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OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT
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1. Applicants are responsible for submitting all the necessary records to the admissions of ce.
2. Applications must be updated annually by applicants who were not accepted the previous year.
3. Applicants may take non-occupational therapy assistant, general education and related coursework prior to being accepted into the program.
4. All students admitted into the OTA program will be required to submit to a criminal background check and drug testing each academic year. The results of these tests could affect the student’s ability to progress in the program. Additional testing may be required by facilities in which the students are completing eldwork education.
5. All students’ completing a health science program may be required, by an external testing agency, to submit to a criminal background check and/or drug test prior to a state or national licensing/certi cation board approving the graduation to sit for the licensure /certi cation exams.
6. All Students are required to complete clinical eldwork education. Many of these sites may require the student to relocate or travel extensively for this part of the program. All expenses are the student’s responsibility.
FACULTY
Anna Maria Holder Walls, Program Coordinator a_walls@southwesterncc.edu
828.339.4334 or 800.447.4091, ext. 4334
Peggy Vos, Clinical Coordinator
m_vos@southwesterncc.edu 828.339.4254 or 800.447.4091, ext. 4254
2019-20 Catalog