Feeding Treatment Boot Camp E-Course

Course Description:

Are you an SLP or OT and are struggling to treat Pediatric Feeding Disorder or Selective Feeding Disorder? This Feeding Treatment Boot Camp E-Course will give you the nuts and bolts of feeding therapy, so you have solid tools for evaluating and treating kids as soon as you go back to work! 

Build your confidence evaluating and treating a variety of children with sensory, behavioral, and oral motor concerns so you know how to plan your sessions and counsel parents. From evaluation to discharge, we will cover case studies, sensory and behavioral feeding treatment techniques, and what to do in tricky situations. Leave this course feeling ready to take on complex and challenging feeding patients including children with sensory concerns, ASD, oral motor deficits, gastrointestinal concerns, and more. Ready to get started? Click here to enroll!

Course Requirements:

• Computer with internet and working speakers/sound are required for this course.
• Course must be completed within 30 days of activation (activate course within 6 months of purchase).
• An online multiple-choice quiz (80% passing score) and submission of an online evaluation form are required for successful completion.
• A certificate of completion will be available to print immediately after course is successfully completed.
• SLPs - ASHA CEUs may be obtained by completing the online ASHA form and checking the "Report to ASHA" box.

Course Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Complete a comprehensive feeding evaluation with confidence
• Explain the importance medical implications have on feeding disorders
• List two reasons why feeding difficulties can be so hard to treat
• Recognize the similarities and differences between treatment approaches and why this matters
• Recommend treatment approaches for various case studies
• Describe how other medical professionals play a role in feeding therapy and how to utilize them
• Recommend treatment options and therapy approaches to parents and caregivers
• Explain the importance of family support and parent buy-in

Instructor:

Kelly Komisaruk, M.Ed. CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist specializing in feeding difficulties located in Florida. After gaining her education at Central Michigan  University and The University of Virginia, she moved to Florida to pursue her career. After years of honing her skills working with children, she took on the challenge of being one of the initial therapists at Nemours Children’s Hospital in 2012. Always having a love of feeding, she was a founding member of the Nemours Childrens Hospital Outpatient and Inpatient Intensive Multidisciplinary Feeding Team helping to design and implement both programs. Today, after helping hundreds of children learn to love food, she is proud to offer her services both virtually and in person to the Central Florida area and beyond! She opened up her practice in Lake Nona in 2020 and has grown to offer feeding services to children, teens, and adults. She opened her intensive brick and mortar feeding clinic in 2022 where she expanded the services she offers to families nationwide. She has specific interest in helping people with anxiety around food, food phobias, and helping other clinicians learn how to help others enjoy eating!