College Diploma - Occupational Therapist Assistant and Physiotherapist Assistant (3022)

Program Description The Occupational Therapist Assistant and Physiotherapist Assistant (OTA & PTA) program will prepare students to help people with illness, injury or disability increase their independence and overcome challenges of daily life.

Through a combination of theoretical and practical learning in the classroom, laboratory, and field placements students will gain the core skills and hands-on experience to meet the demands of an occupational therapy assistant and/or physiotherapist assistant.

Program highlights include: • Learning to assist individuals to regain or maintain independent function and mobility. • Participating in exciting fieldwork activities beginning in the first semester and gaining valuable clinical skills from experienced clinicians in a variety of work settings. • Experiencing student-centred learning in class and in small labs, with professors who are also clinicians in the field. • An onsite physiotherapy clinic that provides assessment and treatment while offering students fieldwork placements.