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# 304 AEIOU: An Integrated Approach to Pediatric Feeding

# 304 AEIOU: An Integrated Approach to Pediatric Feeding

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Course Summary:The AEIOU approach – acceptance, exposure, independence, observation and understanding – offers a successful method for integrated treatment of infants and young children with challenging feeding disorders using sensory, oral motor, biomedical and environmental strategies. This course teaches a step-by-step approach for helping children learn to explore food, enjoy eating, and participate independently in social mealtimes. Five factors in this holistic approach emphasize active participation, independence and shared control. Participants will leave with knowledge and practical information to achieve functional outcomes for complex etiologies, improve quality of mealtime, manage tube dependency and transition to eating solid foods, treat sensory aversions, improve oral-motor skills, achieve home carryover, and more. This course is presented in a dynamic learning environment, using case studies and videos to engage and instruct participants. Extensive resources are provided. Many special populations are discussed including: prematurity, GERD, allergies, autism, failure to thrive, tracheostomy, picky eaters, and children with various syndromes.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

1)     Developassessment and treatment strategies that integrate 5 management factors forbiomedical and enviro-behavioral influences that limit successful feeding ininfants and young children.

2)     Formulatestrategies to achieve parent buy-in for home carryover, promote positiveparent-child interaction, and help children participate independently in socialmealtime routines.

3)     Identifycontraindications for oral feeding and describe a 5-step treatment plan foradvancing pre-feeding skills in non-oral feeders.

4)     Assesssigns of distress and/or disengagement during feeding.

5)     Develop and implement treatmentplans for oral feeding that expand taste repertoire and texture acceptance byincorporating strategies for the mealtime environment, seating/positioning, andoral-motor, sensory, and motor deficits.

 


Audience

SLPs, OTs, Assistants, Educators.  Appropriate for other professionals (social workers, nurses, dieticians, etc.) working with infants and young children with feeding problems.
 

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