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1. Evaluate how sensory processing, behavior and oral motor skills impact or interfere with each child’s ability to eat.
2. Role Play how to implement sensory techniques during and prior to meal times to address difficulties such as not wanting to touch certain foods or sitting at the table.
3. Implement oral motor exercises and strategies to promote feeding patterns such as rotary chewing pattern, lip closure and tongue lateralization.
4. Analyze the misconceptions about feeding that impact special needs children.
5. Evaluate the behaviors that interfere with eating and devise strategies to address the behavior.
6. Support and guide the parents, caregivers and other family members through often emotional or stressful meal times.

• Complex Feeding Issues
  • Common misconceptions explained
  • Overlap of sensory processing skills, oral motor skills and behaviors
  • Normal development key points
• Evaluation of Feeding Skills
  • Observations: sensory or behavior responses
  • Oral motor evaluation for jaw, lips, and tongue strength and range of motion for feeding
  • Foods that give you information quick
  • Quick sensory tasks for a sensory profile
  • Case study: Putting it all together.
  • Video of evaluations, and case studies
• Techniques and Treatment Strategies
  • Autism
    • Address food jags
    • Make food fun: sticks, cubes and more to increase oral motor skills
    • Address mealtime behaviors such as not sitting and throwing food
    • Easy ways to regulate arousal at the table using breathing and proprioceptive input
    • Systemic desensitization to address tactile over responsivity
    • Video case study
  • Cerebral Palsy
    • Oral motor exercises to promote rotary chewing, tongue lateralization and lip closure
    • Easy techniques to Increase under responsivity
    • Tone management for increased range of motion in lips and cheeks
    • Hand to mouth connection
    • Handling and seating techniques
    • Exercises to decrease tongue thrust
    • Sensory input to increase oral motor muscle responsivity
    • Stretching the oral facial muscle to regulate
    • tone for chewing and straw drinking
    • Video case examples
  • Other Development Delays (Down Syndrome, Failure to Thrive, and Global Delays)
    • Easy sensory techniques for children with decreased vision and cortical vision impairment
    • Address cognitive delays using sensory processing and motor skills
    • Oral motor exercises and “mealtime concepts” for children who do not eat by mouth
    • Failure to thrive: make fun food and increase interest
    • Video case examples
  • Promote Carry- Over at Home
    • Education of family and caregiver on complexity of feeding
    • Create peaceful mealtime at home through routine
    • Easy oral motor exercises during play and mealtimes
    • Easy sensory activities to promote attention and regulation during mealtime

Jessica Hunt, OTR/L, is well-known for her experience in treating pediatric sensory processing disorders in both the home and clinical settings. She serves children by bringing her feeding expertise directly into the home setting through her company J.L. Hunt Therapeutics. Previously Jessica worked for 10 years at Kaufman Children’s Center as the director of occupational therapy and sensory integration programs, and then as the director of feeding and oral motor programs. She is certified in sensory integration, receiving her Sensory Integration and Praxis Test (SIPT) certification in 2008, and studied with Lucy Jane Miller, PhD, OTR, who is nationally recognized for sensory research, education, and treatment.

Jessica received her bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from Wayne State University in 2003. She gained expertise in “picky eating,” oral-motor therapy through trainings that include, the Beckman Protocol, and Talk Tools, behaviors issues with feeding, feeding strategies for children who have autism, and treating medically challenging children. She is also trained in craniofacial therapy, advanced training in Therapeutic Listening System, and Handwriting without Tears. Jessica is also the notable recipient of the 2011 Michigan Occupational Therapy Association Award of Excellence.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jessica Hunt has an employment relationship with MetroEHS. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jessica Hunt has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations.

Certificates of Successful Completion are available for email, download and/or printing from your online account immediately following the successful completion of the post-test/evaluation.

**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

Illinois Early Intervention Professionals:

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Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
No CE available for this board.

Arizona Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants: CE credit is available. This self-study course consists of 6.0 continuing education clock hours for Arizona OTs and OTAs. The Arizona Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners (R4-43-203) confirms acceptance of continuing education programs relevant to occupational therapy that are approved by the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA).

Florida Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Occupational Therapy. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.

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Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists
This course contains 6.0 hours of self-study continuing education. It was not offered for ASHA CEUs. Please retain your certificate of completion. If audited for ASHA Certification Maintenance, you can submit this certificate of completion at that time. For state licensure, teacher certification renewal, or other credential renewal, contact those agencies for information about your reporting responsibilities and requirements.

California Speech-Language Pathologists/Audiologists: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board, #PDP 319. This course meets the qualifications for 6.0 hours of self-study continuing professional development credit for Speech-Language Pathologists or Audiologists, as required by the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board.

Florida Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. Provider Number: 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.

Kansas Speech-Language Pathologists: Approved for 7.5 self-study continuing education clock hours for Kansas licensed Speech-Language Pathologists by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.

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Other Professions
This self-study activity qualifies for 6.25 clock hours of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Disclaimer: **Information obtained in this course should be used within your scope of practice.
**It is your ethical responsibility to report accurate hours to your licensing board.
**All self-study participants must complete and pass (80% or better) a post-test and evaluation prior to receiving a certificate of completion. If you require a copy of the test/evaluation for CE purposes, please print at the time you take the test. Or you may call our customer service department and a copy of your test/evaluation will be emailed to you. Please allow 30-45 days.

Occupational Therapists, Speech-Language Pathologists