Date

July 8, 2022 - September 30, 2022

Description

We’re sharing the details of our unique, online and in-depth Paediatric Feeding Foundations Program! The Paediatric Feeding Foundations Program has content designed to help you… ⭐ feel more confident in the foundations of paediatric feeding so that you can apply that learning in practice…. ⭐ fill the gap in your knowledge to work with paediatric feeding clients, rather than referring them all on…. ⭐ walk away with an actionable ‘road-map’ so that you can navigate feeding assessment and treatment with each individual client, with a variety of feeding difficulties…. ⭐ feel confident enough to walk back into your practice and begin applying all you’ve learned in feeding therapy…. ⭐ attend online from the comfort of your home or office for just over 2 hours per week for those wanting live instruction, or work at your own pace from the recordings at time that suited you! By joining us this July-September you’ll have access to… ✅ 13 weekly modules (~2 hours each) – live on Zoom every Friday at 10.30am AEST Melbourne Australia time (Thursday evenings for those in North America) or watch the recording after the session (you don’t need to attend live, you won’t miss out!). Sessions run from 8th July to 30th September 2022. ✅ Optional monthly group mentoring sessions (July-Sept) + a bonus post-course check-in session (November) – 4 hours total, live on Zoom held in the evening (AEST), recordings available to watch after the sessions. ✅ Downloadable clinical tools, templates and resources that you can take back to your practice to implement with your own clients. ✅ 12 months access to the online course hub, including all recordings, materials, tools and templates, so you can go at your own pace and revise when needed. We’ll be covering the following 13 modules, with a mix of theory, case examples/video, practical activities, and tools and resources: 🧩 KNOW THE FOUNDATIONS – Body Systems 🧩 KNOW THE FOUNDATIONS – Developmental Foundations 🧩 KNOW THE FOUNDATIONS – Paediatric Feeding Disorders 🔎ASSESS for Discovery – Case Histories 🔎 ASSESS for Discovery – Oral Motor Exams 🔎 ASSESS for Discovery – Feeding Observations 🔗 INTEGRATE for Clarity – Forming the Picture 🛣️ PLAN the Path Forward 🥣 TREAT for Transformation – Responsive Feeding Therapy 🥣 TREAT for Transformation – Developmental Progressions 🥣 TREAT for Transformation – Oral Sensory Motor Therapies 🥣 TREAT for Transformation – Dysphagia Management 🗂️ BUILD Capacity – Networks, Resources, Processes & Support

Location: Online - Zoom

Contact Name: Carly Veness

Presenters: Carly Veness, Speech Pathologist

# of CEU Credits: 2.0

Date

July 13, 2022 - July 15, 2022

Description

The initial Forum will address the Standards, Competencies and Best Practices for Infant and Family Centered Developmental Care, with a focus on the Best Practices for FEEDING, EATING and NUTRITION developed by the Gravens interprofessional consensus panel. https://nicudesign.nd.edu/nicu-care-standards/ The Forum allows discourse on current research and implantation of the  Standards into intensive care practice.  Scholars, administrators and clinicians are invited to attend in order to develop a series of recommendations for implementation of these competencies and best practices. An emphasis on evidence, system change and adaptation to a new way of practicing will be the focus of work groups.  Dissemination of implementation recommendations to follow. Objectives: 􀁸 Discuss current best evidence-based infant feeding practices 􀁸 Establish essential systems issues that guarantee the implementation of best practices 􀁸 Determine best practice implementation strategies for the Feeding and Nutrition standards in intensive care

Location: Monrovia, California

This event is a: Workshop

Contact Name: Aida Simonian

Contact Phone: 818.708.2850

Presenters: Erin Ross PhD, SLP Carol Jaeger DNP, NNP Kelly McGlothen-Bell IBCLC, DNP Carole Kenner PhD, RN Pamela Dodrill PhD, SLP Britt Pados SLP Joy Browne PhD Debra Paul, OTR Joan Arvedson, PhD, SLP

# of CEU Credits: This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM PAC/LAC is an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing Provider CEP 5862.

