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Play with Your Food: An Integrative Approach to the Most Difficult Feeding Challenges

Education Resources, Inc.

Objectives

The participant will be able to:
Discuss commonalities in the development of play, emotional intelligence, and mealtime skills.
Identify common medical conditions associated with food refusals and the research-based evidence that needs to guide mealtime interventions.
Compare and differentiate a child’s current food choices for nutritional value and sensory preference.
Generate plans for successfully introducing new and nourishing foods to develop epigentic resilience to disease.
Design therapeutic interventions that motivate and reward expanded food choices and the development of competent eating skills via the gut-brain connection.

Target Audience

This course is designed for OTs, OTAs, PTs, PTAs, SLPs, Registered Dieticians, and Special Educators. Eating affects the entire lifespan and problems occur at all ages. Most commonly we see food refusals and other maladaptive eating behaviors in autism spectrum disorders, however disordered eating and food refusals occur frequently in ADHD, developmental delays, and even with typically developing children.

Confirmation Notes

This course meets the criteria for 13 contact hours (1.3 CEUs).
Approval # 1802-208 by the NJ State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for 13 CEC's Physical Therapy License Number__________
The PA State Board of Physical Therapy recognizes other state's approvals.
In MA and NH this workshop meets accepted standards for continuing competence activities.
Approved Provider by the NY State Board of Physical Therapy for 15.6 contact hours.
This course is offered for up to 1.3 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level,Professional area).
sponsored by Approved provider of continuing education by the American Occupational Therapy Association #3043, for 13 contact hours Intermediate Level Occupational Therapy Process: assessment, intervention. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products or clinical procedures by AOTA.
NBCOT professional development provider-13PDUs.

Agenda

Schedule – Day 1
8:00-8:30 Registration/Continental Breakfast 8:30-10:00 An Integrative Approach to Nutrition ? Science Quantum physics, epigenetics, laws of small numbers ? Theory Self-regulation and polyvagal theory Sensory processing and sensory integration Role of stress and inflammation in chronic disease ? Beyond Food Nourishing body, mind, and spirit 10:00-11:30 Using the Healing Compass Physiology, senses, emotions, and occupations 11:30-12:30 Lunch (on your own) 12:30-2:00 An Integrative Approach to Digestion ? Hunger and satiety ? Basic physiology of the GI system ? Emotions, neurotransmitters and hormones affecting digestion ? Co-regulation of feeding, eating, and play 2:00-3:30 Determining Developmental Readiness ? Using the Rainbow Kids Play Scale ? Using the Rainbow Kids Mealtime Observation ? Connecting emotional development and mealtime behaviors ? Greenspan, Maslow, and the power of play in neuroplasticity 3:30-5:00 What Do They Eat? ? Analyzing nutrition based on data collection ? Debunking nutritional myths with nutritional research ? Analyzing sensory aspects of food for clues to behavior

Schedule – Day 2
8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast 8:30-9:00 Case Studies 9:00-10:00 Commonsense Approach to Food Allergies and Sensitivities ? Common inflammatory foods ? Chronic health conditions related to inflammation ? Is it physiology or psychology? ? Overcoming sugar addiction 10:00-10:30 Mealtime experiential learning 10:30-11:30 Creating Child and Family-Centered Solutions ? Adult expectations and responsibilities ? Child's participation and interest 11:30-12:30 Lunch (on your own) 12:30-1:30 Food chaining roadmaps ? Staying in a child's sensory comfort zone ? Increasing variety ? Keeping the focus on exploration 1:30-2:30 Meal planning - supporting parents ? Cooking and mealtime chores with kids ? Resources for help 2:30-3:30 Treatment sessions - making food exploration fun ? Working with development and sensory processing ? Playing with food ? Writing mealtime performance objectives for school-based practice 3:30-4:00 Case Studies Two 15 minute breaks will be given each day

Description

Do you have a caseload full of children who refuse to eat because of sensory challenges, food sensitivities, behaviors, or even no apparent reason? This course addresses the growing problem of food refusals and nutritional deficiencies from a revolutionary new perspective and focuses on self-regulation, socio-cultural, and emotional perspectives while incorporating conventional nutrition, oral-motor skills, sensory processing and behavioral techniques. Susan’s highly successful, integrative approach integrates body, mind and spirit and uses play, the primary occupation of childhood, as a focal point to improve outcomes and plot a course to happier and healthier mealtimes. The seminar format involves extensive case problem solving and participants will apply the provided tools to their own clients. These tools include: structured observations of play and mealtime behaviors; food journals for nutrition, sensory, and food sensitivities; functional, measurable performance objectives aligned with academic goals; and play based mealtime implementation strategies.

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