On Demand

Rethinking Our TRY IT! Strategies

with Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, M. Ed., FAOTA
Estimated release December 2024

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Course Description

We take an in depth look at the concept of TRY IT! As feeding therapists, we have often relied on strategies for helping children try new foods, different foods, more foods, in support of parent goals to expand their child’s food choices. Many strategies have worked well, and others have left children and their families stressed and stuck. We will explore evidence that informs the influences of motivation, autonomy , safety, sensory processing differences, pressure and stress have on enjoyment in new food trying and food choices and preferences. 

We will look at how to responsively read a child’s communication about what works for their unique body and strategize how to adapt options of food interaction and therapeutic support based on responsively adapting for “this” child in “this” moment.

In this 2.5 hour webinar, you will learn to:

  • List the components of enjoying food and eating

  • Describe the role of internal and external motivation on “TRY IT”

  • Describe the influence of pressure or stress on “TRY IT!”

  • Describe a shift from “TRY IT!” to “try it?”

  • List strategies we can role model or teach client and families that can be considered in “new food trying” that work with individual sensory profiles

Audience

This intermediate level course is appropriate for OTs, SLPs, PTs, assistants, educators, early intervention providers, parents/caregivers, and other professionals (social workers, nurses, registered dietitians, etc.) working with children with feeding challenges. Please contact us at [email protected] with any needs regarding accommodations. 

CEU Info

Certificates of attendance will be issued once participation in the full 2.5 hour course has been verified. Please allow up to two weeks for release of certificates. Check with your professional organizations licensing bodies to determine exactly what may be accepted for you. This course is eligible for ASHA’s professional development hour requirements. You will not require ASHA pre-approval for this. See here [https://www.asha.org/certification/FactDef/] for more information. This course is eligible for AOTA credits. Please check your state’s guidelines for specific information about this continuing education activity may apply to your state’s CEU guidelines.

Instructor

Founder and Senior Instructor Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, MED, FAOTA

Marsha is a pediatric occupational therapist who has specialized in pediatric feeding for more than 50 years. She has co-authored Pre-Feeding Skills, First Edition, Pre-Feeding Skills: Second Edition, Mealtime Participation Guide, and Homemade Blended Formula with Suzanne Evans Morris, Ph.D., CCC-SLP. She co-authored Feeding and Nutrition for the Child with Special Needs with Tracy Delaney. Her newest book is Anxious Eaters, Anxious Mealtimes: Practical and Compassionate Strategies for Mealtime Peace. Marsha presents nationally and internationally. She is a food celebrator and is passionate about supporting children and their families.

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Cancellations

Cancellations must be in writing and will incur a $10 fee. We are unable to give refunds once 20% of the course has been viewed. If the Get Permission Institute or speaker should need to cancel, course fees will be refunded or transferred to another course at the discretion of the participant.