Date

July 14, 2022 - July 15, 2022

Description

In this cutting edge continuing education course, participants will learn the E3 model of care for tethered oral tissues.  This includes relevant background information on how tethered oral tissues affect oral function from birth to maturity.  The course format includes lecture, video/photograph examples, case studies, pre and post assessment activities, demonstrations, and hands-on application of techniques in an interactive atmosphere where questions and discussion are welcomed.  This course is a specialty training that is targeted for the oral function professional including  Speech-Language Pathologists and Assistants, Occupational Therapists and Assistants, Orofacial Myofunctional Therapists, and Lactation Consultants and Counselors.  However, this training is appropriate for other professionals including Pediatricians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Dental Hygienists, Dentists and Assistants, Dietitians, Early Intervention Specialists, Osteopaths, Otolaryngologists, Chiropractors, Applied Behavior Analysts, and Psychologists to learn about tethered oral tissues and make appropriate referrals.  Participants who complete the training in its entirety with optional listing on the Chrysalis Orofacial website as a “TOTS: Tethered Oral Tissues Specialty Trained” professional.  Participants who complete the training in its entirety will be granted permission to use and display “TOTS: Tethered Oral Tissues Specialty Training” logo, as a designation to the public of their completion of the training.

Location: Online

This event is a: Workshop

Contact Name: Zach Henning

Contact Phone: 8643838634

Presenters: Autumn Henning, MS, CCC-SLP, IBCLC, COM

# of CEU Credits: 1.4

Date

July 16, 2022 - July 17, 2022

Description

Course Description: This dynamic intermediate-advanced course will focus on the cardiopulmonary implications for the premature or medically-complex infant as related to physiological stability, evolving motor control, sensory stability, and transition to oral motor skills that support feeding. Learning Objectives:

• Integrate chest wall movement assessment and treatment strategies to maximize infant outcomes
• Utilize developmental positioning and handling interventions to reduce chest wall deformities
• Assess the effects of invasive and non-invasive pulmonary support to the facial and oral structures as related to non-nutritive sucking and oral feeding progression
• Incorporate postural support with positioning and handling of infants for improved chest wall mobility during oral feeding
• Integrate a systems approach to individualized care plan for the infant with cardiopulmonary compromised

Location: Webinar

This event is a: Webinar

Contact Phone: 800 487 6530

Presenters: Holly Schifsky, OTR/L, CNT, NTMTC, CBIS

# of CEU Credits: 14.5 Contact Hours (1.45 CEUs)

Date

July 30, 2022 - July 31, 2022

Description

VitalStim Therapy and Beyond: DINES (Dynamic Integration of NMES and Exercise for Swallowing) This accredited hands-on competency course will focus on the muscle physiology, kinesiology, and pathology of the normal and abnormal swallowing mechanisms as it changes across infancy, through childhood and into adulthood. The principles of NMES will be taught in tandem with active dysphagia exercise therapy. NMES for Dysphagia protocols, using FDA cleared devices, will be covered against the backdrop of neurophysiology of the swallowing mechanism and available research. Adjustments to NMES parameters – frequency, phase duration, duty cycle, and more – will be incorporated in specific treatment protocols and extensively practiced in hands-on lab sessions. Cases will be evaluated using the impairment model (pathology; symptoms; signs; dysfunctions; and impairments) and treatment planning will be practiced. Participants will receive one-on-one attention from two experienced instructors, a dysphagia expert and an electrical stimulation expert. Instructors will deliver relevant information on FDA clearance and clinical options relevant to different equipment options available today to better equip clinicians in the ever-changing world of NMES for the treatment of pediatric and adult dysphagia. Participants who successfully complete this course will leave as a skilled VitalStim Provider and DINES Provider with the confidence and building blocks needed to implement a successful NMES for dysphagia therapy program.   “I learned more about dysphagia in this course than I did in all of grad school!”

