Jessica Hunt – Complex Feeding Issues

We will discuss not only the sensory issues that cause these feeding problems but also behavioral and motor issues.

 Jessica Hunt – Complex Feeding Issues

• Complex Feeding Issues
  • Common misconceptions explained
  • It is possible to combine sensory processing skills with oral motor skills and behavior.
  • Normal development key points
• Evaluation of Feeding Skills
  • Observations: Behavior or sensory responses
  • Oral motor evaluation of jaw, lips and tongue strength and range for feeding
  • Fast information from food
  • For a quick sensory profile, perform sensory tasks
  • Case study: Combining it all.
  • Video of evaluations and case studies
• Treatment strategies and techniques
  • Autism
    • Food jags:
    • To increase your oral motor skills, make food fun with sticks, cubes or other forms of food
    • Resolve mealtime issues like not sitting or throwing food
    • Simple ways to control arousal at a table by using breathing and proprioceptive feedback
    • Systemic desensitization to treat tactile over responsivity
    • Video case study
  • Cerebral Palsy
    • Oral motor exercises to encourage rotary chewing and tongue lateralization.
    • Easy ways to increase your responsivity
    • Tone management allows for a greater range of motion on the cheeks and lips
    • Hand to mouth communication
    • How to handle and how to sit
    • Exercises to reduce tongue thrust
    • Sensory input to enhance oral motor muscle receptivity
    • To regulate the oral facial muscles, stretch them.
    • Tone for straw drinking and chewing
    • Video case examples
  • Other Development Delays: Down Syndrome, Failure To Thrive, Global Delays
    • Children with impaired vision or cortical sight impairment can use simple sensory techniques to aid their vision.
    • Use sensory processing and motor skills to address cognitive delays
    • Oral motor exercises “mealtime concepts” Children who don’t eat by the mouth
    • To thrive, make fun food and increase interest
    • Video case examples
  • Promote Carry- Over at Home
    • Families and caregivers should be educated about the complexity of feeding
    • You can create peaceful meals at home by following a routine
    • Simple oral motor exercises for play and meals
    • Simple sensory activities that promote attention and regulation during mealtime

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Description:

• Sensory treatment strategies to ensure peaceful mealtimes
• Reduce food jags to aid Autism
• Mix motor and sensory strategies to deal with feeding delays
• Deep breathing and proprioceptive feedback to address self-Regulating at the Table

Are you a special needs child care worker? Do they scream or cry, throw food, refuse eating at the table, or refuse to try new foods or places to eat? Are there children you know who only eat a few foods, or only one type of food? Are your families unable to go out to restaurants?

Watch this recording to get the strategies you need to make mealtimes more peaceful and positive!

This course will cover more than just sensory issues. We will also discuss behavioral and motor issues. You will be shown how to treat feeding problems in children with Autism and Cerebral Palsy using video cases.

You will leave with advanced techniques for:

• Assess the causes of difficulty eating during mealtimes: behavioral, sensory, motor or combination.
• Increase variety and decrease food jags
• Combine motor and sensory to address cerebral palsy’s feeding delays
• You can increase jaw strength and reduce ineffective lip closure. Or, you can improve your tongue lateralization.
• To address yourself, use deep breathing and proprioceptive feedback-Regulating at the Table
• For children with impaired vision or cortical impairment, it is important to develop sensory, auditory, tactile and smell skills in order to increase their participation
• To promote home carryover, educate parents and caregivers

Here’s what you’ll get in Jessica Hunt – Complex Feeding Issues