It's specialized graduate degree course in occupational therapy which is offered by various medical institutes. This programme prepares professional therapists who help people with mental or physical disabilities in achieving maximum functioning and independence at home and at the workplace. People affected by physical or mental injury, illness by ageing process,needs to develop special skills for performing normal acts so as to sustain themselves without being a burden on any other individual. The treatment is normally given in consultation with physicians, physical therapists and rehabilitation workers involved in patient care. Occupational therapists are also involved in technological project works in designing new equipments for treatment and standardizing existing therapeutic systems besides being educators and trainers.
Some of the National Level Institutes offering BOT are
1. The National Institute for
Rehabilitation Training and Research, Olatpur P.O. Bairoi, Cuttack dist.
2. National Institute for the Orthopaedically Handicapped, Bonhooghly, BT Road,
Calcutta 700090.
3. Institute of Physically Handicapped, 4 Vishnu Digamber Marg, NewDelhi
110002.
Rehabilitation Council, 4 Vishnu Digamber Marg, NewDelhi 110002 is the body
which conducts entrance exams to these institutes.
Eligibility
Age 17 years on the 1st October of the year of admission
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