PFTC™ Library Feed The Peds® CPFT™ Certification

Kitchen Strategies:  Food Variety & Texture Expansion Techniques for Children with Pediatric Feeding Disorders (PFD) & Selective Eating Patterns

6 Hours, 0.60 ASHA & AOTA CEUs

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This course provides detailed therapeutic techniques and CHILD-centered, food-based kitchen strategies for building essential skills needed to expand food texture variety acceptance. The methods include assessment, treatment planning, sensory oral motor development, language based feedback, emotional support and data collection tools. 

MEET OUR PRESENTER: 

Cheryl Pelletier M.S., CCC-SLP, CLC

Cheryl Pelletier has been an ASHA certified speech-language pathologist since 1987. She is the founder of Gnosh, Inc feeding-swallowing private practice. Over the last 21 years she has worked with infants and children in home-based and outpatient clinic settings using sensory oral-motor based therapy, co-treating with registered dietitians, PTs and OTs. She has presented at numerous staff education events in Southeastern Massachusetts and at ASHA annual convention.

TIME ORDERED AGENDA & LEARNING OBJECTIVES

0-90 minutes: The participants will learn to use systematic Feeding assessment Profiles Basic Ingredients: Defining PFD: The foundations of a feeding-swallowing skills development, brief review of FTP screening, assessment, and developments checklists of the domains of feeding, case histories, examples of assessments, treatment planning, making referrals, references 

90-180 minutes: Stir it up! Participate in Creating a functional Feeding Plan: Supporting family-oriented feeding routines using enhanced vocabulary, concepts and visual scripts, video feedback, case studies.

180-270 minutes: Roll it out! Attendees will learn food-based therapy techniques Kitchen based treatment: food variety expansion, child-centered food preparation, examples using oral sensory-based icons, examples of Food Comfort Scales, food modification and sensory oral skill building, family home programs, demo videos, case examples.

270-360 minutes: Serve it up! Provide feeding therapy techniques and family-centered strategies to support sensory oral-motor skills and expand food variety acceptance, building food texture and variety food comfort with children and families, Food Comfort Scale, taking data, Re-Assessment methods, patients examples, video case studies.

LEARNING OUTCOMES 

After completion of course participants will be able to: 

  • Learn to use systematic Feeding Profiles and Check-Lists of red flags in feeding abilities “from lips to hips”, feeding skills and mealtime behaviors to assist them in assessing children with Pediatric Feeding Disorders (PFD)

  • Recognize 4 or more common barriers to effective eating that children who have feeding disturbances and their families struggle with in order to guide the professional in building comprehensive and effective feeding-nutrition therapy treatment programs. 
  • Identify 6 food-based therapy techniques and family-centered strategies to support sensory oral-motor skills and expand food variety acceptance.
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This course is offered for 0.60 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate Level, Professional Area). 

AOTA CEUs are available for 6 contact hours in Service Delivery & Foundational Knowledge.

Please note if any accommodations are needed to access the learning experience or resource materials, please email [email protected] to discuss further.