Introduction

This page contains an alphabetized list of historical videos, dissertations, peer-reviewed journal articles, other published works, and in memoriams. To access full texts of some of the resources published by the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), you will need to be an AOTA member.

Table of Contents

1. Get Involved
2. Historical Videos
3. Historical Publications
4. AOTA Constitution, Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Policies, Task Force Reports, and Other Related Governance Documents
5. In Memoriams

Get Involved

This compilation of historical scholarly publications, other significant published works, and tributes to occupational therapy's deceased leaders is a work in progress. If you would like to contribute to this project, contact the OTL&LS Administrator at [email protected] to propose works that can be considered to add to this site. An artifact release form is required for all personal artifacts that will be directly posted on the OTL&LS website. All completed forms will need to be signed, dated, and submitted to [email protected].

Historical Videos

• AOTA's Centennial Videos
• Black History: HBCU and OT
• Celebrating 100 Years: Ontario Society of Occupational Therapists (2021)
• Celebrating AOTA's Centennial: A Historical Look at 100 Years of Occupational Therapy
• Crip Camp | A Disability Revolution (2020)
• Department of Defense Video (1954)
• Lives Worth Living | Documentary about Disability Rights Movement | Independent Lens (2011)
• Reconstruction Aides (1918)

Historical Publications

In Memoriams

Claudia Kay Allen: Allen Cognitive Group

M. Joy Anderson: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

A. Jean Ayres: AJOT (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Lois Barber: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

George Edward Barton: Editorial

Karen Natalie Johnson Battle: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Robert Kendall Bing: AJOT (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Estelle Breines: Dignity Memorial

Jane Case-Smith: AJOT, AJOT, OTJR (AOTA is the copyright holder of AJOT and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Albert Copolillo: Richmond Times-Dispatch

Florence Cromwell: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

William Rush Dunton, Jr.: American Journal of Psychiatry

Virginia Chandler-Dykes: Online Obituary and OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Melanie Ellexson: The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

Cynthia Epstein: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Gail Fidler: AJOT (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Geraldine L. Finn: Personal Correspondence

Mary Fiorentino: AJOT (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Mary Foto: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Azela Katherine Gohl-Giese: Cease Funeral Home

Ann Patricia Grady: AOTF and OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Louise Green: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Cindy Hahn: Dignity Memorial Obituary

Herbert James Hall: Editorial

Ruth Hansen: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Jim Hinojosa: The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy and News from AOTA

DeLana K. Honaker: The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy and Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors

Alice Jantzen: AJOT (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Winifred Kahmann: AJOT (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Thomas Bessell Kidner: AHA

Gary Kielhofner: AJOT and OTJR (AOTA is the copyright holder of AJOT and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Lorna Jean King: AJOT (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Anne Lang-Étienne: CJOT

Julia Lathrop: Chicago Daily Tribune and Book Excerpt by Jane Addams

Patricia Laurencelle: Craig Funeral Home

Sidney Licht: American Journal of Physical Medicine

Anne MacRae: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Mary Will McKenzie: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Henrietta McNary: AJOT (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Adolf Meyer: Mental Hygiene

Cordelia Meyers: AJOT (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Maralynne Mitcham: AJOT (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Josephine Moore: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Michael Anthony Nardone: Buckler-Johnston Funeral Home

Barbara E. Neuhas: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Kenneth Ottenbacher: Legacy Remembers Obituary

Mary Reilly: CFOT and OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Mildred Ross: Personal Correspondence (posted by the Connecticut OT Association) and OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Jane Davis Rourk: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Mary Alice Sands: Coastal Cremations and Funeral Care

Karen Elisabeth Michaelsen Schanzenbacher: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Eleanor Clarke Slagle: The American Journal of Psychiatry in Women Building Chicago

Nancy Snyder Lieftinck: The Columbus Dispatch

Jeanne Solomon: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Col. Eloise Strand: Obituary and AMEDD Museum Foundation Monitor

Christine Sullivan: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)

Mary P. Taugher: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Susan E. Tracy: Editorial

Ruth Brunyate Weimer: Occupational Therapy in Mental Health and Chestertown Article

Carlotta Welles: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA) and USC

Wilma West: The Washington Post

Muriel Zimmerman: OT Practice (AOTA is the copyright holder and this publication cannot be duplicated or shared without permission from the AOTA)