Wright-St Clair, VAHocking, CSchell, BGillen,Scaffa,2011-10-162011-10-162012-012012-01In B. A. Boyt Schell, G. Gillen, M. E. Scaffa, &, E. S. Cohn (Eds.), Willard and Spackman’s occupational therapy (12th ed., pp. 82-94).https://hdl.handle.net/10292/2321This chapter explores how occupational science is informing occupational therapy practice. Firstly the discussion looks at occupational science as a basic science underpinning occupational therapy knowledge, before recent developments in occupational science are show-cased as a way of illustrating its growth as an applied science. Along the way, real world international examples are offered. Each highlights how the ‘science’ of occupational science is guiding evidence-based occupational therapy practice. Each example, in its own way, illustrates occupational science ‘in play’ within the everyday practice worlds of occupational therapists.NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in (see Citation). The original publication is available at (see Publisher's Version).Chapter in BookOpenAccess