Occupational therapy in schools: an analysis of Argentine written productions (1985-2015)

Abstract

This essay aims to identify and disseminate written works on occupational therapy in schools, presented at the Argentine Congresses of Occupational Therapy from 1985 to 2015. Throughout the text, the issue of national knowledge production in the school area is addressed as a current problem in our country. Written works on occupational therapy and schools present in the proceedings of national congresses are a documentary source of historical relevance that contribute to knowledge about the professional role and dispel the established idea of a lack of information on the subject. It is therefore urgent to understand from early training that our work in schools is an activity that is situated in its own cultural matrix and that the work of the occupational therapist in schools in Argentina has been based on practical experience, and that from this it was amalgamated with conceptual frameworks that shaped a plurality of interventions in the school context.