Overview & Requirements

Learning Objectives

• Participant will be able to identify 7 key areas to evaluate during a Feeding assessment using the SOS Approach To Feeding Program
• Participants will list 4 action steps needed to implement the SOS Approach To Feeding program successfully into their workplace setting.
• Participants will list the 8 basic requirements for building a Food Hierarchy
• Participants will recognize common Sensory Communications during mealtimes and identify ways to modify the food in response to these communications to facilitate skill development.
• Participants will be able to describe and identify different oral motor skills with foods and develop a therapeutic activity plan for building oral motor skills with a variety of different food types and textures.
• Participants will be able to describe the role of language, engagement, conditioning cue complexes, and play in building feeding skills through therapeutic activities.

Session Outlines

• Sessions 1-6: Lecture and 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 Skills within Different Types of Clinical Practices
  • How to Apply the SOS Program within the Settings I Work In
  • Creating Effective Food Hierarchies within Different Types of Clinical Practices
  • Building Sensory Skill through Food Hierarchies and Play
  • Building Oral Motor Skill through Food Hierarchies and Play
  • How to “Play with a Purpose” to Build Better 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 Course (4 Day) after 2015

OR

• Completion of the SOS Approach To Feeding Course (2.5-3 Day) PLUS the “Tools in Your Pantry: Effectively Using the New Oral Motor Steps” Advanced Topic Course (Online or In-Person).

Participant Expectations:

• Actively seeing clients for Feeding Therapy
• Has 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).