As part of the SOS Mentorship Course, you will receive direct guidance and feedback in both written and interactive formats through homework you will complete and video case reviews of your therapy. Whether you are a new SOS practitioner or just looking for a little extra support in getting the SOS Approach more fully integrated into your clinical practice, this Mentorship Course can benefit you!

Included in your SOS Mentorship Registration:

• Direct guidance from SOS Professors
• Clinical & Group Discussions
• Convenient online course with a small class size to support discussion and feedback

SOS Mentorship registrants also receive…

• A 30-minute, one-to-one consultation with an SOS Professor after their Case Study presentation to review the participant’s goals, their areas of strength, and any areas for further development
  
• FREE SOS Advanced Workshop of their choice
• Students who pass the SOS Mentorship Course will receive 1.8 CEUs/18 Professional Contact Hours (ASHA and AOTA)

** Please View the Required Prerequisites for SOS Mentorship below

Learning Objectives

Practitioners successfully completing the SOS Mentorship Course will:

1. Examine the 7 key areas of human function to evaluate during a Feeding assessment using the SOS Approach to Feeding program.
2. Utilize the 4 requirements when building a Food Hierarchy for a client; texture, nutrition, sensory linking, systematic desensitization.
3. Distinguish common Sensory Communications during mealtimes and identify ways to modify the environment, food and/or play in response to these communications to facilitate skill development
4. Analyze the interaction between foods and oral motor skills, and develop a therapeutic activity plan for building oral motor skills with a variety of different food types and textures
5. Interpret how to use language (Key Phrases), therapeutic engagement, conditioning cue complexes, and play-with-a-purpose to build feeding skills in an SOS Approach to Feeding therapy session
6. Execute 4 action steps needed to successfully implement the SOS Approach into the attendee’s workplace setting.

Session Outlines

• Sessions 1-6: Video Case Presentations by SOS Professors, along with Group Activities to further facilitate the course participant’s implementation of the SOS Program in their own unique setting:
  • Assessing Feeding Skillsets in Different Environments
  • How to Apply SOS in My Setting
  • Building Effective Food Hierarchies
  • Building Sensory Skills through Food Hierarchies and Play
  • Building Oral Motor Skills through Food Hierarchies and Play
  • How to Play with the Purpose of Building Feeding Skills
• Sessions 7-12: Review of Case Presentations by SOS Professors and course participants and a Clinical Reasoning Discussion with the SOS Professors, providing feedback and strategies to enhance each course participant’s SOS Feeding Therapy skills

Prerequisite Requirements

• Completion of the SOS Approach to Feeding Training Course (3.75 days-5 days) after January 1, 2016.  If you were trained after 2016, you are not required to take any SOS Advanced Workshops in order to register for the SOS Mentorship Course.
• OR completion of the SOS Approach to Feeding Training Course before January 1, 2016 (2-3 days) PLUS the SOS Advanced Workshop “Tools In Your Pantry: Effectively Using the New Oral Motor Steps”

Participant Expectations

• Must be actively seeing clients for Feeding Therapy
• Must have a client who agrees to serve as a Case Study for the course, including being videotaped for presentation to a small group of professional feeding therapists for training purposes (video-permission-form).

Continuing Education

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

This course will focus on the treatment SOS Approach to Feeding and will not discuss other similar or related treatments. Not available for partial credit.

**Note: Upon full completion of the SOS Mentorship Course, participants are required to pass a short multiple-choice test with at least 80% accuracy, as well as a course evaluation form in order to receive their Certificate of Completion.

American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)

Toomey & Associates, Inc. is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. PD activity approval ID#: 0000011323. This Interactive Distance Learning activity is offered at 1.8 CEUs. Advanced level, OT Service Delivery and Foundational Knowledge. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

**Note: Upon full completion of the SOS Mentorship Course, participants are required to pass a short multiple-choice test with at least 80% accuracy, as well as a course evaluation form in order to receive their Certificate of Completion.

Other Associations

Please contact your association to inquire as to whether this course will meet the requirements for continuing education credits. Upon request, we are happy to provide any additional information for submission to your association.