Feeding Therapy: A Sensory-Motor Approach

Date: June 20 & 21, 2008

Host: Down Syndrome Information Alliance

Venue: Sutter Cancer Center, 2800 L Street, Sacramento, CA 95816

Website: www.downsyndromeinfo.org

Presented by Lori Overland, MS, CCC-SLP

Frustrated with clients who don’t have intact sensory systems? Lori will show you a step-by-step approach to teach your most challenging clients tolerance of touch, enabling them to learn to eat and to use oral-motor therapy tools. Day 1 focuses on promoting acceptance of touch for therapeutic feeding and oral exercises. Her techniques incorporate a variety of temperatures, textures and tastes. Day 2 features hands-on learning of techniques for spoon feeding, straw drinking and chewing solid foods. Leave this workshop with therapeutic feeding techniques you can use with confidence the next day.

Available for 12 Credit Hours, 1.2 ASHA CEUs or 1.2 AOTA CEUs.