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When Children Won't Eat: Picky Eaters vs. Problem Feeders. Assessment and Treatment Using the SOS Approach to Feeding

Education Resources, Inc.

Objectives

Objectives List the seven areas of human function that need to be examined to provide a comprehensive Feeding Assessment Identify at least five of the oral, sensory, motor, cognitive or emotional developmental milestones key to being able to eat well List three reasons why children won’t eat, as based on learning theory principles Differentiate classical and operant conditioning principles as applied to resolving feeding problems Identify at least four of the necessary components of an SOS Approach to Feeding program for babies, toddlers, and young children in either an individual or group therapy session List all three requirements for building a Food Hierarchy Identify at least one play-based strategy for progressing a child up each of the 6 major Steps on the Steps to Eating Hierarchy

Target Audience

Audience This conference is intended for professionals who work with children with feeding difficulties including Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Special Educators, Early Intervention Specialists, Nurses, Physicians, Dietitians, Mental Health Workers, other Child Care Providers, and Educators. By attending and completing the SOS Approach to Feeding conference, the attendee understands that Education Resources, Inc. will share the attendees’ contact information with Dr. Kay Toomey/Toomey & Associates, Inc. This information will be used to document and verify each attendee who has fully completed the SOS Approach to Feeding (4 Day) Training Conference and to provide attendees with access to SOS Approach to Feeding resources. ** Registrants are expected to attend the course and participate fully for the entire length of each day (7:30 am to 5:00 pm, Days 1-3), and to stay at the course from 7:30 am to 3:00 pm on the last day in order to receive their Certificate and their full CEU credits. Participants will miss crucial information needed to be able to correctly use the SOS Approach to Feeding program if they come late or leave the course early. COVID Safety Measures for in-person courses Any guidelines issued by the hosting facility will be shared with you and must be reviewed. You will be required to show proof of vaccination and wear a mask at all times. Please do not attend the course if you are experiencing any symptoms of illness such as cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fever, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, or new loss of taste or smell. Please do not attend the course if you believe you have been exposed to someone with a suspected and/or confirmed case of the Coronavirus/COVID-19

Confirmation Notes

This course meets the criteria for 30 contact hours (3.0 CEUs) Intermediate Level. Education Resources Inc. is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Provider #3043. This Distance Learning-Interactive course is offered at 30 contact hours 3.0 CEUs. Intermediate level, OT Service Delivery. AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures. This course can be used toward your NBCOT renewal requirements for 30 units. Approved provider of the FL Board of Occupational Therapy-CE Broker for 36 CE hours. This course meets the approval of the TX Board of OT Examiners. ASHA CE Provider (Intermediate level) 3.0 ASHA CEUs. ASHA CE Provider approval and use of the Brand Block does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products or clinical procedures. This program has been submitted for approval of 30 clock hours of continuing education credit by the TX Speech Language-Hearing-Association (TSHA). TSHA approval does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products or clinical procedures. Most Physical Therapy State Boards accept webinars as a live offering. Please check with your state board to confirm. Approved sponsor by the State of IL Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for Physical Therapy for 36 contact hours. Application has been made to Illinois EI Training Program. Approved provider by the NY State Board of Physical Therapy for 36 contact hours (3.6 CEUs). Education Resources, Inc. is an approved provider for Physical Therapy CEUs in the following states: CA, and TX. The following state boards of physical therapy accept other states’ approval: AK, AR, AZ, DC, DE, GA, HI, ID, IN, KS, MI, MO, MS, NC, OR, PA, RI, SC, UT, VA, VT, WI, WY. The following state boards of physical therapy either do not require course pre-approval or do not require CEUs for re-licensure: AL, CO, CT, IA, MA, ME, MT, NE, ND, NH, SD, WA. 12 hours of this course qualify towards the discipline-specific hours for the 20-hour requirement for NDTA re-certification. They do NOT qualify towards the 8-hour NDTA Instructor requirement for re-certification. Education Resources Inc. 266 Main St, Medfield, MA 02052 • 800-487-6530

Description

This course is one of the prerequisites for the NEW SOS Certification Program NEW FORMAT Includes multiple opportunities for video analysis and clinical problem solving The SOS Approach to Feeding is a Transdisciplinary Program for assessing and treating children with feeding and weight/growth difficulties. It has been developed over the course of 20 years through the clinical work of Dr. Kay Toomey, in conjunction with colleagues from several different disciplines including: Pediatricians, Occupational Therapists, Registered Dieticians, and Speech Pathologists/Therapists. This program integrates sensory, motor, oral, behavioral/learning, medical and nutritional factors and approaches in order to comprehensively evaluate and manage children with feeding/growth problems. It is based on, and grounded philosophically in, the normal developmental steps, stages and skills of feeding found in typically developing children. The treatment component of the program utilizes these typical developmental steps towards feeding to create a systematic desensitization hierarchy of skills/behaviors necessary for children to progress with eating various textures, and with growing at an appropriate rate for them. The assessment component of the program makes sure that all physical reasons for atypical feeding development are examined and appropriately treated medically. In addition, the SOS Approach works to identify any nutritional deficits and to develop recommendations as appropriate to each individual childs growth parameters and needs. Skills across all developmental areas are also assessed with regards to feeding, as well as an examination of learning capabilities with regards to using the SOS program.

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