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 Conferences
Earn contact hours at each of these in-person events!
AOTA Specialty Conference: Children & Youth - virtual option available
Pre-conference sessions on December 11. Earn up to 13 contact hours on sessions related to sleep, assistive technology, handwriting, and skilled documentation strategies. AOTA members and student members get discounted rates!
AOTA INSPIRE 2026 registration and housing now open!
Join us in Southern California for AOTA INSPIRE 2026 | Annual Conference & Expo, where big ideas meet blue skies! You'll earn up to 19 contact hours across hundreds of sessions, connect with thousands of other OT practitioners, and leave feeling refreshed, recharged, and inspired. AOTA members, students, and retired practitioners get discounted rates!
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.
December 16 | 2:00 pm-3:00 pm ET
This course examines wheelchair seating principles focusing on client risk factors, evidence-based practices, and client-centered approaches. Participants will learn to make informed clinical recommendations to improve function and skin/tissue health.
Celebrate occupational therapy all year long!
Though OT Month will continue to be commemorated each April, we believe that the profession deserves year-round celebration in honor of its profound and often life-changing impact on the lives of patients, caregivers, and communities it serves.
New & notable events
Older Driver Safety Awareness Week
December 1-5 | Occupational therapy practitioners must focus on the response to aging or medical changes that impact older drivers. During this week, we encourage OTPs’ confident participation in this important discussion.
Advancing Excellence in Pediatrics PART 2: Exploring Even More AOTA Fellowship Programs
December 12 from 12:00 pm-1:00 pm ET. Join the CYSIS for an engaging practice chat. Register today!
Representative Assembly requests for action and reports due
December 31 deadline | Become an active participant in AOTA by submitting a request for action to the Representative Assembly (RA) on professional topics or issues.
Upcoming Events
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AOTA is committed to providing an environment that encourages the free expression and exchange of ideas and promotes equal opportunities and respectful treatment for all participants.
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