Date Presented 3/30/2017 Mentorship can support successful occupational performance. Themes of support to milestones and meaningfulness in mentorships emerged from group discussions with undergraduates with learning and attention disorders receiving formal mentorship. Findings can guide development of interventions. Primary Author and Speaker: Consuelo M. Kreider Contributing Authors: Angela Sexton, Marcia Kay Schneider, Zari Linden Whittaker, Sharon Medina

Date Presented 4/18/2015 In this study, we explore habits, routines, and schedules of university students with learning disabilities and attention disorders. Findings highlight the importance of establishing habits and routines that support participation and performance. Findings expand the understanding of holistic collegiate demands.

Date Presented 4/17/2015 Unique methods were used to assess chemical taste sensitivity, food preferences, and food behaviors in children with Barth syndrome. Results show that food behaviors in Barth syndrome are due to differences in chemical taste perception, not texture sensitivity. Chemical taste tests are low cost and can be used clinically.

Date Presented 4/17/2015 Principles of community-engaged research are used to discover and address personal- and environmental-level concerns of university students with learning disabilities for the purpose of facilitating individual action and targeting institutional changes most important to participants.

PURPOSE. We conducted a systematic review examining the extent to which pediatric intervention research recently published in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy reflects occupational therapy’s holistic occupation-based tenets. METHOD. We surveyed 10 systematic reviews and analyzed 38 single effectiveness studies for intervention approach, type, level of environmental targeting, level of occupational task and participation practice, and measures used. RESULTS. Of the 38 single effectiveness studies, 12 (32%) explicitly incorporated both environmental targets of intervention and practice of complex or in vivo occupational tasks, with steady increases during the 2009–2013 time frame. CONCLUSION. In the area of children and youth, occupational therapy is making steady gains in reflecting and demonstrating the effectiveness of the profession’s holistic, occupation-based tenets. Occupational therapy researchers must be mindful to ensure that despite the reductionist nature of intervention research, interventions reflect the profession’s holistic understanding of the interplay between the child, environment, and occupations.

We conducted a systematic review focusing on articles in the occupational therapy practice category of Children and Youth published in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy over the 2-yr period of 2009–2010. We used the frameworks of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and Positive Youth Development (PYD) to explore occupational therapy research progress toward the goals of the Centennial Vision. We organized 46 research articles by research type and classified them within these two frameworks. Most reviewed published research investigated variables representing constructs falling within the ICF domains of Body Functioning and Activity. The effect of occupational therapy interventions on PYD resided primarily in building competence. To meet the tenets of the Centennial Vision, occupational therapists must document changes in children’s engagement in everyday life situations and build the evidence of occupational therapist’s efficacy in facilitating participation.