(a) Fieldwork means a supervised clinical experience of a minimum of six (6) months for occupational therapists, and a minimum of three (3) months for Occupational Therapy Assistants, as arranged by the educational institution granting the degree.

(b) Occupational therapy means the evaluation and treatment provided to people whose lives have been disrupted by physical injury, illness, developmental problems, the aging process, or psychosocial or cognitive difficulties.

(1) Treatment entails the assessment, evaluation
and treatment to assist each individual to achieve or return to an independent and productive life through
techniques which prevent disability, assisting the
individual in recovery from illness or accident and by promoting the development of functions which may have been impaired or delayed.

(2) The treatment provided may include, but shall not be limited to, the adaptation of the environment and

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the selection, design and fabrication of assistive and orthotic devices, and other technology to facilitate development and promote the acquisition of functional skills through purposeful activity.

(c) Occupational therapist means a person licensed to practice occupational therapy on Guam.

(d) Occupational therapy assistant means a person licensed to assist in the practice of occupational therapy who works under the indirect supervision of an occupational therapist, or as otherwise determined by the supervising occupational therapist.

(e) Occupational therapy technician/aide means a person who can assist in treatment oriented activities, under the direct supervision and presence of an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant, and whose activities require a general understanding of occupational therapy services acquired on-the-job.

(f) NBCOT means the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy.

2017 NOTE: Subitem designations added pursuant to the authority of 1
GCA § 1606.

§ 121402. Qualifications for Licensure; Occupational
Therapist.

(a) Educational Requirements. Applicants shall present satisfactory evidence to the Board of having successfully completed academic and fieldwork experience requirements in an occupational therapy educational program recognized by the Board. The occupational therapy educational program shall be accredited by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education of the American Occupational Therapy Association or the current governing board. The applicant must also:

(1) possess at least a bachelor’s degree or certificate in occupational therapy from the U.S. or from a foreign program recognized by the NBCOT; and

(2) submit transcripts from an approved school of occupational therapy in the U.S., or from a foreign program

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recognized by the NBCOT, unless already submitted to a government of Guam health agency.

(b) Fieldwork Experience. Applicants shall submit to the Board evidence of having successfully completed a period of supervised fieldwork experience arranged by the recognized educational institution or by the nationally recognized professional association where the applicant has met the academic requirements. Occupational therapists must have a minimum of six (6) months or nine hundred forty (940) hours of supervised fieldwork experience.