Working with Children and Adolescents: A Guide for the Occupational Therapy Assistant
 Janet DeLanyearned her doctoral degree in adult education from The Pennsylvania State University, a master’s degree in health administration from the University of Notre Dame, and a post baccalaureate certificate degree in occupational therapy from the University of Pennsylvania. She has practiced as an occupational therapist for 30 years with a focus on children and adolescents. For the past 20 years she also has been an occupational therapy educator, teaching at the associate, baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral levels. Currently she is an associate professor and coordinator of the Doctor of Science in Occupational Science program at Towson University. She serves on the American Occupational Therapy Commission on Practice and is a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association. Her research interests include understanding the leadership and learning women in health care professions, and occupational challenges of teen mothers.  Margaret Pendzickearned her masters degree in occupational therapy from Texas Woman’s University and a baccalaureate degree in English and Sociology from Marquette University.  She has over 30 years of clinical occupational therapy experience working with children, adolescents, and families in early intervention programs, school systems, out-patient pediatric clinics, and home health settings.  She holds board certification in pediatrics from the American Occupational Therapy Association.  For the past 9 years, she has been an instructor and fieldwork coordinator for the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program, The Pennsylvania State University.  She also has instructed baccalaureate level courses on pediatrics, motor control, and technology at The Pennsylvania State University and Mount Mary College.  She has presented workshops and poster sessions on topics related to pediatric practice and occupational therapy assistant education at state, national, and international conferences.  Her research interests include efficacy of course learning experiences to foster critical reasoning skill development in occupational therapy students and environmental influence on student’s ability to attend to task.