Designed for: Occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, physical therapists, psychologists, dietitians, special educators involved in feeding assessment and intervention for infants through school age children with complex feeding disorders.

How does feeding, a process so integral to the child’s health and well-being, go awry? This course focuses on a systematic transdisciplinary (TR-eat) model integrating oral motor therapy techniques and behavioral management to treat complex feeding problems in infants and children through school age. Participants explore innovative strategies for addressing oral aversion, food refusal, poor transition onto solid foods, texture grading, learning to chew, self feeding and feeding difficulties related to autism and picky eaters via video case studies, lecture and practice. These interventions are systematic and evidence-based with research supporting outcomes.

This course delivers practical, ready-to-implement solutions and hands-on techniques to empower therapists with new treatment ideas for their most complex patients.