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Live Webinar

Picky Eaters vs Problem Feeders vs Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)


Speaker:
Kay A. Toomey, PhD
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC063505
Brochure Code:
PWZ83642
Media Type:
Live Webinar - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD

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Description

Pediatric feeding disorders make it difficult or impossible for a child to eat, drink, or digest food normally, often compromising their health and development.
The limited intake seen in these children reflects concerns such as:

  • Food aversions
  • Lack of interest in eating or food
  • Avoidance based on sensory characteristics of food
  • Fear of choking or other adverse consequences

Serious medical and psychological complications consist of:

  • Severe malnutrition
  • Growth failure
  • Marked interference with psychosocial functioning

Join feeding expert, Dr. Kay Toomey, who has over 30 years of clinical experience assessing and treating children with a wide range of feeding challenges. She will show you clear guidelines to utilize the appropriate therapy approach.

Learn practical therapeutic interventions to use with children from each diagnostic group and ways to improve family meal routines and increase children’s intake of more nutritious foods.

  • Identify physical, motor, sensory, oral-motor, environmental, nutritional and behavior factors necessary to consider, to properly assess feeding problems.
  • Delineate differential criteria for determining a child’s diagnosis as a typical eater, picky eater, problem feeder or a child with ARFID.
  • Learn when to refer to a specialist for additional treatment.

Change the lives of the children you work with…Register today

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Approved by the Illinois Early Intervention Training Program for 5.25 total contact hours in the area(s) of 1.0 Assessment; 1.75 Atypical Development; 2.0 Intervention; 0.5 Typical Development.


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Kansas Speech-Language Pathologists or Audiologists

Approved for 7.5 continuing education clock hours for Kansas licensed Speech-Language Pathologists by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.


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Speaker

Kay A. Toomey, PhD's Profile

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Toomey & Associates, Inc.


Dr. Kay A. Toomey is a pediatric psychologist who has worked with picky eaters and problem feeders for over 35 years. She has 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 Children’s Hospital – Denver’s Pediatric Oral Feeding Clinic, as well as the Rose Medical Center’s Pediatric Feeding Center.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kay Toomey is the president of Toomey & Associates, Inc and a clinical consultant for The Feeding Clinic @ Star. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kay Toomey is a member of the PFD Alliance Committee with Feeding Matters. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Colorado Psychological Association, the Society of Pediatric Psychology, and the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.


Additional Info

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


Objectives

  1. Determine physical, motor, sensory, oral-motor, environmental, nutritional and behavior factors necessary to consider, to properly assess feeding problems.
  2. Distinguish differential criteria for determining a child’s diagnosis as a typical eater, picky eater, problem feeder or a child with ARFID.
  3. Evaluate the diagnosis of ARFID to discover sensory sensitivity, fear of aversive consequences and/or apparent lack of interest in eating or food.
  4. Utilize practical treatment strategies to advance children’s feeding skills, improve family meal routines and increase children’s intake of more nutritious foods.
  5. Conduct more thorough and accurate diagnoses, to implement the right treatment approaches for the distinct types of feeding/eating problems.
  6. Discriminate when a child needs additional evaluation and intervention by specialists for more intense treatment.

Outline

Prevalence of the Problem
  • Picky eating
  • Problem feeding
  • ARFID
The Complexity of Feeding/Eating
  • 7 areas of human function
  • How children learn to eat (or not)
How to Complete a Comprehensive Feeding Assessment
  • Medical/organs
  • Oral-motor skills
  • Sensory-motor skills
  • Postural and motor skills
  • Nutrition
  • Learning/cognition
  • Environment
Differential Diagnoses Criteria, Research and Limitations
  • Picky eating
    • Able to tolerate new foods on plate
    • Decreased range or variety of foods that will eat
    • Frequently eats a different set of foods than the rest of the family
  • Problem feeding
    • Restricted range or variety of foods
    • Refuses entire categories of food textures
    • Cries and “falls apart” when presented with new foods
  • ARFID
    • Accept a limited diet in relation to sensory features
    • Food refusal is related to aversive or fear-based experiences
    • Extreme pickiness; distractible and forgetful
Treatment Approaches – Align Treatment w/ Diagnosis
  • Systematic desensitization
  • Flooding/escape extinction
  • Eating disorders
Case Studies: When Assessments Go Well, and When They Don’t
  • Picky eating –
    • Case 1 = 2 ½ year old male with limited number of accepted foods he will eat, variable eating from one day to the next, issues staying at the table
    • Case 2 = 2 ½ year old female with restricted food range, over reliance on liquids for calories and swallowing assistance
    • Case 3 = 9 year, 8 month old male with lack of healthy proteins per parents, and no vegetables in his food range
  • Problem feeding –
    • Case 1 = 3 year, 10 month old female with a G-tube, born at 26 weeks gestation, complicated medical history
    • Case 2 = 4.25 year old female born with congenital Rubella, poor weight gain, restricted food range, episodes of gagging and coughing, episodes of refusing to eat
  • ARFID –
    • Case 1 = 15 year old male with chronic “chok-y” sensation, significant weight loss, hospitalized in an Eating Disorders program
    • Case 2 = 13 year old male with difficulties eating food at school, restricted food range per parental report, refusal to eat vegetables
Practical Feeding Strategies for Pediatric Feeding Disorder
  • Routines and environmental supports
  • Matching foods to a child’s skillset
  • Reinforcement
  • Management of maladaptive behaviors
When to Refer
  • Red Flags
  • Picky Eater vs Problem Feeder criteria

Target Audience

  • Psychologists working with Feeding Disorders, Eating Disorders and/or ARFID
  • Other mental health providers working with Feeding Disorders, Eating Disorders and/or ARFID (e.g. social workers, counselors)
  • Pediatric Occupational Therapists
  • Pediatric Speech Pathologists
  • Pediatric Feeding Specialists
  • Physicians and/or Psychiatrists working with Feeding Disorders, Eating Disorders and/or ARFID
  • Registered Dietitians working with Feeding Disorders, Eating Disorders and/or ARFID
  • Day care providers
  • Teachers/Educators
  • Nurses

Reviews

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Overall:      4.8

Total Reviews: 15

Comments

Sharla H

"Excellent course loaded with relevant content. "

Laura T

"I am a special needs preschool teacher who now has a better understanding of what my families are working through and how I can support during school."

Kim M

"Excellent course! Information provided related to growth and nutrition was especially helpful"

Wendy S

"great job imformative"

Dianne Downing M

"Excellent presenter. Would like to learn more from her. Amazing!"

Courtney K

"Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise, Dr. Toomey. I preferred if the course focused more on strategies, but I'm sure it's a lot of content to navigate, as well as it being a burden to speak for 8 hours to a live group of people as well as through a webcast."

Lindsey M

"Great evidence based presentation with knowledgeable presenter"

Erika P

"Great course. Hoping for more courses targeting feeding challenges."

Rebecca E

"great course! happy I participated! "

Carrie W

"Finally happy to take a course regarding feeding. I am an Occupational Therapist and I am seeing more of these children in my practice. "

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