Understanding the Complexity of Feeding & Eating

Many parents and professionals see eating as being an instinctive, automatic and easy task that comes naturally to children.

However, eating is actually the most complicated of human behaviors because it is the only body-based task humans do that involves all 7 areas of human function. Not only do each of these areas need to work correctly individually, but they also need to integrate and coordinate amongst, across and within all 7 areas in order to eat and grow well.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• To utilize an Iceberg analogy to help simplify the complexity of eating into an organized approach for assessments and treatment
• Prevalence of feeding problems to refute the myth that “All Children are Picky and all Children Outgrow This”
• Importance of matching skill to food choices
• Interventions to improve postural stability during mealtimes
• How to use the Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD) diagnosis

Join feeding and eating expert, Dr. Kay Toomey, in this two-hour workshop where she’ll share the complexity of feeding from a multidisciplinary perspective and outline the 7 areas necessary for thorough and accurate Feeding Assessments and Treatments.