AEIOU: An Integrated Approach to Pediatric Feeding (August 2024)

Take your pediatric feeding skills to the next level! Help children explore food, enjoy eating, participate independently in social mealtimes, and thrive. Gain the expertise, practical strategies, and clinical tools you need to make a lasting impact on the lives of children with feeding challenges. 

20-hour comprehensive professional training program in pediatric feeding, in a hybrid online format. 3 live broadcast sessions on Mondays at 7pm (US Eastern Time -please adjust for your time zone)  August 12, 19, & 26 with self-paced on-demand video modules assigned each week. 

*This is an intensive course.  Please allow time in your schedule during each week for the self-paced video modules.  

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• Private course community with instructor support throughout the course
• Must attend all 3 live broadcast sessions (live sessions are NOT recorded) 
• BONUS "Extend Your Learning" lessons
• BONUS handouts and downloads 
• Comprehensive course manual with extensive references and resources. 
•  Continued access to all the modules, resources, and course community for an additional month after the course

This course is for licensed/registered therapists and related medical professionals only.

Comprehensive Professional Training Program praised by both new and experienced therapists!

Whether you are a new therapist looking to expand your knowledge or an experienced therapist seeking to sharpen your skills, this course is designed to transform your practice. This course will challenge you to think holistically to develop family-centered, compassionate, and individualized intervention plans for infants and young children with mild to complex etiologies.  AEIOU- Acceptance, Exposure, Independence, Observation and Understanding – it’s a framework for addressing pediatric feeding disorders that prioritizes child autonomy, family relationships, and authentic connections. It’s an integrated, evidenced-based, and responsive feeding approach that is trauma-informed, and neurodiversity-affirming. By applying this highly successful framework, you will know how to proceed to meet children and families where they are, provide effective family coaching and parent training, and make progress! Learn to manage feeding tube dependency, address texture transitions and progression, treat sensory food aversions, advance chewing and cup drinking skills, develop utensil use and independent eating skills, improve dietary variety and nutrition, and much more! Many strategies and accommodations are discussed to address the needs of those with prematurity and other medical comorbidities, allergies, autism, growth and nutrition concerns, tracheostomy, picky eating, tongue and lip ties, children with various syndromes, and more. You will leave with extensive knowledge, practical information, and many resources to use the next day!