OTA and Assessments?

The question posed to us this week was...Should OTA's be able to give assessments? As an OTAS, I would have to agree that COTA's should be able to administer assessments. I believe our teachers have strived to teach us an array of assessments that we may use in our professional field of choice As students, we have practiced and passed competencies on several of assessments,such as ROM,MMT and The FIM.
As we go from students to professionals, we will need to successfully complete competencies from our supervisors before being allowed to run assessments. Only having OT's to administer assesssments would have far reaching consequences.SNF's and school budgets would be over loaded from hiring OT's, whose salaries are much higher then a OTA and the clients would have a much longer wait to be evaluated.