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News from Malta, 2018 The MAOT President Mr. Demis Cachia attended the COTEC General Assembly held in October in Portugal. This year, a number of initiatives were set up in order to celebrate the OT Day. The MAOT organised a national conference entitled Traumatic Injuries – The Road to Recovery. This conference provided an overview of the journey of a

News from Italy, 2018 Dear colleagues this year is and will be a BIG year of changes. The most important changes are on: public devices professional registers In Italy a lot of devices such as wheelchairs, orthosis, AAC communicators, shower chairs, hoists for transfer etc. are prescribed by the doctor after the OT evaluation and provided by the public health

News from Germany, 2017 One of the main topics DVE had focused up to now this year was related to the federal elections 2017 taking place in Germany this fall. One of our first steps was to identify relevant political topics crucial for the further development of our profession and publish these in our association’s journal. Our demands were and

News from France, 2018 At the end of 2017, our association hired a new employee. Nicolas Briard is OT for 15 years. His fields of expertise are pediatric and new assistive technologies. Currently, Nicolas is a PhD student in cognitive psychology. He works in our association as technical director. Nicolas is responsible for implementing the association’s strategies, promoting occupational therapy

News from Finland, 2016 Finnish  Association of  Rehabilitation  Professionals new  organisation  established to  secure  stronger safeguarding  for  Occupational Therapists  At the end of the year 2015  the  Finnish Association of Occupational Therapists,  TOI  founded a new roof association together with the Finnish  Association of  Physiotherapists  (FAP). The new organization is called the Finnish  Association of  Rehabilitation  Professionals. Both  TOI and  FAP  remain independent associations who bring together the two professional bodies and students.  The roof association provides the safeguarding and legal services for the

News from Estonia, 2017 The Estonian Association of Occupational Therapists (ETL) is an organization that is responsible for the promotion of the occupational therapy profession in Estonia; it also represents the interests of occupational therapists. A new board, consisting of six specialists with different tasks within the organization, was elected this summer. Occupational therapy is a relatively new profession in