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Digital Seminar

Complex Feeding Issues: Sensory, Motor, and Behavior Techniques for Autism, Cerebral Palsy and other Developmental Delays


Average Rating:
   48
Faculty:
Jessica Hunt, OTR/L
Duration:
6 Hours 24 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Apr 20, 2018
Product Code:
POS063300
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

  • Sensory treatment strategies to keep mealtimes peaceful
  • Decrease food jags for Autism
  • Blend motor and sensory strategies to address feeding delays
  • Deep breathing and proprioceptive input to address self-regulation at the table

Do you work with special needs children who cry or scream, throw food, refuse to sit at a table and eat, or refuse to try new foods? Do you know children who eat only a limited number of foods or only eat the same food over and over? Is going to a restaurant out of the question for the families you work with?

Watch this recording to get the strategies you need to make mealtimes more peaceful and positive!

You will learn much more than the sensory issues causing these feeding difficulties; we will examine behavior issues as well as oral motor difficulties. Through the use of video case examples, I will show you treatment strategies, demonstrations, and hands on exercises to gain the knowledge needed to successfully treat feeding difficulties in children with Autism, Cerebral Palsy and more.

Walk away with advanced techniques to:

  • Evaluate the causes of mealtime difficulties: behavior, sensory, oral motor, or a combination
  • Increase range of foods, decrease food jags
  • Blend motor and sensory to address feeding delays in cerebral palsy
  • 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
  • Develop tactile, auditory and smell to increase participation for kids w/decreased vision or cortical impairment
  • Educate parents and caregivers to promote carryover at home

Credit

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Program content is reviewed periodically per accrediting board rules for currency and appropriateness for credit. Credit approvals are subject to change. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. 
For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact info@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before purchase.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


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Earn up to 6.0 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by state and profession. 


Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants

 

PESI, Inc.  is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Approved provider # 3322. This Distance Learning-Independent activity is offered at 0.6  CEUs Intermediate, OT Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

 


Arizona Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants

CE credit is available. This self-study course consists of 6.0​ continuing education clock hours for Arizona OTs and OTAs. The Arizona Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners (R4-43-203) confirms acceptance of continuing education programs relevant to occupational therapy that are approved by the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA).


Florida Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Occupational Therapy. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 6.0 self-study continuing education credits.

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Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists

This course contains 6.0 hours of self-study continuing education. It was not offered for ASHA CEUs. Please retain your certificate of completion. If audited for ASHA Certification Maintenance, you can submit this certificate of completion at that time. For state licensure, teacher certification renewal, or other credential renewal, contact those agencies for information about your reporting responsibilities and requirements.


California Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board, #PDP 319. This course meets the qualifications for 6.0 hours of self-study continuing professional development credit for Speech-Language Pathologists or Audiologists, as required by the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board.


Kansas Speech-Language Pathologists

Approved for 7.5 self-study continuing education clock hours for Kansas licensed Speech-Language Pathologists by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.


Other Professions

This self-study activity qualifies for 6.25 continuing education clock hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.



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Faculty

Jessica Hunt, OTR/L's Profile

Jessica Hunt, OTR/L Related seminars and products


Jessica Hunt, OTR/L, is well-known for her experience in treating pediatric sensory processing disorders in both the home and clinical settings. She serves children by bringing her feeding expertise directly into the home setting through her company J.L. Hunt Therapeutics. Previously Jessica worked for 10 years at Kaufman Children’s Center as the director of occupational therapy and sensory integration programs, and then as the director of feeding and oral motor programs. She is certified in sensory integration, receiving her Sensory Integration and Praxis Test (SIPT) certification in 2008, and studied with Lucy Jane Miller, PhD, OTR, who is nationally recognized for sensory research, education, and treatment.

