A Whole Body Approach

To Treating The Child With Feeding Difficulties

How Pediatric Therapists Can Increase Picky Eater's Repitorie of Nutritional Food and Fluid Intake and Improve Family's Mealtime Without Feeling Frustrated, or Incompetent With Restrictive and Selective Feeding And Eating Behaviors.

About This Online Course

Who is this for?

This Distance Learning-Independent Professional Development Activity is for Pediatric Occupational Therapy Practitioners, Speech Language Pathologists, and Physical Therapists who work with children ages 3-6.

When Does It Start?

You start as soon as you enroll and will have immediate 12-month access to our self-paced, 5-contact hour online curriculum. Rest assured, you can have peace of mind knowing you’ll never feel alone in your journey because we are here with you every step of the way. Dedicate only 1 hour per week and you'll finish the entire online course in 5 easy weeks.

What's included?

This online course awards 0.5 AOTA CEUs (5 Contact hours) and is at an Intermediate educational level. You will also receive free exclusive resources that you can implement in your sessions and distribute to your families.

Toilet Training Success Academy is for you if:

You work with Autism, ADHD, Oppositional defiant disorder, Sensory processing disorder, Down syndrome, Spina Bifida, and related diagnoses
You have kiddos on your caseload who are still in diapers that desperately need to be toilet trained
You feel guilty avoiding toileting goals knowing your client could be toilet trained given the proper intervention and carryover
You want to have the confidence knowing your family will follow through at home when you're not there

ENROLL NOW

🎉 Expert Guest Speakers 🎉

Kelly Mahler, OTD, OTR/L - Expert in Interoception and Toilet Training

Kelly is the winner of multiple awards including the 2020 AOTA Emerging and Innovative Practice Award & a Mom’s Choice Gold Medal, she is an interoception groupie who is actively involved in research projects on topics such as interoception, self-regulation, trauma, and autism.

In our interview, she reveals the root cause as to why some children don't recognize that they need to toilet and exactly what we can do to achieve ultimate toileting success.

Kerri Hample, OTD, OTR/L - Expert in Selective Eaters and Toilet Training

Kerri has 20+ years of experience working with selective eaters and toileting problems. During her extensive continuing education in accomplishing her Certification as a Functional Medicine Health Coach, she has discovered a deeper root to these problems.

In our interview, she reveals the vicious cycle behind our children's food habits and how to break them in order to achieve ultimate toileting independence once and for all.

Dr. Steve Hodges, Pediatric Urologist MD - Expert in Enuresis, Encopresis, and Toilet Training

Children with severe bedwetting and accident problems are referred to Dr. Hodges on a daily basis.

During our interview, he reveals how to resolve constipation, urine withholding, and bedwetting with diagnoses such as Autism, ADHD, ODD, and SPD in order to achieve ultimate toileting independence and prevent years of suffering.

AOTA Approved

5 Contact Hours = 0.5 AOTA CEUs

After completing this intermediate, 5-hour Self-Paced Online Course, you will be awarded 0.5 CEUs (5 contact hours) only if you:

✅ Watch the entire course in its entirety

✅ Pass the simple quiz

✅ Submit your case study, and

✅ Complete the required post-course satisfaction questionnaire.

About Your Instructor/Origin Story

Kathleen Yopp, MOT, OTR/L AOTA Approved Provider #0000001046

Speaker and Author

Contact: [email protected]

Website: www.helpinghandstherapyservices.com

^{Presenter Disclosure:}

^{Financial: Kathleen Yopp, OTR/L receives royalties for this professional development activity.}

^{Non-financial: Kathleen Yopp, OTR/L has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.}

^{Content Disclosure: This learning event does not focus exclusively on any specific product or service.}

Mealtime is one of the most problematic and stressful routines for families and parents are worried about their child's health, immune system, and digestive problems...

You will understand how to approach medical factors such as such as dysphasia or constipation, that are associated with gastrointestinal, digestive systems, cardiorespiratory, and neurological systems...

Nutrition factors such as restricted dietary intake or lack of dietary repertoire and dehydration...

Feeding skill factors such as oral sensory such as visual, hearing, taste, smell, proprioceptive, oral motor function impairments and tactile defensiveness, lip closure and seal, bolus control and manipulation, mastication and swallowing, and..

Psychosocial factors such as emotional, behavioral, and somatic functional problems when addressing picky eating behaviors in order to increase the child’s engagement and participation in feeding, eating, and swallowing.

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THE COURSE OVERVIEW:

Curriculum Outline

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A Quick Welcome Introduction

▶️ About This Course

▶️ Debunking Myths

▶️ OT Role In Addressing Feeding Difficulties in Therapy

Module 1 | Oral Motor Skills Development

▶️ Lesson 1: Typical Development

▶️ Lesson 2: Atypical development and signs

Module 2 | Defining Feeding Difficulty

▶️ Lesson 1: Picky Eaters Selective Eaters

▶️ Lesson 2: Restrictive Eating/AFRID

▶️ Lesson 3: Failure to Thrive

▶️ Lesson 4: Gut Health

Module 3 | Reasons Why Children Won’t Eat

▶️ Lesson 1: Medical issues/Physical reasons

▶️ Lesson 2: Cognitive Level

▶️ Lesson 3: Sensory and Deficits and The Impact on Feeding

▶️ Lesson 4: Behavioral/Emotional

Module 4 | Evaluation and Treatment

▶️ Lesson 1: Evaluation

▶️ Lesson 2: Treatment

▶️ Lesson 3: Coaching Parents

▶️ Lesson 4: Working With Teams

Module 5 | Evidence-Based Strategies

▶️ Lesson 1: Organizing Calming or Alerting

▶️ Lesson 2: Structured Mealtimes

▶️ Lesson 3: Limit Food Jags, Improve Eating, and Introducing New Foods

▶️ Lesson 4: When Should A Child Be Referred For Feeding Therapy?

▶️ Conclusion and Q&A

▶️ Pass Quiz, Submit PSQ, Submit Case Study

▶️ Bonuses: Free Resources

Learning Outcomes

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✔️ Identify the physical, motor, and sensory skills required for functional eating.

✔️ Identify the medical, cognitive, environmental, and behavioral skills to be assessed as they relate to feeding difficulties.

✔️ Develop a formal or informal evaluation of a child and performance areas as they relate to feeding using standardized and informal assessments, as well as case history, parent interviews, and clinical observation.

✔️ Develop an appropriate and holistic treatment plan and home program that addresses the whole child and is family-centered in order to enhance and improve the child’s feeding skills, decrease stress and anxiety related to feeding, improve participation in mealtime routines, and increase the variety of more nutritious foods and intake.

✔️ Analyze g-tube feeding and develop a treatment plan to transition towards per-oral (PO) feeding.

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