Post-Professional Occupational Therapy Certificates
Specialize in Assistive Technology, Pediatrics, or Leadership.Online | 1 Year | Certificate for Academic Credit
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OT Certificate Highlights
Specialize & Develop as an Occupational Therapist
Specialize, develop, and enhance your career options as an occupational therapist with our OT certificates. Get the professional development you need as you specialize in assistive technology, pediatrics, or leadership. Become a more successful and knowledgeable occupational therapist.
If you are interested in career advancement, effectively leading and managing a clinical team, or learning how to better serve your clients, you should take the first step with our certificate programs. After completing one of our OT certificate programs, you will be ready to think critically while analyzing research, build better treatment plans for your patients, and know how to implement best practices in a wide variety of OT practice environments.
Choose from 3 Certificates
Choose from 3 OT certificate options as you specialize further in your area of choice:
- Assistive Technology Practice Certificate
- Pediatric Practice Certificate
- Leadership in Practice Certificate
Adapt various environments to become more accessible to clients. Build better treatment plans for young patients. Become an effective leader in a multitude of treatment settings.
Our certificate instructors bring years of experience in their fields of expertise to the classroom and are an excellent resource as you advance in your area of choice within your occupational therapy careers.
Transfer into our OTD Program
Are you interested in earning your doctorate? Credits from our OT certificate programs transfer directly into our Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) program. Make an easy transition from our OT certificates straight into your doctorate degree.
Designed for the Working OT
Our program is designed for you, the working occupational therapist. Most of our students are full-time working professionals with very busy schedules. We have students that have practiced for 10, 20, and 30 years, as well as students who have just entered the field. Our certificate programs are fully online and are mainly asynchronous.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY CERTIFICATES
Assistive Technology Certificate
Assistive Technology Certificate
Specialize in assistive technology. Prepare to meet the technological needs of your clients. Make a bigger difference in the lives of children and adults with disabilities as you implement assistive technology; increase access to their environments and allow them to more fully live their everyday lives.
Our Assistive Technology Certificate will equip you to:
- Integrate clinical expertise and the best evidence available from systematic research to appraise and execute assistive technology solutions for clients with disabilities.
- Demonstrate high curiosity, clinical reasoning, and continuous learning related to assistive technology.
- Examine global trends in the taxonomy of assistive technology to influence occupational therapy practice.
- Synthesize new learning through the creation of an assistive technology service plan.
Our faculty are certified in Assistive Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology.
Certificate Faculty: Lynn Gitlow, PhD, OTR/L, ATP, FAOTA
Pediatric Practice Certificate
Pediatric Practice Certificate
Specialize in pediatrics. Prepare to meet the needs of your youngest patients and clients. This certificate will help therapists build a professional portfolio of treatment plans that can be applied to current and future clients. The Pediatric Practice certificate is ideal for pediatric practice specialists, occupational therapists who work in outpatient pediatric clinics and schools, or OTs with an interest in pediatrics.
Completing our Pediatric Practice Certificate prepares you to:
- integrate clinical expertise and the current best evidence available from systematic research to improve clinical outcomes and quality of life for the pediatric population.
- demonstrate high curiosity, clinical reasoning, and continuous learning related to pediatric practice in occupational therapy.
- examine national trends related to service delivery in pediatric occupational therapy practice.
- synthesize new learning through the creation of case-based projects.
Our Pediatric Practice Certificate is led by faculty who have several years of experience in occupational therapy pediatrics, who can assist you to deepen your pediatric practice.
Certificate Faculty: Amy Nwora, PhD, OTR/L & Lynn McIver, OTD, OTR/L
Leadership in Practice Certificate
Leadership in Practice Certificate
Prepare for leadership and managerial roles. Move into administration or supervisory positions. Our Leadership in Practice Certificate teaches clinicians how to lead and motivate people through transformative leadership as well as how to effectively run occupational therapy businesses and clinics. If you have the desire to manage, lead, or run your own occupational therapy practice, the Leadership in Practice Certificate is a great option for you.
Completing this certificate will prepare you to:
- Build, adapt, and improve healthcare organizations for the 21st century.
- Integrate leadership theory into administrative practices.
- Mediate and manage communication at every level within the organized health system.
- Develop foundational strategies for legal and ethical issues often faced by administrators of healthcare organizations.
Certificate faculty are experienced in leadership and administration in healthcare settings.
Certificate Faculty: Ellen Hudgins, OTD, OTR/L, ITOT
OT Certificates Curriculum

Assistive Technology
In our Assistive Technology Certificate you will take courses in the following areas:
- Assistive Technology Taxonomy & Evaluation
- Intervention & Environment Modifications
- Implementation & Outcome Studies
Pediatric Practice
In our Pediatric Practice Certificate you will take courses in the following areas:
- Examining Occupational Therapy’s Role with Children & Youth
- Pediatric Occupational Therapy Service Delivery: School-Based Services, Medical Practices, & the Community
- Sensory Processing, Social, & Behavioral Disorders: Addressing Participation in Occupation
Leadership in Practice
In our Leadership in Practice Certificate you will take courses in the following areas:
- Essentials of Practice Management & Administration
- Best Practice for Organizational Development
- Productivity & Profitability for Participation
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Winter 2024
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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from an accredited institution
- One year of clinical practice in occupational therapy
Clinical Rotation Requirements including required vaccinations: Admitted students to Rocky Mountain University who will be completing a clinical rotation will receive vaccination forms regarding required vaccinations. Not all vaccinations or proof of immunity are required at the beginning of the program but will be prior to the first clinical rotation. The University allows for vaccination exemptions and more information about the University’s position on vaccination can be reviewed at https://rm.edu/vaccination-statement/
RMU requires the following items prior to starting any clinical rotations (these are subject to change depending upon public health concerns and specific clinic requirements):
- MMR
- Varicella
- Hepatitis B
- TB
- Tdap
- Annual Influenza
- COVID 19
- HIPAA certification
- OSHA certification
- CPR certification
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UNIVERSITY ACCREDITATION
Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (8060 165th Avenue NE Ste 100, Redmond, WA 98052-3981), an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Secretary of the US Department of Education.
AOTA Membership
Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions (RMU) is proud to be a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). The AOTA is the national professional association that was established in 1917 to represent the interests and concerns of occupational therapy practitioners and students of occupational therapy and to improve the quality of occupational therapy services.
Our AOTA membership demonstrates the commitment that RMU has made to the occupational therapy profession, the continuing education of students, and our support for the consumers who need occupational therapy services.