Location: Charlotte, NC

This event is a: Workshop

Contact Name: CIAO Seminars

Contact Phone: 8509168886

Presenters: Penny Head, PT, MS, SCS, ATC Karin Mitchell, M.A. CCC-SLP

# of CEU Credits: 16 Hours

Date

August 5, 2022 - August 6, 2022

Description

As healthcare providers wanting rapid results to help our patients, a synchronized team approach is the best way to achieve that. Helping patients often requires multiple specialists to work together for best outcomes. Our collaborative and methodical approach allows us to view the whole patient and implement comprehensive care. This approach provides more predictable results and outcomes, while navigating the topography of TOTs in the healthcare community.  See implementation of the E3 Model of Care with patients (infant, child, and adult) on their journey from initial evaluation, education, and execution of a treatment plan.  Real patients, real evaluations, real surgeries in this course!  This course is an advanced specialty training that is targeted for Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Orofacial Myofunctional Therapists, Lactation Consultants, Physicians and Dentists.  Join us for this first-of-its-kind learning adventure in beautiful Greenville, South Carolina! Objectives: – Define the E3 Model of Care components from both the allied health and the release provider perspectives – Formulate a workable vocabulary to create a communication script between allied health providers, release providers, and patients – Describe how to develop and maintain a multidisciplinary care team using the E3 Model of Care – Explain the rationale for accountability between allied health and release providers using the E3 Model of Care – Identify key indicators to determine when a release is recommended – Create descriptive and objective phrases for documentation of both release procedures and progress toward functional outcomes

Location: Greenville, SC

This event is a: Workshop

Contact Name: Zach Henning

Contact Phone: 8643838634

Presenters: Autumn Henning, MS, CCC-SLP, IBCLC, COM Ann Bynum, DDS

# of CEU Credits: 1.45

Date

August 11, 2022 - August 14, 2022

Description

The Sequential Oral Sensory (S.O.S) Approach to Feeding workshop is a trans-disciplinary program for assessing and treating children with feeding difficulties and weight/growth problems from birth to 18 years. It integrates posture, sensory, motor, behavioral/learning, medical, and nutritional factors to comprehensively evaluate and manage children with feeding/growth problems.  Download a copy of the full course agenda here Attendance Policy Participants are expected to attend the Conference for the entire length of each day (8:00 am to 5:00 pm on Days 1-3; 8:00 am to 3:15 pm on Day 4) in order to receive their Certificate of Attendance and their full CEU credits. Participants will miss crucial information needed to be able to correctly use the SOS Approach to Feeding program if they come late or leave the conference early. Please make all travel arrangements to ensure you do not arrive late or need to leave early on any day. COVID-19 Policy Participants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (out of the post-shot 2-week window) and provide proof of vaccination upon arrival on the first day of the Training OR be tested for COVID-19 1-2 days prior to your arrival at the Training and provide negative test results upon arrival on the first day of the training. Testing will also be required 5 days after arrival in Colorado for any out-of-state visitors. Participants must also download, complete and sign the COVID-19 Policy for the SOS Approach to Feeding Main 4-Day Training and upload this during registration or email jillianobrien@gmail.com

Location: Portland, Maine

This event is a: Conference

Contact Name: Jillian O'Brien

Contact Phone: (207) 699-5531 

Presenters: Kay A. Toomey, PhD Lindsay Beckerman, CCC-SLP Kelly Fitzpatrick, OTR/L

# of CEU Credits: 2.85

Date

August 18, 2022 - August 19, 2022

Description

Two days of learning along with a master clinician. This timely interactive seminar will bring you essential information to enhance your effectiveness as a specialist in pediatric swallowing and feeding and a sought-after member of your team. Correlating clinical data, co-morbidities (airway/GI/nutrition/neurologic/oral motor/sensory), and the infant/child’s behaviors is at the heart of completing a good differential. Apply critical problem-solving skills to complex diagnoses and their interaction, for NICU infants through school-aged children. Explore hot topics in dysphagia (e.g., thickening, NMES, swallow studies, tongue tie) practice issues, therapist-physician relationships. Discuss your challenging patients. Perfect for both the novice to take it all in, and for the experienced clinician searching for an advanced level of problem-solving for complex cases and professional issues. Learning Outcomes:

