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LAWS GOVERNING OT
RA 5680: PT-OT law
Approved on June 22, 1969
Created the board of examiners for PT and OT
● Qualifications
● Powers and Duties
Qualifications of Applicants
Exam Guidelines
Other concerns
● OT board chair - PT & OT degree holder; 5 yrs experience; physiatrist (doctor), should
not be a faculty member.
● Foreigner - can take as long we could take their board exam; 21 y/o degree holder, 1200
hrs of internship.
-You can take it 3 times, refresher course (6months at UP & DLSU)
-MSOT - UST
-MAOT - Cebu Doctors
RA 7277: Magna Carta for Disabled Persons
● Rights and Privileges for DPs
● Employment
● Education
● Health
● Auxiliary Social Services (DSWD; PCSO)
● Telecommunications (sinehan)
● Accessibility
● Political & Civil Rights
● Prohibition on Discrimination:
- Employment
- Transportation
- Public accommodation & services
● Housing Programs
● Role of National & Local Government agencies
● Tax incentives
● Continuity, penal and authority clauses
RA 9442: Amendment of Magna Carta for Disabled Persons
● Privileges
- Recreation
- Theater, cinema, circus, concert, carnival
- Medicines
- Medical & dental services
- Domestic air and sea travel
- Public railway, skyway, bus