Day course on feeding difficulties

Suitable for professionals with some experience of feeding difficulties in practice
Lecture and practical workshop format
09.30am – 16.30pm

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.

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COURSE AGENDA

09:30-10:00

10:00-11:00 


11:00-11:15

11:15-12.15


12.15-13:00

13:00-14:00 


14:00-15:00

15:00-15:15

15:15-16:15


16.15-16:30

Arrival and Registration 

Normal feeding development – how children learn the skills of feeding, including 
oral-motor skills, likes and dislikes of food and social interaction during mealtimes

Coffee Break

Practical session on food acceptance, motor and sensory experiences – exploring our own likes and dislikes and how we are influenced by the look, smell and feel of food

Lunch

Why feeding goes wrong – looking at the interactions between medical factors, 
experience of food in early childhood, child temperament and child/parent interaction

Parental anxiety and effect on feeding strategies

Tea break

Case studies and interventions – the chance to apply some theory to practice, using real life cases

Concluding remarks