Q 01/05

Which architect hosted the 1917 meeting that founded occupational therapy's first professional society at his Clifton Springs home?

A) Thomas Kidner

B) William Rush Dunton

C) George Barton

D) Herbert Hall

Answer · why

C) George Barton

George Barton, disabled by tuberculosis and a frostbitten foot, had rebuilt his own health through work, then turned his house into a workshop where o...

Q 02/05

What was the name of the Clifton Springs, New York house where occupational therapy's 1917 founding meeting was held?

A) Consolation House

B) Hull House

C) Dorset House

D) Phipps House

Answer · why

A) Consolation House

Consolation House was designed as a school, workshop and vocational bureau for convalescents, so the founders met inside a working model of the therap...

Q 03/05

Susan Tracy, counted among occupational therapy's founders although she missed the 1917 meeting, had trained in which profession?

A) Architecture

B) Nursing

C) Social work

D) Teaching

Answer · why

B) Nursing

Nursing showed Tracy that busy patients were happier than idle ones, so in 1906 she began teaching student nurses to use crafts at the bedside and in ...

Q 04/05

Who is considered the 'mother' of occupational therapy?

A) Susan Cox Johnson

B) Eleanor Clarke Slagle

C) Elizabeth Casson

D) Jean Ayres

Answer · why

B) Eleanor Clarke Slagle

AOTA's highest academic award, the Slagle Lectureship, is named for her.

Q 05/05

At which famous Chicago settlement did Slagle set up a workroom for people with disabilities?

A) Hull House

B) Henry Street Settlement

C) Toynbee Hall

D) Neighborhood Guild

Answer · why

A) Hull House

She was inspired to enter the field after visiting Kankakee State Hospital.