*Please note: This course is only open for Brooks Rehabilitation employees.
Course Description:
Pediatric feeding delays and disorders are frequently present in both typically and atypically developing children. Feeding delays and disorders are often challenging to both parents and practitioners and treatment can last months or even years. In this course on pediatric feeding, practitioners will learn about early identification of feeding delays and disorders, how to view feeding treatments as a holistic and multicomponent approach, how to conduct an in-depth evaluation, and general strategies from multiple approaches/skill sets to implement in treatment sessions.
Course Objectives:
Professionals: At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
– Identify and describe typical feeding, oral motor, psychosocial and cognitive development in children birth to 5 years of age
– Compare and contrast typical with atypical feeding development in feeding, oral motor, psychosocial and cognitive areas in children birth to 5 years of age
– Identify and describe multidisciplinary and multicomponent pieces that support feeding treatment in children birth to 5 years of age
– Apply multiple components of an extensive feeding evaluation for children birth to 5 years of age
– Apply multiple components of feeding intervention/treatment plans to create an extensive feeding treatment plan for a child aged birth to 5 years old
– Recognize red flags and additional resources for severe cases of feeding delays and disorders in children birth to 5
Paraprofessionals: At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
– Identify and describe typical feeding, oral motor, psychosocial and cognitive development in children birth to 5 years of age
– Compare and contrast typical with atypical feeding development in feeding, oral motor, psychosocial and cognitive areas in children birth to 5 years of age
– Identify and describe multidisciplinary and multicomponent pieces that support feeding treatment in children birth to 5 years of age
– Identify and describe multiple components of an extensive feeding evaluation for children birth to 5 years of age
– Apply multiple components of feeding intervention/treatment plans that make an extensive feeding treatment plan for a child aged birth to 5 years old
– Recognize red flags and additional resources for severe cases of feeding delays and disorders in children birth to 5