Description
Learning Objectives
- List four evidence-based benefits of family mealtimes.
- Describe both parent and child roles at the mealtime.
- List the negative influence of pressure, stress and discomfort on mealtimes.
Presentation Summary
Pediatric feeding is an advanced practice skill in multiple professions. Clinicians have traditionally sought out information about normal development, the anatomy and physiology of eating and specialty topics such as lactation and breast feeding, oral motor skill training, sensory and learning theory, and feeding skill training. These are all important foundations for being a feeding professional. This presentation will challenge the audience to expand and shift our thinking compassionately towards empathy, the mealtime over the mouth, the feeding relationship and connection, parent focused therapy, responsivity and communication, sensory and emotional safety, and mealtime peace through what we know about brain research, and a body of evidence and experience that informs these shifts
Speaker
Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, MEd, FAOTA
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