Date

September 22, 2023 - September 22, 2023

Description

Evolution of swallowing physiology from infancy forward. Critical information for conducting and interpreting pediatric swallow studies and problem-solving at each juncture. Learn how to look beyond aspiration and appreciate the entire swallow pathway and its potential for compensations and maladaptations in relation to co-morbidities. Procedures in preparation for and during the study that are most common across the US. Recommendations and optional treatment modalities specific to pediatrics will be highlighted. A pediatric history and report format provided to enhance learning. Videos of normal swallowing and typical radiographic swallowing problems will be shown. Case scenarios, and real-life examples discussed. Leave with a new appreciation for the essential current perspectives and the importance of problem-solving each infant/child and his unique presentation. Learn strategies to enhance MD understanding, buy-in and support from a clinician “in the trenches”. Looking at the evidence-base, the big picture for that infant/child, and use of critical reflective thinking, not a cookbook approach.

Location: Yonkers, NY

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: 6.5 contact hours, 0.65 ASHA CEUs

Date

September 22, 2023 - September 22, 2023

Description

The purpose of this course is to provide detailed information of why and what you should feed a child from a nutritional standpoint to support gut and brain health, and the how to, for providing professional intervention to improve tolerance, acceptance, and increase food consumption. Feeding therapists will be instructed on how to discuss these elements within their scope of practice and utilize intervention to create a feeding program utilizing best practice and evidence-based research. Instructional Level: Intermediate  

Location: Webinar

This event is a: Webinar

Contact Name: Scott Boston

Contact Phone: 800-791-0262 ext 1

Presenters: Samantha Heidenreich, OTD, OTR/L, OMT

# of CEU Credits: 3

Date

September 22, 2023 - September 22, 2023

Description

The purpose of this course is to provide case study references and examples of intervention to support the knowledge learned in part 1 of this series. Case studies will be presented throughout lecture, pictures, and videos for different ages and populations impacted by picky eating and the presenter will discuss assessment and intervention while showing visuals of the actual treatment. Course instruction methods include lecture, demonstration, case studies, question/answers.

Location: Webinar

This event is a: Webinar

Contact Name: Scott Boston

Contact Phone: 800-791-0262 ext 1

Presenters: Samantha Heidenreich, OTD, OTR/L, OMT

# of CEU Credits: 3

Date

September 23, 2023 - September 24, 2023

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.

Location: Yonkers, NY

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: 13.0contatc hours, 1.3 ASHA CEUs

Date

September 23, 2023 - September 24, 2023

Description

Live In-Person Course for Pediatric Therapists. Complete both days for 15 Contact Hours (1.5 CEUs) September 23 and 24, 2023 8:00 am to 5:00 pm EDT (US). Registration opens at 7:30 am. Norton Healthcare Learning Center – Hurstbourne Green Louisville, Kentucky COURSE DESCRIPTION: This intermediate-advanced course will provide a systems-based approach to assess the premature/medically complex infant in the NICU/PICU setting. This course will focus on understanding the co-morbidities associated with prematurity and medically-complex infants and increase critical reasoning skills for the clinician to create treatment plans to advance motor and feeding skills for the infant. It will build on information provided during the “Baby Beats and Breaths” course but can be a stand-alone course for advanced clinicians working with medically complex infants. This 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. LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Identify three anatomical and kinesiological developmental changes for the premature and newborn thoracic and abdominal cavity as related to motor development for oral feeding and postural control
• Apply at least two positioning/handling interventions for small babies, with focus on interventions for infants 28 weeks and younger
• Identify three neurological and gastrointestinal co-morbidities of prematurity (including anatomical changes post-surgical interventions for necrotizing enterocolitis) and the effects those co-morbidities have on feeding/motor development for the infant
• Differentiate the lymphatic system of the premature infant from that of the full-term infant and how those differences affect feeding skills
• Assess infant edema within face, extremities, and trunk using objective measurements.
• Apply two treatment strategies with positioning, handling and manual edema mobilization using the provided case study
• Integrate a systems approach to a current individualized care plan for a premature and/or medically complex infant

Location: Louisville, KY

This event is a: Workshop

Contact Name: Education Resources, Inc.

