Course Description
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Pediatric Feeding: The Big Picture – Full Course
In this intermediate course for SLP/SLPAs, OT/COTAs, and PT/PTAs, you will learn the five primary domains to assess and treat in feeding disorders: Sensory, Motor, Behavioral, Medical, and Environmental and how to address them in a comprehensive treatment program. Discover the relationship between a child’s gross motor abilities and his feeding skills and why the Sensory system is always the first place to start. Explore how having a child with a feeding disorder impacts the family and find out why you should always know which medications your client is taking. You’ll learn what you can and cannot do to help a child with severe gastrointestinal or cardiopulmonary problems eat and how Prematurity might contribute to feeding problems. Stop trying to use someone else’s “cookbook” and develop a unique program appropriate for each client and family.
Key Learning Outcomes:
As a result of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
- Identify the relationship between Gross Motor Development and Oral Motor/Feeding Development.
- Explain the importance of addressing the sensory system as a foundation for Feeding and Swallowing.
- Delineate the effects of common medications and medical conditions on feeding and swallowing.
- Discuss how to set up the environment to assist in the acquisition of Feeding Skills.
- Outline the five primary areas of concern in Feeding Disorders and ways to address each component in a comprehensive approach.
- Specify appropriate delineation of roles and areas for collaboration based on professional scope, ethics and licensure considerations.
Duration:
15 hours.
Agenda:
Agenda Day 1:
8:00 – Gross Motor abilities as the foundation of Feeding Skills
10:15 – Break (15 min)
10:30 – Sensory Component: Sensory comes first!
12:00 – Lunch (1 hour)
1:00 – Motor Component: Do we do “Oral Motor”?
3:00 – Break (15 min)
3:15 – Medical Issues: Gastrointestinal- there’s more to it than just Reflux
4:30 – Group Problem-Solving
5:00 – End
Agenda Day 2:
8:00 – Medical Issues: Pharmaceutical – Drugs and dysphagia can be a bad mix!
9:15 – Medical Issues: Cardiopulmonary, Visual Impairment, Prematurity
10:30 – Break (15 min)
10:45 – Environmental Component: Getting from “NO!” to “More, please?”
12:00 – Lunch (1 hour)
1:00 – Environmental Component (Continued)
2:30 – Break (15 min)
2:45 – Family Dynamics – How to work with a broken system
4:30 – Group problem-solving
5:00 – End
About the Presenter:
Jennifer Meyer is a popular national speaker in the areas of NICU and Pediatric Dysphagia and has received exceptional ratings for her courses. She has over 25 years experience specializing in pediatric feeding disorders, working in Neonatal Intensive Care Units, developing outpatient hospital-based feeding programs, providing consultation and program development for Early Childhood Intervention Programs and Home Health Companies, and serving as Assistant Clinical Professor at Texas Woman’s University and Clinical Coordinator of the Center for Assisting Families with Feeding and Eating (CAFFE).
Disclosures:
Presenter Disclosures:
Financial: Jennifer Meyer is a co-owner of CEU-Espresso, Inc. and was paid an honorarium for this presentation. She owns a private practice, Feeding and Dysphagia Resources, P. C. in Denton, TX.
Non-financial: Jennifer is a personal friend of the developer of the Res-Q Infant Wedge, sometimes mentioned in her presentations.
Sponsor Disclosure:
This course is presented by CEU-Espresso, Inc.
Content Disclosure:
This learning event does not focus exclusively on any specific product or service.
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