Jessica received her bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from Wayne State University in 2003. She gained expertise in “picky eating,” oral-motor therapy through trainings that include, the Beckman Protocol, and Talk Tools, behaviors issues with feeding, feeding strategies for children who have autism, and treating medically challenging children. She is also trained in craniofacial therapy, advanced training in Therapeutic Listening System, and Handwriting without Tears. Jessica is also the notable recipient of the 2011 Michigan Occupational Therapy Association Award of Excellence.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jessica Hunt has an employment relationship with MetroEHS. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jessica Hunt has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Objectives

  1. Evaluate how sensory processing, behavior and oral motor skills impact or interfere with each child’s ability to eat.
  2. Role Play how to implement sensory techniques during and prior to meal times to address difficulties such as not wanting to touch certain foods or sitting at the table.
  3. Implement oral motor exercises and strategies to promote feeding patterns such as rotary chewing pattern, lip closure and tongue lateralization.
  4. Analyze the misconceptions about feeding that impact special needs children.
  5. Evaluate the behaviors that interfere with eating and devise strategies to address the behavior.
  6. Support and guide the parents, caregivers and other family members through often emotional or stressful meal times.

Outline

  • Complex Feeding Issues
    • Common misconceptions explained
    • Overlap of sensory processing skills, oral motor skills and behaviors
    • Normal development key points
  • Evaluation of Feeding Skills
    • Observations: sensory or behavior responses
    • Oral motor evaluation for jaw, lips, and tongue strength and range of motion for feeding
    • Foods that give you information quick
    • Quick sensory tasks for a sensory profile
    • Case study: Putting it all together.
    • Video of evaluations, and case studies
  • Techniques and Treatment Strategies
    • Autism
      • Address food jags
      • Make food fun: sticks, cubes and more to increase oral motor skills
      • Address mealtime behaviors such as not sitting and throwing food
      • Easy ways to regulate arousal at the table using breathing and proprioceptive input
      • Systemic desensitization to address tactile over responsivity
      • Video case study
    • Cerebral Palsy
      • Oral motor exercises to promote rotary chewing, tongue lateralization and lip closure
      • Easy techniques to Increase under responsivity
      • Tone management for increased range of motion in lips and cheeks
      • Hand to mouth connection
      • Handling and seating techniques
      • Exercises to decrease tongue thrust
      • Sensory input to increase oral motor muscle responsivity
      • Stretching the oral facial muscle to regulate
      • tone for chewing and straw drinking
      • Video case examples
    • Other Development Delays (Down Syndrome, Failure to Thrive, and Global Delays)
      • Easy sensory techniques for children with decreased vision and cortical vision impairment
      • Address cognitive delays using sensory processing and motor skills
      • Oral motor exercises and “mealtime concepts” for children who do not eat by mouth
      • Failure to thrive: make fun food and increase interest
      • Video case examples
    • Promote Carry- Over at Home
      • Education of family and caregiver on complexity of feeding
      • Create peaceful mealtime at home through routine
      • Easy oral motor exercises during play and mealtimes
      • Easy sensory activities to promote attention and regulation during mealtime

Target Audience

Occupational Therapists, Speech-Language Pathologists

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Reviews

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Overall:      4.8

Total Reviews: 48

Comments

Kristen P - Lincoln, Nebraska

"Jessica Hunt was a great presenter who obviously has a lot of experience. I would love to get to know her better and "pick her brain"."

Trina H - Albia, Iowa

"Great presenter"

Deborah B - NORTH TONAWANDA, New York

"Great course. Extremely informational. Thank you"

Hannah L - CHAPLIN, Kentucky

"Great course! I loved Jessica's child-centered on such a difficult topic. All of the resources provided were greatly appreciated as well."

Tzipporah K - ST LOUIS PARK, Minnesota

"Great course!"

Cherryl L - BENSALEM, Pennsylvania

"Very informative. I will be able to apply the information I learned to my clients."

Amanda A - CYPRESS, Texas

"This was an excellent mix of current research, principles of feeding, and practical intervention strategies. Excellent course!!"

Maryanne K - MANASQUAN, New Jersey

"Excellent content with real life examples "

Theresa C - ROCHESTER, New York

"Excellent speaker!!!"

Tamara B - PAPILLION, Nebraska

"Thank you Jessica! You did a great job putting the material together in a fluent and functional manner,"

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