Essential events for your professional growth
Explore the many ways you can feed your creativity, fuel your purpose, and broaden your knowledge. AOTA offers a wide variety of educational programs, events, conferences, and more that are specially created to help you connect with your profession and realize your full potential.
AOTA Fall Conferences
Early rates end September 9 for AOTA's Mental Health Specialty Conference
From facilitating community involvement and moving beyond coping skills, to our role in eating disorders, intimacy, addiction recovery, and pediatric mental health, this conference has it all. Earn up to 10.75 contact hours with hundreds of mental-health minded OTs and OTAs.
Registration now open for the 2026 Education Summit
Join educators, researchers, and academic faculty for a weekend dedicated to occupational therapy education. The Education Summit is where you become part of the future of OT education—navigating changes in student needs, curriculum development, fieldwork demands, and technological advancements in the classroom and the workplace.
AOTA Live Webinar Series
Elevate your practice with the AOTA Live Webinar Series that presents practice-related information and emerging trends—all in a real-time, interactive environment. Not able to attend the live webinars? Register and access these webinars on demand at your convenience after the live presentation.
If you are interested in presenting a Live Webinar, please reach out to conference@aota.org with your topic.
September 10 | 2:00 pm-3:00 pm ET
Complex wounds affect more than tissue integrity; than can significantly disrupt occupational performance, participation, and quality of life. This webinar examines the impact of wounds on meaningful occupations through an occupational therapy lens and explores occupational therapy’s unique role in functional wound recovery. Participants will identify physical, psychosocial, and environmental barriers to participation and discuss occupation-centered interventions that support independence, engagement, and holistic rehabilitation outcomes within interdisciplinary wound care practice.
Celebrate occupational therapy all year long!
Enriching lives through meaningful engagement is at the core of the occupational therapy profession and AOTA’s Vision 2030. This April and all year long, we celebrate OT practitioners and the power of occupational therapy.
New & notable events
2027 Entrepreneurship Specialty Conference Call for Papers/Reviewers
Deadline September 4 | Submit a proposal or sign up to be a reviewer for the 2027 Entrepreneurship Virtual Specialty Conference to be held in January.
Environmental Modifications CoP Open House
September 8 from 7:00 pm-8:00 pm ET. Join the Environmental Modifications Community of Practice's discussion on falls prevention.
2027 AOTA Elections nominations window
September 8-October 14 | AOTA members: View open positions and submit nominations.
Volunteer Leadership Pathways Conversations
Various dates and times from September 8-October 13. Learn about leadership opportunities, ask questions, and hear firsthand experiences from current and past volunteer leaders.
Upcoming Events
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