The Occupational Therapist specialty is generally very female-friendly with a large majority (89%) of providers reporting as female compared to only 10% reporting as male. People living in New York, Texas, Florida, California, and Pennsylvania enjoy living in one of the 5 most popular states/territories where Occupational Therapist providers practice. In all, there are 83,632 registered Occupational Therapist providers in the United States with over 7,021 of those located in New York alone while around 5,324 chose to practice in Texas.
Occupational Therapist providers have been assigned the 225X00000X taxonomy code in the NPI registry, which is a Level II Classification. Click here for more information about medical specialty types.
Overall, Occupational Therapist specialists practice in 56 different states/territories and can be categorized into 12 different Occupational Therapist sub-specialties: Driving and Community Mobility, Environmental Modification , Ergonomics, Feeding, Eating & Swallowing, Gerontology, Hand, Human Factors, Low Vision, Mental Health, Neurorehabilitation, and Pediatrics, among others.
An occupational therapist is a person who has graduated from an entry-level occupational therapy program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) or predecessor organizations, or approved by the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT), or an equivalent international occupational therapy education program; has successfully completed a period of supervised fieldwork experience required by the occupational therapy program; has passed a nationally recognized entry-level examination for occupational therapists, and fulfills state requirements for licensure, certification, or registration. An occupational therapist provides interventions based on evaluation and which emphasize the therapeutic use of everyday life activities (i.e., occupations) with individuals or groups for the purpose of facilitating participation in roles and situations and in home, school, workplace, community and other settings. Occupational therapy services are provid