Occupational Therapist (OT) Hats

Every April is OT Month, a tradition that began in 1980 alongside the AOTA annual conference, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics counts about 162,450 occupational therapists working in the US. Hospitals and universities still publish explainers because one misunderstanding never dies: in occupational therapy, occupation means the everyday tasks that occupy your time, not employment. That standing myth is the engine of the page's best line, I HAVE NEVER ONCE HELPED ANYONE FIND A JOB, a deadpan answer to a question every OT has heard. NACHO AVERAGE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST is the pun already sold on shirts across the profession, and it gets a second colorway. PLAY IS MY OCCUPATION echoes the Etsy slogan Play Is My Favorite Occupation. THE CASINO COUNTS AS THERAPY comes from the OT Toolbox joke list, where an OT justifies trips to the casino as a way to increase range of motion, strength, cognition and social emotional well being, and it earns a second colorway too. I'M VERY INTO ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING takes the ADL vocabulary and wears it like a hobby. Three badges cover the credentials and the searched terms: OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST, OTR/L and COTA. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one in the clinic, or give one to the OT who is tired of explaining what the letters stand for.