Online day course for professionals
Outcomes
- Participants will be able to describe how feeding skills develop in infancy and early childhood.
- Participants will be able to identify reasons why infants and young children develop feeding difficulties.
- Participants will understand the effect of feeding difficulties on parental anxiety and consequent feeding strategies.
- Participants will be able to assess efficiently a child’s feeding skills and developmental stage of food acceptance.
- Participants will be able to give advice to parents about feeding difficulties that is based on current learning theory and evidence based practice.
Understanding Food Refusal in Childhood
10.00 – 12.00 (with Dr Gillian Harris)
⦁ Understanding the developmental stages of food acceptance
⦁ The formal diagnosis of ARFID and the clinical presentation
⦁ The importance of appetite regulation and understanding height and weight assessment
12.00 – 12.45 (lunch break)
12.45 – 14.45 (with Sarah Mason)
Please bring a food item from your store cupboard to the afternoon session. We will be exploring the sensory and oral-motor aspects of eating different foods.
⦁ The sensory aspects of food acceptance
⦁ Oral-motor skills and texture management
⦁ Management strategies and specific interventions
14.45 – 15.45 (with Dr Harris and Sarah Mason)
The final session can be used for case studies and/or questions and answers. (participants are welcome to submit case studies or questions beforehand – please email them to [email protected])
10.00 – 12.00 (with Dr Gillian Harris)
⦁ Understanding the developmental stages of food acceptance
⦁ The formal diagnosis of ARFID and the clinical presentation
⦁ The importance of appetite regulation and understanding height and weight assessment
12.00 – 12.45 (lunch break)
12.45 – 14.45 (with Sarah Mason)
Please bring a food item from your store cupboard to the afternoon session. We will be exploring the sensory and oral-motor aspects of eating different foods.
⦁ The sensory aspects of food acceptance
⦁ Oral-motor skills and texture management
⦁ Management strategies and specific interventions
14.45 – 15.45 (with Dr Harris and Sarah Mason)
The final session can be used for case studies and/or questions and answers. (participants are welcome to submit case studies or questions beforehand – please email them to [email protected])
