PROGRAM INFORMATION
Tri-County Technical College offers the Pre-Occupational Therapy Assistant program in cooperation with Greenville Technical College. Under the occupational therapist’s direction, the occupational therapy assistant (OTA) participates in the development of adaptive skills and performance capacity and is concerned with factors that promote, influence, or enhance performance, as well as those that serve as barriers or impediments to the individual’s ability to function. The OTA is employed in a variety of settings, such as nursing homes, hospitals and clinics, rehabilitation facilities, long-term care facilities, extended-care facilities, sheltered workshops, schools and camps, private homes, and communities.

• SCHEDULING AND ENTRY OPTIONS
  
• RELATED CERTIFICATE(S)

SCHEDULING AND ENTRY OPTIONS
This is a 1+1 program in cooperation with Greenville Technical College. Tri-County Technical College offers the Pre- Occupational Therapy Assistant Certificate as the first phase of the Occupational Therapy program. The second phase is offered at Greenville Technical College where an Associate Degree in Health Science-Occupational Therapy Assistant is awarded upon successful completion of the program. Students will be accepted into the second phase of the program at Greenville Technical College on a first-come basis after the required criteria have been completed. Greenville Technical College will accept three students from Tri-County Technical College each fall semester. Required course work for the first phase at Tri-County Technical College must be completed in the spring semester prior to entry into phase two in the fall semester. It is the student’s responsibility to be sure that his/her name has been placed on the class list for the desired entry date into the second phase of the program. Applicants to Phase II must present evidence of 20 hours of observation in occupational therapy. There is no limitation on completing the first phase of the program, EXCEPT: BIO 210 and 211 may not be taken more than five years prior to entering the second phase of the program.

CERTIFICATE:
Pre-Occupational Therapy
Graduation Credits Required: 35

CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENTS:
Required Program Courses: 35 Semester Credit Hours

NOTE: See also “General Education Course Requirements/Substitutions”

Also see COURSE DESCRIPTIONS