Instructor: 
Stephanie Richardson M. S. CCC –SLP

Course open to Brooks Employees only. 

Course Location:
3599 University Blvd South
Jacksonville, Florida, 32216

Course Description:
This course covers infant growth and development from the in-utero stage through birth and the first 12 months of life. It includes training on sensory and motor control development, with a focus on how prematurity can affect specific systems due to medical complexities or incomplete development before birth. The course also addresses the reflexes infants rely on to respond to their environment and how these reflexes support the ongoing development of sensory and motor skills essential for successful feeding.

Participants will learn to evaluate and treat pediatric feeding disorders, as well as how to identify when challenges extend beyond their scope of practice. The session concludes with hands-on practice using appropriate tools to apply the skills learned

Course Objectives:
At the end of this course, participants will be able to: 

  • Describe the growth and development of the motor and sensory systems in utero to birth and birth to 12 months
  • Understand how to integrate reflexes into the feeding skills
  • Identify pediatric dysphagia, nutritive and non-nutritive sucking
  • Determine what type of intervention is necessary following the evaluation
  • Communicate with family the evaluation results and the goals with intervention
  • Perform an evaluation on an infant with the tools provided and demonstrate the skills for developing a treatment plan.

Course Education Level: Intermediate 

Intended Audience:
The information presented in this course is clinically relevant for licensed Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapy Assistant, Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) designations.

Disclaimer: Registrations from individuals with clinical designations not listed in the intended audience for this course may be subject to removal from the course roster without a full refund. If you are unsure or have questions related to the intended audience, please email CEU@brooksihl.org and we will be happy to help clarify!

 

Contact Hours:

This course has been approved for 6.5 contact hours by the following boards:

  • Florida Board of Occupational Therapy 

This course has been approved for 5.5 contact hours by the following boards:

  • Florida Board of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology

Continuing Education credit for each participant who meets the satisfactory course completion requirements (licensed in FL) will be automatically uploaded to CE Broker, which means the Florida Boards will have record of your attendance, even if you do not have your own personal CE Broker account. Course certificates will be provided at the completion of the course for those that meet the course completion requirements. Certificates will be mailed for courses that include a post-course test.

Enrollment:
If you are a Brooks Clinician and want to pay by cost center, please fill out this registration form and return the check and form to the Brooks IHL.

Satisfactory Course Completion:
Participants must complete the full course, including signing the attendance sheet each day, actively participating in performance demonstrations and question-and-answer sessions, and successfully completing the required post assessment.

Course Evaluation/Survey:
Within 48 hours of course completion, you will receive a post course survey. The IHL values your feedback and we thank you in advance for taking the survey.

Timed Agenda

8:00-9:00 – In utero development and reflexes

9:00-10:00 – Newborn – Anatomy, growth and development, swallowing

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-11:00 – Pediatric Dysphagia and Evaluation & Case studies

11:00-1:30 – Intervention & Skills Lab (break as needed)

1:30-2:00 – Question & answers