The Whole Pie Framework™ for Pediatric Feeding

The Whole Pie Framework™ for Pediatric Feeding

Pediatric feeding is a very complex specialty as it involves diverse areas of practice and requires high levels of caregiver training. As a practitioner, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and wonder where to start or go next. This 2-hour webinar presents the Whole Pie Framework™ for pediatric feeding, which describes the 8 major areas impacting success with eating. After completing this webinar you will know where to start with each new feeding client and gain strategies to increase daily caloric intake while decreasing stress during meals. This course is included with the Early Childhood Webinar Package.

Learning Outcomes

1. Determine which children are appropriate candidates for feeding therapy.
2. Recognize how values and beliefs impact a child’s success in therapy.
3. Identify key questions to answer before starting feeding therapy and which piece of the pie to address first.
4. Pinpoint how to structure meals and snacks to support successful eating.
5. Pinpoint appropriate expectations for adults and children during meals to support a fun and relaxed eating environment.

Course Information

• Target Audience: introductory- through advanced-level occupational and speech-language pathologists along with early interventionists, psychologists, teachers, parents, and anyone helping children to improve their eating abilities
• Course Instructor: Becky Miksic, OTR/L, T-NLP, T-TET, CHt
• CE Broker course code: 20-596236

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Sensational Brain LLC is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Approved Provider #8215. This course is approved for 0.2 AOTA CEU or two contact hours under this Classification Code: Category 2, OT Process: Evaluation. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

Becky Miksic, OTR/L, T-NLP, T-TET, CHt, has been supporting families to progress their children’s eating since 2002.  She has worked in a variety of settings and has helped countless children to expand their food repertoire as well as transitioned tube fed children to oral feedings. Her company, End Picky Eating, focuses on home-based feeding therapy, remote consultations, and education for parents and professionals through webinars and live classes. To view Becky’s courses, check out her product page.

Disclosures

• Financial: Becky receives a speaking fee from Sensational Brain LLC. She is the owner of Child Success Solutions Inc. DBA End Picky Eating and the author of End Picky Eating: Transforming picky eaters into successful eaters so you can go anywhere & know your child will eat.
• Nonfinancial: No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

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