At present, occupational therapists must be registered to practise in Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Registration is through the local registration board. If you hold overseas qualifications, you will need to apply for recognition of your qualifications by the Council of Occupational Therapists Registration Boards (Australia and New Zealand) Inc. (COTRB) to enable you to become eligible for limited/conditional registration. After your arrival in Australia you will also be required to undertake a practice audit in the course of your first year of employment or self-employment as an occupational therapist.
The Overseas Qualifications Assessment Committee (OQAC) of COTRB will administer both the assessment of qualifications and the practice audit procedures. On successful completion of the practice audit you will be issued with a certificate of professional competency by COTRB. This must be presented to the relevant registration board before full registration is granted.

Contact details for Australian and New Zealand Occupational Therapy Registration Boards can be found at http://www.cotrb.com/otboards.htm
Registration is not required in Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria or the Australian Capital Territory. However, if you want to work as an occupational therapist in a government-funded agency, for example, a public hospital or a community health centre, you are usually expected to have qualifications acceptable to OT AUSTRALIA. OT AUSTRALIA is the professional association for occupational therapists in Australia. Initial membership of OT AUSTRALIA requires recognition of your qualifications by COTRB.

You must satisfy the following minimum criteria to be eligible for recognition by COTRB:
Have completed a World Federation of Occupational Therapy (WFOT) approved tertiary level education program leading to an award in occupational therapy, that is equivalent to an Australian Bachelor degree (as per NOOSR’s Country Education Profiles or NOOSR educational assessment if required). Are registered, licensed or otherwise officially recognised and in good standing as an occupational therapist in the country in which you were educated or practiced and, Have English as a first language OR completed your occupational therapy education in English OR have achieved a pass on an appropriate English language test - either a pass in the Occupational English Test (OET) conducted by Language Australia or a pass in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) with a minimum overall score of Band 7 in the academic level.

Discussion Lists and Newsgroups

Discussion list and Newsgroups

• misc.health.therapy.occupational
  A newsgroup for all areas of occupational therapy - site search facility - difficult to get to useful information
• Occupational-therapy hosted by Mailbase, UK
  A list about matters relating to occupational therapy. Anyone with an professional interest in OT, such as lecturers and researchers, is welcome to participate

To identify discussion lists and newsgroups you might want to join, search some of the following

• Directory of Scholarly E-Conferences complied by Diane Kovacs & The Directory Team, USA
• Health and Medical Newsgroups coordinated by V. Olchanshi, PhD, Medical College of Virginia, USA
  An extensive listing of newsgroups which are available from ISP service providers. To access any particular newsgroup it will have to be on the list maintained by your ISP
• Ozlists maintained by Griffith University, Australia
  The list is grouped within subject areas and includes: list name, address, subscription details, listowner and a brief description of list

OT Journals

• Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
  Official journal of the Australian Association of Occupational Therapists. Access to Tables of Contents
• Occupational Therapy Journal of Research
  Journal of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation. Access to Table of Contents

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Department of Occupational Therapy at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, West Australia.

World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) contains info on policies, activities and publications.

British Columbia Society of Occupational Therapists (BCSOT)

OT Research Centre of Western Australia Curtin University. An interesting program that stands apart from the OT school with a research service consultancy brief.

Government Information

• Australian Department of Health and Aged Care
• Australian Commonwealth Government Entry Point
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
• National Health and Medicine Research Council
• South Australian Department of Human Services

Professional Organisations

Occupational therapy professional associations

• AOTA: American Occupational Therapy Association
• AOTF: American Occupational Therapy Foundation
• British Association of Occupational Therapists
• ENOTHE: European Network of Occupational Therapy in Higher Education
• OT Australia: Australian Association of Occupational Therapists
• Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists
• World Federation of Occupational Therapists

Academic Faculties

Faculties with Web Pages

Australia

• Department of Occupational Therapy University of Queensland
• Division of Occupational Therapy University of Western Sydney-Macarthur
• School of Occupational Therapy Curtin University of Technology
  Parent of the Occupational Therapy Research Centre of Western Australia
• School of Occupational Therapy University of South Australia
  Parent of the Research Group Occupational Wellness and Life Satisfaction
• School of Occupation & Leisure Sciences University of Sydney

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International

• Academic Accreditation from the AOTA: American Occupational Therapy Association
  Lists the standards for accreditation and the accredited educational programs
• Directory of European Schools of Occupational Therapy from ENOTHE: European Network of Occupational Therapy in Higher Education