Description
Sensory-Based Feeding: Part 1—How to Overcome Tactile, Interoceptive, Proprioceptive, and Vestibular Factors Impacting Feeding
Eating can be a very challenging task for children with sensory processing difficulties and tweezing out each area of need can be just as challenging for therapists and parents! This 2-hour webinar allows you to pinpoint how tactile, interoceptive, proprioceptive, and vestibular factors can impact feeding. Tips and tricks on implementing practical strategies to address each of these areas are included, so children on your caseload can start improving right away. This course includes case studies and time for answering appropriate questions.
Learning Outcomes
- Select appropriate tactile preparatory activities and food choices for children who are sensitive to tactile input.
- Identify strategies to use with children who avoid, gag, or spit out solid foods or mixed textures.
- Distinguish between seating recommendations for children who are sensitive to or seek vestibular input.
- Recognize symptoms that indicate a child may be sensitive to interoceptive input and make appropriate food choices for the child.
- Choose strategies to increase proprioceptive feedback during meals.
Target Audience: introductory- to intermediate-level occupational therapists, speech therapists, teachers, early interventionists, parents, psychologists, and others
Course Instructor: Becky Miksic, OTR/L, T-NLP, T-TET, CHt, T-TET, CHt
Learning Assessment: Objective post-test
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Certificates Immediately Available!
Sensational Brain LLC is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures.
This course is approved for 0.2 AOTA CEU or two contact hours under this Classification Code: Category 1, Domain of OT: Performance Skills; Category 2, OT Therapy Process: Approach to Intervention.
Sensational Brain LLC is also an educational provider for CE Broker. This course code is 20-605528.
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♦ Questions? Email celeste@sensationalbrain.com.
