Jessica Hunt – Pediatric Complex Feeding Issues

This digital seminar is currently on pre-order meaning that the video will not be ready until 2-3 weeks after the program has taken place.

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Jessica Hunt – Pediatric Complex Feeding Issues

The Complexities of Feeding

• Definition and prevalence – new information; move toward Pediatric Feeding Disorder
• Overlap of sensory processing skills, oral motor skills and behaviors
• Normal developmental key points
• Neurological foundations
• Trauma, feeding and impact on brain
  • NICU and medical trauma, NG Tubes, trachotmesty, etc.
  • Negative experience around feeding gagging, retching, pain with eating …

Evaluation of Feeding Skills

• Differentiate between sensory overload and behaviors during feeding
• Activity analysis of feeding – Evaluation videos and group analysis
• Information obtained – what questions to ask
• Oral motor evaluation – jaw, lips, tongue strength; range of motion for feeding
• Hands-on draw to learn lab

Sensory Integration Strategies

• Research-backed sensory play-based approach
  • Decrease sensory over-responsivity to foods
  • Use food exploration/cooking for older kids
• Self-regulation to engage body during feeding
  • Core engagement
  • Breathing exercises
  • Therapeutic use of music
  • Heavy work

Oral Motor Skills

• Lab – Oral motor exercises, kineseotaping, stretching
• Children who don’t swallow safely – saliva management, increase swallowing …

Food in Therapy
Taste Lab – Sensory feedback and motor requirement needed for each food texture

• Progression of food texture
• Match food presented in therapy to child’s sensory needs and motor skills
• Nutritional considerations

Behaviors During Mealtimes: Environmental Strategies to Set Children Up for Success

• Manage common mealtime behaviors – throwing foods, not sitting, crying during mealtimes
• Increase cooperation using the “just right challenge”
• Shift between treatment frameworks
• How to use the “feeding roadmap”

Special Considerations

• Autism
• Cerebral Palsy
• Down Syndrome
• Children who don’t eat by mouth/G-Tube
• Medically complex children

Promote Carry-Over At Home

• Educate parents who are stressed and in survival mode
• Help families have realistic expectations
• Easy-to-implement home programs that parents will do

• Help parents to change the relationship between child and food

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Description:

This digital seminar is currently on pre-order meaning that the video will not be ready until 2-3 weeks after the program has taken place.

Children do not present with one area of difficulty when it comes to feeding – it is typically a mix of behavior, sensory and oral-motor issues. As a result, we need to learn how to adjust on the fly when a child throws us a curveball in a session that doesn’t fit with our treatment plan.

In this recording, I will show you how to use a roadmap to navigate the muddy waters of feeding and learn how to seamlessly move between sensory, motor and behavior strategies to create the best-individualized treatment plan for each child.

Through video case examples, I will show you treatment strategies, and hands-on exercises to gain the knowledge needed to successfully treat feeding difficulties.

You’ll walk away with advanced techniques to:

• Evaluate the causes of mealtime difficulties: behavior, sensory, oral motor, or a combination
• Increase the range of foods, decrease rigidity around mealtimes
• Increase jaw strength and decrease ineffective lip closure, or poor tongue lateralization
• Use deep breathing and proprioceptive input to address self-regulation at the table
• Educate parents and caregivers to promote carryover at home
• Increase self-regulation around feeding
• Increase food play and exploration to increase food acceptance

Don’t miss out! Learn how to put all the pieces together for children with complex feeding issues.