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Occupational Therapy Assistant

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St. Kate’s two-year OTA program will educate you to become a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) and enter a career where you’ll work closely with individuals to find creative solutions that contribute to their physical, psychological and spiritual well-being.

Occupational Therapy: Living life to its fullest

Under the direction of and in collaboration with occupational therapists, COTAs help people to accomplish what they need to do and love to do – their human occupations and avocations — despite physical, mental or emotional limitations.

You might work with someone who has had a stroke to experience an activity like fishing or gardening, teach a patient with a spinal cord injury new ways to make meals, show an elderly person how to use assistive devices so she can live and function independently or work with a child to improve sense of balance.

With a career in occupational therapy, you have unlimited potential to touch people’s lives.