Contact Phone: 800-487-6530

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

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

Date

September 28, 2023 - September 29, 2023

Description

Live Webinar for Therapists. Complete both sessions for 13 Contact Hours (1.3 CEUs) September 28 and 29, 2023 9:10 am EST • 8:10 am CST • 7:10 am MST• 6:10 am PST (US) COURSE DESCRIPTION: This 2-day webinar has been designed for professionals who have a foundation of knowledge in the components of typical and atypical oral motor, oral sensory, feeding/swallowing, respiratory, and general movement development and their interrelationship. Primary emphasis will be placed on the development of appropriate intervention programming for infants and children with neuromuscular involvement who exhibit problems in oral, pharyngeal, feeding, swallowing, phonatory, and respiratory coordination function. Strategies to improve oral motor, oral sensory, pharyngeal, rib cage, and respiratory musculature activity will be discussed as they relate to findings obtained during a comprehensive clinical assessment. Differences between intervention strategies appropriate for direct treatment and for carryover activities such as mealtime feeding will be delineated. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 

• Clinically assess oral pharyngeal, feeding/swallowing and respiratory coordination function in infants and young children
• Detail the essential components of comprehensive intervention programming for young children with neuromuscular involvement
• Implement effective body alignment/positioning for the modification of oral, pharyngeal, and respiratory function in intervention programming
• Perform treatment strategies to improve the function of the cheeks/lips, tongue, and jaw in children with neuromuscular involvement

Location: Live Webinar

This event is a: Webinar

Contact Name: Education Resources, Inc.

Contact Phone: 800-487-6530

Presenters: Rona Alexander, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, C/NDT

# of CEU Credits: 13 Contact Hours (1.30 CEUs)

Date

September 29, 2023 - September 30, 2023

Description

Live Webinar for Pediatric Therapists. Complete both sessions for 12 Contact Hours (1.2 CEUs) September 29 and 30, 2023 9:40 am EST • 8:40 am CST • 7:40 am MST • 6:40 am PST (US) ERI is partnering with P.G. Chambers School to offer this live webinar. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Learn to evaluate infant feeding performance and provide evidence-supported interventions to maximize infants’ outcomes. We’ll discuss diagnostic tools for bedside evaluation, cervical auscultation, modified barium swallow studies and specific medical comorbidities seen in the NICU setting and how these influence the therapy pathway. In addition, we’ll review the International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative and its impact on infant oral feeding. The developmental specialists’ role in oral motor assessment and interventions to support infant feeding in the NICU will be discussed including how to support infants’ care team members in providing best practice care. This course will include lecture, small group discussion, and clinical scenarios with video to enhance observation skills of attendees. LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Identify infant phases of swallow
• Identify anatomical structures related to infant swallow mechanisms
• Relate how anatomical structures support safe swallow
• Relate how specific medical co-morbidities impact feeding performance
• Select which infants are and are not appropriate to complete oral feeding based on level of respiratory support and gestational age
• Decide which evidence-based assessment tool to use to evaluate an infant’s swallow
• Interpret results of observations to plan appropriate clinical intervention techniques
• Select safe oral feeding viscosity based on reported diagnostic assessment
• Develop a treatment plan to support an infant’s oral motor skill acquisition based on the results of different oral motor assessments
• Choose nonpharmacological interventions to support infants exhibiting neonatal abstinence syndrome
• Select bottle/nipple to match infants’ skill level, support breastfeeding goals, and take into consideration any applicable medical comorbidities.
• Identify differences in feedings schedules currently in practice in NICUs
• Identify different environmental supports, feeding techniques, bottle choices and nutritional varieties for infants with symptomatic reflux
• Identify when to recommend an alternative feeding method to support infant nutrition, development and long-term success

Location: Live Webinar

This event is a: Webinar

Contact Name: Education Resources, Inc.

