If you obtained your occupational therapy license in Alabama, you will need to earn continuing education every two years in order to maintain your license. To help, I’m going to walk you through the steps I take to maintain my own occupational therapy license (and easily earn CEUs).
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Step 1: Look up your OT/OTA license.
To begin the process, I always double-check that my license is displaying correctly. You can look up your Alabama occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant license here.
Step 2: Confirm the Alabama OT continuing education requirements.
It’s always good to double check for any updates to your 2025/2026 licensing cycle.
To get you going here is the information I found, with links to where I found it.
Here are the basic OT/OTA CEU requirements in Alabama:
Due at time of license renewal:
- Every two years on either April 30 or October 31, depending on when you were originally licensed
- Renewal applications are due 60 days before your license is set to expire
How many hours are required?
- OTs need 15 continuing education hours every year, or 30 hours every two years
- OTAs need 10 continuing education hours every year, or 20 hours every two years
Requirements:
- Education should be relevant to occupational therapy practice
- Limit of 1/3 of total required hours may be academic, administrative, or management activities, giving presentations, or supervision of a level II student
- You will need to submit course certificates or other documentation showing completion of continuing education
- Alabama OT professionals are now requried to track CEU completion through CE Broker
Verify here: Alabama State Board of Occupational Therapy / Alabama Administrative Code
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Here are the specific occupational therapy continuing education requirements for coursework in Alabama:
These were copied from the Alabama State Board of Occupational Therapy.
Alabama OT Continuing Education
- All continuing education must be relevant to occupational therapy or coursework approved by another health profession board or organization. For courses approved by other boards, we will honor the approved hours for the other professionals.
- All coursework and in-services required by your employer are acceptable except corporate compliance or any in-service or course specific to your employment i.e.: employee handbook, leave, etc.
- Proof of attendance (certificates, letters or transcripts) with course title, date(s) and contact hours/CEUs/PDUs must be submitted. Proof of attendance without noted hours will only be allowed .5 contact hour (1/2 hour) of credit.
- One CPR course is acceptable each renewal period. A copy of your card is proof for one contact hour.
- Level II student fieldwork supervision is acceptable to meet continuing education requirements (limited hours– see below). A letter from the student’s school or a copy of the AOTA student form with your name and signature indicating you as one of the primary supervisors will be required for proof.
- There is no limit to the amount of hours you may obtain with self-study (home study, online or webinars).
- No more than a 1/3 of your total required hours may be academic, administrative, management, supervision of level II student fieldwork or presentation hours with the remainder being direct patient care objectives. A copy of transcripts will be required for academic courses. Conference materials or letter from conference provider noting presentation is required for presentation hours (presentation time only, no preparation time, and the course may be used only one time for CE credit). 10 Contact Hours = 1 Continuing Education Unit = 1 Academic Hour = 1 Professional Development Unit
Step 3: Earn your CEU hours (discounts below)!
Ok, now that you know your requirements, it is time to start earning those CEUs! There are of course a lot of options out there, but we hope you consider checking out the courses offered by OT Potential.
Do OT Potential courses count toward the continuing education required to renew my license?
Yes! You can easily earn all of your Alabama OT continuing education hours through OT Potential.
Our CEU courses and monthly live webinars are AOTA approved, and you’ll earn a certificate of completion after you pass a short assessment! You can also easily track OT Potential Courses on CE Broker.
Where can Alabama OT professionals get the best deals on CEUs?
At OT Potential, our courses are all built around helping you get new evidence into practice.
But, what good is evidence-based practice, if you are not reimbursed appropriately for it? Our local associations do SUCH important advocacy work, when it comes to reimbursement and scope of practice. That’s why we’ve made it part of our mission to support these associations.
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👍 Price of OT Potential with your Alabama discount = $84.15 (Reg $99)
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And, the best part is if you decide to renew, it will be at your discounted price. AND, we’ll make another donation to ALOTA.
This is one of the cheapest ways to earn your required Alabama OT continuing education, and you can feel good doing it because you are giving back to your state association ❤️.
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Step 4: Renew your license. 🎉
Ok, now it’s time for the big moment.
You can renew your license online.
Conclusion
Hopefully, you found this post helpful!
As you can tell, I am a continuing education nerd 🤓, so if you have any other questions about continuing education and your Alabama OT license renewal, just ask me the comments!
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