CTE program
Admissions Information

PREPARATION NOTE
Students accepted into the occupational therapy assistant program must meet the same health and safety requirements that the participating facilities require of their own employees. These requirements include training and immunizations that must be completed on or before the first day of classes fall semester.

They are:

  1. First Aid Certification
  2. CPR Certification (Health Care Provider)
  3. Required Immunizations
    a. Tdap or Tetanus within two years
    b. MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella)
    c. Negative tuberculosis skin (TB) test. Students who have a positive skin test must provide a negative TB chest x-ray.
    d. Hepta-vax (Hepatitis B) series
    e. Varicella vaccine or a positive titer
  4. Students will be required to submit a criminal background check and drug testing.  The expense of these requirements are additional student costs.
  5. A student may refuse any of the immunizations by signing waiver and release forms but in so doing may limit clinical opportunities.

GENERAL COLLEGE ADMISSION
A student seeking admission to the occupational therapy assistant program must first be admitted through Enrollment Services as a matriculated student with a major of health sciences by doing the following:
1. Submit "Application for Admission as a Matriculated Student"
2. Pay general College application fee.
3. Complete ACT or  Accuplacer  (placement test). This test may be waived at the discretion of Enrollment Services on the basis of previous college coursework.
4. Official sealed transcripts must be submitted from ALL colleges/universities where the student has completed prerequisite coursework for application to the program.

SPECIAL NOTE FOR TRANSFER STUDENTS:
Transcripts from other colleges or universities submitted with application are subject to the following policies:
A. Transcripts must be official (sealed and sent by the issuing institution) and must be sent directly to Enrollment Services.
B. Transfer credits and course grades are considered only on completed courses in which grades are received, not on course-in-progress.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT PROGRAM ADMISSION

  1. High school graduation or equivalent
  2. BIOL 1110 (Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology) with minimum grade of B within the past five years
  3. OTA 1020 with minimum grade of B.  (Can be taken only twice.)

Applicants will be notified by mail of their admission status. New students begin once a year in the fall. Students beginning with the class of 2006 will, upon completion of the OTA Program requirements, receive the Service Learning Scholar Award. See the Thayne Service Learning Center weblink for more information.

Coursework that must be completed before graduation includes:

  1. Math Qualifications (one of the following)
    1. Accuplacer 43 college math score within one year
    2. ACT 22 math score within one year; or
    3. MATH 1010 with C or better
  2. English Qualifications (one of the following)
    1. AP English credit – must be listed on SLCC transcript
    2. CLEP English credit – must be listed on SLCC transcript or
    3. ENGL 1010 – Intro to writing with a C or better
  3. COM 1010
  4. PSY 1100

PREREQUISITES
It is the student's responsibility to examine each course description for details of prerequisite classes. Prerequisites must be satisfied before the designated class is taken. Successful completion of all prerequisite classes is required before admission to the program.