Occupational Therapy language: Matters of respect, accountability and leadership

Language has the power to express, change, and organize human thought and experience. Here, the author reflects on the inter-relationships between language, ideas and action, and on the common language expressed in client-centred practice focused on occupation, as in Canada's newest conceptual and practice guidelines on Enabling Occupation. She presents her reflections as matters of respect, accountability and leadership in occupational therapy.