Expert Knowledge at your Fingertips
With limited continuing education available on pediatric feeding disorder, access to training is valuable. The Feeding Matters team is constantly working with its partners and community members to help expand our list of workshops, conferences, and webinars. If you know of an applicable course that is not currently listed, please direct the appropriate person to our submission form.
Feeding Matters' upcoming live workshops:
January
24
7th International PFD Conference
Since 2008, the International Pediatric Feeding Disorder Conference (IPFDC) has been a leader in providing evidence-based education for the evaluation and treatment of children with pediatric feeding disorder featuring intermediate and advanced-level sessions from more than 20 internationally renowned feeding experts. Attendees are also presented some of the industry’s latest research during the IPFDC poster session and gain valuable tools to earlier identify children with PFD.
Feeding Matters' on-demand workshops:
Office Hours with Michelle Mastin, PhD: Intensive Feeding Therapy
An interactive question and answer discussion on intensive feeding therapy, including a definition and common terminology, to help you determine if this may be a fit for your family.
Neonatal Nutrition: Improving Short and Long Term Outcomes
Presented by Matthew E. Abrams, MD, FAAP
Interventions available to babies in the NICU that optimize growth, nutrition, and long term neurodevelopmental outcomes.
Feeding Issues in Substance Exposed Infants
Presented by Joy Browne Ph.D, PCNS, IMH-E (IV)
Appropriate assessment and intervention of feeding interactions in substance exposed infants to assist with the baby’s regulation and development of eating skills.
The Sounds of Music: Supporting Learning During Mealtimes
Presented by Suzanne Evans Morris, PhD
Taught by Suzanne Evans Morris, PhD, this presentation helps participants understand how to select and use different types of music, with videos and experiential activities with music to increase the practical understanding of these concepts.
Understanding Pediatric Feeding Disorder-A Case-Based Approach
Presented by Praveen Goday, MD, CNSC, FAAP, Mary Beth Feuling, MS, RD, CSP, CD, Colleen Taylor Lukens, PhD, Amy Delaney, PhD, CCC-SLP
An in-depth look at how the proposed diagnostic criteria for PFD should enable practitioners and researchers to better characterize the needs of heterogeneous patient populations, facilitate inclusion of all relevant disciplines in treatment planning, and promote the use of common, precise, terminology necessary to advance clinical practice, research, and health-care policy. Continuing Education Credits Available: 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Presented by Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, Med, FAOTA
This workshop reviews the sensory properties of food and examine how to carefully grade the sensory challenges in food presentations to help children progress through developmental mealtime transitions and make mealtimes more enjoyable for both children and parents.