Course Description 

Feeding -- the process of eating and drinking -- is something all species do instinctively. It seems like a simple act but it is anything but that . . .

TalkTools® Instructor, Monica Purdy has created a comprehensive, "user-friendly," highly applicable course for speech and feeding professionals. This course will take a deep dive into the "foundations" of the feeding process, integrating a client-centered, family-focused therapy approach to feeding roadblocks therapists see every day across all age groups. The course will employ the TalkTools® Kaleidoscope Feeding Model™ -- which draws upon an evolving, multi-disciplinary perspective to allow flexible, customizable therapy approaches for building feeding evaluations and program plans.

Participants will experience hands-on, interactive learning with applicable techniques, case studies, and key strategies incorporated throughout the course. Instruction will include: what to look for when initially assessing a client, identifying relevant anatomy and structure (including a review of the self-study module–see below), the impacts of these systems on eating and drinking, as well as outlining feeding milestones and what to observe when these milestones are not reached. Participants will look across the pediatric feeding experience, assessing infant feeding and the critical transition from breast/bottle to the table -- and applying evidence-informed, therapy-based strategies and solutions for overcoming feeding roadblocks therapists often see.

1. Identify 3 structures/systems that impact feeding
2. Identify a course of action for the transitional from breast/bottle feeding to the table
3. Describe 4 potential feeding roadblocks
4. Explain picky eating vs. problem eating
5. Complete a Client-Centered, Family-Focused Feeding Plan

• Monica Purdy, MA, CCC-SLP, COM®

Schedule

Part 1

0-30 min (30 min) -- The Kaleidoscope Model™ for Feeding

30-165 min (2 hr 15 min) -- Structures and Systems: How Anatomy Impacts Feeding

• 165-300 min (2 hr 15 min)-- Structures and Systems: How Sensory Regulation Impacts Feeding
• 300-345 min (45 min) -- Feeding Milestones
• 345-375 min (30 min) -- Practicum (Hands-On Learning)
• 375-485 min (1 hr 50min) -- Assessment
• Total: 8 hrs 5min

Part 2

0-15 min (15 min) -- Infant Feeding: Breastfeeding, Bottle Feeding, Disordered Infant Feeding

15-75 min (1 hr) -- Breast/Bottle to Table:  Liquids-Purees-Solids

75-105 min (30 min) -- Chewing and Swallowing

105-135 min (30 min) -- Disordered/Dysfundation Feeding

135-165 min (30 min) -- Feeding Roadblocks

165-210 min (45 min) -- Evaluation and Referrals using the Kaleidoscope Model™ 

210-240 min (30 min) -- Practicum (Hands-On Learning)

Total: 4 hours 

Content Disclosure: This presentation will focus on treatment methods related to the use of TalkTools® resources. Other similar treatment approaches will receive limited or no coverage during this lecture.

TalkTools®️ is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. Provider #: 5059. This virtual course qualifies for 12 contact hours or 1.2 CEUs in the Category of Occupational Therapy Process. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA. Course Level: Intermediate.

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