When Children Won't Eat:
The SOS Approach to Feeding

A Kay Toomey Workshop

WORKSHOP DATES:

August 14, 15 and 16, 2008

LOCATION:

Park Place Mall, Community Room
5870 E. Broadway, Tucson, AZ 85711

SPEAKERS

Kay Toomey, PhD, Andrea Monahan, OTR,
Erin Ross, PhD, CCC-SLP, & Amanda Lester, MS CCC-SLP
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REGISTRATION FEES:

Cost: $425 for the course and materials
Late fee: $30 for registrations received after August 1, 2008.
For more information contact us at www.mealtimeconnections.com or
Phone: (520) 829-9635

REGISTRATION FORM | COURSE OVERVIEW | OBJECTIVES | AGENDA | CEUs

COURSE OVERVIEW

The SOS Approach to Feeding is a Transdisciplinary Program for assessing and treating children with feeding and weight/growth difficulties. It has been developed over the course of 12 years through the clinical work of Dr. Kay Toomey, in conjunction with colleagues from several different disciplines including pediatricians, occupational therapists, registered dietitians, andspeech pathologists.

This program integrates sensory , motor, oral behavioral/learning, medical and nutritional factors and approaches in order to comprehensively evaluate and manage children with feeding and growth problems. It is based on, and grounded philosophically in, the "normal" developmental steps, stages and skills of feeding found in typically developing children. The treatment component of the program utilizes these typical developmental steps towards feeding to create a systematic desensitization hierarchy of skills /behaviors necessary for children to progress with eating various textures and with growth at an appropriate rate.

The assessment component of the program makes sure that all physical reasons for atypical feeding development are examined and appropriately treated medically. In addition, the SOS Approach works to identify any nutritional deficits and to develop recommendation appropriate to each individual child's growth parameters and needs. Learning capabilities across all developmental areas are assessed as they relate to feeding.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the conclusion of this course, the participant will be able to:

• Identify the major reasons why children won't eat, based on learning theory principles.


• Outline the necessary developmental skills for feeding and the order of acquisition of those skills across time.


• List current and historical- physical, behavioral, motor and oral motor and sensory factors needing examination as part of a feeding assessment.


• List the SOS Approach to Feeding Program Treatment strategies to be used for toddlers, young children and older children with developmental delays in group and individual formats.


• Define GERD, listing 4 causes of GERD and clinical signs of GERD.


• List three treatment strategies for GERD.


• List signs an symptoms of food intolerance and allergies.

Agenda

DAY 1 - August 14, 2008 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM I. Introduction - Philosophy - Picky Eaters vs Problem Eaters - Introduction of the Team - Tenets of the SOS Approach to Feeding - Top Ten Myths II. Feeding Theory - How children learn to eat and not to eat 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM BREAK 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM Motor Milestones - Oral Motor Milestones - Neurosensory 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM LUNCH ON YOUR OWN 1:00PM – 3:00 PM - Steps to Eating - Developmental Food Continuum - Psychological Developmental Steps 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM BREAK 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM General Treatment Strategies - Social Modeling - Structuring Meal/Snack Times - Reinforcement - Assessing the Cognitive - Food Jags

DAY 2 - August 14, 2008 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM Assessing Feeding Problems - Assessing Format - Referral Candidates - Reasons Children Won't Eat - Child Factors - Environmental Factors - Parent Factors 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM BREAK 10:45 AM – 12:00 pm The SOS Approach to Feeding - Systematic Desensitization - Cues to Eating - Language to Use 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM LUNCH ON YOUR OWN 1:00 PM – 3:15 PM - Therapy Format-Child - Therapy Format-Parent - Building a Food Hierarchy 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM BREAK 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Hierarchy Strategies DAY 3 - August 15, 2008 8:00 AM – 10:15 AM Gastroesophageal reflux 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM BREAK 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Food Intolerance Decision Making

SPEAKER BIOS

Kay Toomey, PhD

Kay Toomey, PhD is a Pediatric Psychologist who has worked with children who don't eat for over 15 years. She developed the SOS Approach to Feeding as a family centered program for assessing and treating children with Feeding Problems. Dr. Toomey helped to form the Denver Children's Hospital Feeding Clinic and Rose Medical'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 and owner of Toomey and Associates, Inc.

Andrea Monaham, OTR
Ms Andrea Monahan, OTR is a pediatric occupational therapist specializing in childen with sensory processing difficulties and feeding issues. Ms. M Monahan worked as a research assistant to Dr. Lucy Jane Miller following her internship at the Children's Hospital in Denver. She has provided specialty sensory integration therapy to children for the past 5 years. Ms Monahan has a private practice in addition to having worked with Dr. Toomey for three years.

Erin Ross CCC-SLP
Erin Ross CCC-SLP is a Speech/Language Pathologist and Clinical Research Fellow in Nutrition specializing in the development of feeding in infants and very young children, as well as generalized feeding disorders. Dr. Ross has worked in several NICU settings in the HealthOne hospital system in Denver for the past 15 years. Dr. Ross has also acted as Education Coordinator for the Rocky Mountain Fragile Infant Feeding Institute, in her capacity as a Clinical Instructor with the Center for Family and Infant Interaction at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Dr. Ross has recently received her doctorate in Clinical Sciences, Health Services tract at this University and is currently completing her Clinical Research Fellowship in Nutrition. Dr. Ross is a nationally recognized speaker about feeding development in the premature infant.

Amanda Lester, MS, CCC-SLP
Amanda Lester, MS, CCC-SLP is a pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist with broad experiences in working with children with a variety of diagnoses in school, hospital and private practice settings. She has specializations in treating children with Emotional Disorders and Feeding disorders. In addition to working with Dr. Toomey since 2005, Ms Lester is also employed at a local Denver hospital providing pediatric speech, language and feeding services.

Continuing Education Units

This workshop offers 18 contact hours.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS: Upon completion of this workshop, participants are eligible for 1.8 continuing education units. AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products or clinical procedures.

SPEECH THERAPISTS:
Arizona Speech-Language Hearing Association (ArSHA) is approved by the Continuing Education Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to provide continuing education activities in speech-language pathology and audiology. This program is offered for 1.8 CEUs (Intermediate Level; Professional Area). ASHA CE Provider approval does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.

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