer  to  a  licensed  physician,  dentist,
19    optometrist,   or   podiatrist   any  patient  whose  medical
20    condition should, at the time of evaluation or treatment,  be
21    determined  to  be  beyond  the  scope  of  practice  of  the
22    occupational therapist.
23    (Source: P.A. 88-424.)

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