AOTA adopts the “Product Output Reporting System” and Uniform Terminology for Occupational Therapy.  AOTA and AOTF partner to fund 16 small projects and establish regional research consultants to study the effectiveness and evidence basis for occupational therapy. AOTA approves the “Philosophical Base of Occupational Therapy” and “Occupation as the Common Core of Occupational Therapy,” which is revised in 2012.