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SB527 Engrossed                                LRB9204908LBgc

 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
 
SB527 Engrossed             -2-                LRB9204908LBgc
 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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