A Whole Body Approach
To Treating The Child With Feed 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 Live Online Course
Who is this for?
This Distance Learning-Interactive 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?
Date: Month/Day/Year
Time: 8:00 am-4:00 pm
Location: Zoom Link
What's included?
This live interactive webinar 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.
AOTA Approved
5 Contact Hours = 0.5 AOTA CEUs
After completing this intermediate, Live Online Course, you will be awarded 0.5 CEUs (5 contact hours) only if you:
✅ Attend the entire Live Webinar event
✅ 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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