• Apply system-based differential diagnosis specific to clinical presentation of feeding/swallowing problems
• Apply critical reflective thinking to complex feeding/swallowing issues
• Explore strategies to address a wide range of feeding/swallowing problems
• Explain key concepts/challenges/evidence specific to at least three “hot topics” in pediatric dysphagia
• Navigate therapist-physician/team interactions

• Complex interaction of respiratory, GI, airway, sensory and postural co-morbidities
• Case discussions and problem-solving
• Current challenges in service delivery across EI, hospital, school, and community settings
• Broad range of interventions and individualizing plans of care specific to clinical presentation

Location: Atlanta, GA

This event is a: Workshop

Contact Name: Catherine Shaker

Contact Phone: 206-949-7630

Presenters: Catherine Shaker, MS/CCC-SLP, BCS-S

# of CEU Credits: 13 contact hours, 1.3 ASHA CEUs

Date

August 18, 2022 - August 20, 2022

Description

This intermediate-advanced course will provide the clinician with hands-on treatment techniques for positioning/handling infants in the Small Baby unit (infants under 32 weeks gestation), oral motor interventions to support pre-feeding/feeding development, edema management including lymphatic facilitation, post-surgical considerations for infants, trunk facilitation to support cough development, extremity facilitation to support ribcage development, pelvic floor activation for stooling, abdominal facilitation for infants with GI complications, scar assessment/treatment, and feeding techniques for infants with multi-system co-morbidities. Advanced information on reading/interpreting vent settings during interventions for objective assessments for infants that are intubated or have tracheostomy tubes. Expanded lecture/lab section devoted to infants with tracheostomy tubes included oral motor, feeding interventions, postural control, manual cough facilitation, positioning/handling, and durable medical equipment recommendations for infant/family in preparation for home discharge.

Location: Webinar

This event is a: Webinar

Contact Name: ERI Office

Contact Phone: 800-487-6530

Presenters: Holly Schifsky, OTR/L, CNT, NTMTC, CBIS

# of CEU Credits: 15 contact hours (1.5 CEUs)

Date

August 20, 2022 - August 21, 2022

Description

Join us for a Train-the-Trainer session on the Early Feeding Skills Assessment (EFS) Tool. Effective feeding care starts with assessment of what the infant needs to be successful. Learn to use the EFS to effectively provide an infant-guided approach to feeding. Simultaneously learn to train others back home to use the EFS to strengthen your unit’s feeding care. Review current research, the role of experience, dynamic systems theory, and feeding outcomes after NICU. Videotapes with enhanced audio of swallowing and breathing to learn key skill areas of the EFS: respiratory regulation, oral motor and swallowing function, physiologic stability, engagement, and change in coordination patterns of s-s-b as infants develop. Gain confidence scoring early feeding skills as not yet evident, emerging or established. Learn components of an infant-guided, co-regulated approach to feeding and contingent adaptations that make this approach so effective, using the EFS to plan individualized interventions. Receive resources to train others to use the EFS. As a group, network and navigate challenging issues and role-model a collaborative feeding practice. Learning Outcomes

• Discuss outcomes related to feeding in preterms
• Describe the scoring process for the EFS
• Describe application of the EFS to a cue-based feeding approach and problem-solving
• Identify infant cues of stress during feeding specific to physiology, swallowing, and feeding
• Score and profile infant feeding specific to readiness, physiologic stability, oral-motor, & swallowing using videotaped feedings

• Dynamic systems theory applied to feeding
• Preterm infant feeding skill development
• Systematic assessment using the EFS
• Scoring practice via videotaped feedings
• Application of EFS to intervention, use in your unit
• Problem-solving team issues and successes

Location: Atlanta, GA

This event is a: Workshop

Contact Name: Catherine Shaker

Contact Phone: 206-949-7630

Presenters: Catherine Shaker, MS/CCC-SLP, BCS-S Suzanne Thoyre RN, PhD, FAAN

# of CEU Credits: 13.0 contact hours, 1.30 ASHA CEUs