Contact Phone: 800-487-6530

Presenters: Shanna M. Semmler, OTD, OTR/L, CNT, NTMTC

# of CEU Credits: 12 Contact Hours (1.2 CEUs)

Date

October 6, 2023 - October 7, 2023

Description

Location: Webinar

This event is a: Webinar

Contact Name: Scott Boston

Contact Phone: 1-800-791-0262 ext 1

Presenters:  KRISTEN BRACKETT, MS, SLP/CCC

# of CEU Credits: 14

Date

October 7, 2023 - October 8, 2023

Description

Live Webinar for Pediatric Therapists. Complete both sessions for 15 Contact Hours (1.5 CEUs) October 7 and 8, 2023 9:40 am EST • 8:40 am CST • 7:40 am MST • 6:40 am PST (US) COURSE DESCRIPTION:  This 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. It will focus on advancing the critical reasoning skills of the neonatal therapist to support the infant’s ability to obtain foundational motor and sensory skills. These skills include the ability of the infant to cough, produce audible phonation, oral motor skills, swallow skills, trunk facilitation, gestational age-appropriate positioning/handling to support the emergence of gross motor skills for postural stability. You will learn movement analysis skills (via lab time and video presentations) to assess breathing patterns, facilitation techniques to support trunk development, positioning strategies to support chest wall development, and feeding techniques to maximize postural control. We will discuss current literature as relevant to this topic and apply a systems theory approach for case study treatment planning. 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 Name: Education Resources, Inc.

Contact Phone: 800-487-6530

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

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

Date

October 9, 2023 - October 30, 2023

Description

AEIOU: An Integrated Approach to Pediatric Feeding

Comprehensive Professional Training Program

Responsive Feeding Approach to Pediatric Feeding Disorders

• Foundations and Introduction to AEIOU; Support from the Literature (60 min)
• Developmental Progression of Feeding Skills (60 min)
• 15 min Break
• Case Reviews/Videos: Assessment and Treatment Planning (60 min)
• Applying the 5 Factors (Acceptance, Exposure, Independence, Observation and Understanding) (30 min)

• Review of Chewing (5 min); Hands-On Exercise (14 min)
• Factors that Limit Successful Feeding
  • Prematurity, Respiratory/Cardiac Issues, Medication Effects (15 min)
  • Craniofacial Issues, Tongue/Lip Ties (31 min)
  • Gastrointestinal Issues Part 1 (14 min)
  • Gastrointestinal Issues Part 2 (21 min)
  • Allergy and Food Intolerance Issues (9 min)
  • Environmental Issues and Stress (10 min)
• When to Treat: Priorities and Contraindications (24 min)
• How to Treat: The 5-Step Comprehensive Plan (17 min)
• Attachment, Communication, Control (24 min)
• Addressing Mealtime Interactions & Behavior; Caregiver Buy-in and Effective Parent Training (35 min)
• Establishing the Mealtime Environment: Merry Mealtime Guide™ (49min)

• Therapy Meals; Video Presentation of Treatment; Introduction to Sensory Food Aversion (90 min)
• Group Discussion/Question & Answer (45 min)
• 15 min Break
• Treating the Whole Child; Family Centered Care (60 min)

• Parent Testimonial Video (9 min)
• Seating/Positioning/Self-Feeding: Achieving Autonomy and Independence (44 min)
• Sensory Processing/Food Exploration (30 min)
• Expanding Taste Repertoire and Texture Acceptance (40 min)
• Nutritional Issues: Weight Gain vs. Brain Gain (39 min)
• Tube Weaning Case Study (15 min)
• Oral-Motor Treatment: Achieving Success in 5 Steps (32 min)

• Video Presentations of Treatment/Case Studies: Sensory Food Aversion, Oral-Motor, Tube-Weaning (120 min)
• 15 min Break
• Video Presentations Con’t (30 min)
• Problem Solving, Group Discussion, Question and Answer (45 min)

• Cups and Straws (31 min)
• Tricks With Tools: Tips From My Toolbox, Resources, and More (49 min)
• Bonus Downloads, Extend Your Learning Modules (40 min)

1. Develop assessment and treatment strategies that integrate 5 management factors for biomedical and enviro-behavioral influences that limit successful feeding in infants and young children.
2. Formulate strategies to achieve parent buy-in for home carryover, promote positive parent-child interaction, and help children participate independently in social mealtime routines.
3. Identify contraindications for oral feeding and describe a 5-step treatment plan for advancing pre-feeding skills in non-oral feeders.
4. Assess signs of distress and/or disengagement during feeding.
5. Develop and implement treatment plans for oral feeding that expand taste repertoire and texture acceptance by incorporating strategies for the mealtime environment, seating/positioning, and oral-motor, sensory, and motor deficits.

Location: Hybrid Live Online

This event is a: Conference

Contact Name: Nina Ayd Johanson

Presenters: Nina Ayd Johanson, MA, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC

# of CEU Credits: 20 hours, 2.0 CEUs; Intermediate