title: AJOT Celebrates AOTA's Centennial.
abstract: Each issue of the 2017 volume of the American Journal of Occupational Therapy will feature a special Centennial Topics section containing two to four articles related to a specific theme. The goal is to acknowledge occupational therapy's history while focusing on the future of the profession. The Centennial Topics section is intended to help occupational therapy professionals in all aspects of the profession take stock of how far the profession has come and to spark interest in the many exciting paths for the future development of the field.
authors.affiliation: Lorie Gage Richards, PhD, OTR/L, is Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Occupational Therapy, and Chair and Associate Professor, Division of Occupational Therapy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City; lorie.richards@hsc.utah.edu.
authors.forename: Lorie Gage
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Richards
mesh_terms: D000846:Anniversaries and Special Events; D006801:Humans; D009788:Occupational Therapy; D010506:Periodicals as Topic