Milwaukee-Downer College offers a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy. 

The first national registry of occupational therapy is published. The National Register and Directory of Qualified Occupational Therapists includes those who have graduated from an approved training school, have 4 years of successful work experience, or have done specialty work in curative treatment. O.T. Reg. is used as the insignia.

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“Essentials of an Acceptable School of Occupational Therapy” is  published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. This document is updated in 1943, 1949, 1965, 1973, 1983, 1991, 1998, 2006, and most recently in 2011 as the ACOTE Standards and Interpretive Guide.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at Eleanor Clarke Slagle’s retirement luncheon. The first paid Executive Secretary, Maud Plummer, serves only a few months due to ill health. Meta Cobb replaces her.

Five schools are accredited jointly by AOTA and AMA:  Boston School of Occupational Therapy (now Tufts University); St. Louis School of Occupational and Recreational Therapy (now Washington University School of Medicine); Western Michigan University; Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy; Milwaukee-Downer College (now Lawrence University), and University of Toronto. The Kalamazoo State Hospital School of Occupational Therapy (now Western Michigan University) is tentatively approved. AOTA publishes the Bibliography on Occupational Therapy, which, although printed by the Department of Occupational Therapy at Essex Mountain Sanatorium in Vermont, is the first publication to carry the Association’s name besides The National Register.

AOTA re-establishes the House of Delegates. The Association administers a one-time, “catch-up” exam for those who did not meet the original deadlines for registration.