Beyond Picky Eating: Sensory-Based Feeding Interventions
Feeding is one of the most complex sensory experiences of childhood, and picky eating is often just the tip of the iceberg. In this 2-hour webinar, pediatric occupational therapists explore how sensory processing, regulation, and retained primitive reflexes impact mealtime participation and food acceptance. The presenter connects theory to practice with concrete, play-based strategies you can use to move children from avoidance to exploration in a child-led, pressure-free way. Participants will walk away with new strategies to implement into their pediatric feeding sessions.
Learning Outcomes
- List three ways sensory processing, regulation, and interoception influence a child’s feeding behaviors and mealtime participation.
- Identify three key components of a comprehensive feeding history, including sensory, developmental, and environmental factors that impact eating.
- State three sensory-based intervention strategies to support children with feeding challenges in a child-led, positive mealtime framework.
- List three treatment activities that do not involve real food that will provide a positive feeding experience to improve success with feeding in the home environment.
Course Information
- Target Audience: introductory- to intermediate-level  occupational therapy practitioners, SLPs, parents, and other pediatric professionals
- Course Instructor:Â Â Jessica Hill, COTA/L, CPRCS
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- CE Broker course code: 20-1348086
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