3112 The Role of Intensive Occupational Therapy in Supporting Intensive Feeding Therapy-PRO

Keyword(s) SOS approach to feeding, intensive feeding therapy, intensive sensory therapy

Summary:This workshop is presented by Dr. Kay Toomey, the developer of the SOS Approach to Feeding program and Clinical Director of SOS Feeding Solutions at STAR Institute. Dr. Toomey presents how Intensive Sensory Therapy using Dr. Miller’s sensory therapy approach can help a child in an Intensive SOS Approach to Feeding program make more rapid progress in their feeding treatment. First, the characteristics of both Dr. Miller’s model and the SOS Approach to Feeding are outlined. Then an example schedule for an Intensive SOS Feeding Program is given. The symposium closes with data comparing and contrasting the progress children in an intensive feeding program make when they are receiving no Sensory Therapy, versus receiving traditional Sensory Therapy, or receiving Intensive Sensory Therapy using Dr. Miller’s approach. Presented at the 16th International 3S Symposium.

Credit AOTA CEU:0.2

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3112 The Role of Intensive Occupational Therapy in Supporting Intensive Feeding Therapy-PRO

Description

Level: Intermediate

Intended Audience: Clinicians, teachers, mental health and medical professionals, parents, students, caregivers

Prerequisite: None

Presenter: Kay Toomey, PhDis a Pediatric Psychologist who has worked with children who don’t eat for almost 30 years. She has developed the SOS Approach to Feeding as a family centered program for assessing and treating children with Feeding Problems. Dr. Toomey speaks nationally and internationally about her approach. She also acts as a consultant to Gerber Products. Dr. Toomey helped to form The Children’s Hospital – Denver’s Pediatric Oral Feeding Clinic, as well as the Rose Medical Center’s Pediatric Feeding Center. Dr. Toomey co-chaired the Pediatric Therapy Services Department at Rose Medical Center prior to entering private practice. Dr. Toomey is currently the President of Toomey & Associates, Inc., as well as the Clinical Director of SOS Feeding Solutions at STAR Institute with Dr. Lucy Jane Miller.Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to identify the differences between Dr. Miller’s model for intensive Occupational Therapy and a “task driven” Occupational Therapy model which impact intensive Feeding Therapy
Participants will be able to outline an Intensive Feeding Therapy model using the SOS Approach to Feeding
Participants will be able to list at least 5 Occupational Therapy strategies which will support children being successful in Intensive Feeding Therapy

Continuing Education: STAR Institute for SPD is an AOTA Approved Provider of Continuing Education. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

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Upon full completion of the course video, participants must complete and pass a quiz with at least 80% accuracy to receive a certificate of completion.

Disclosures: S.O.S. Approach to Feeding Faculty Disclosures
This workshop provides training on the SOS Approach to Feeding and will not include information or training on other approaches.