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Sensory Considerations in Pediatric Feeding: A Whole-Child, Evidence-Informed Approach
Jennifer Berry, MS, OT/L and Heidi Liefer Moreland MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, CLC
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Estimated availability March 2026
Course Description
Sensory Considerations in Pediatric Feeding: A Whole-Child, Evidence-Informed Approach offers clinicians a clearer, more comprehensive way to understand how children experience food, mealtimes, and feeding demands. Instead of focusing narrowly on a child’s outward sensory presentation, this course helps providers look beneath the surface to understand the body-based, relational, experiential, and task-specific factors that shape a child’s sensory processing and participation in feeding.
Through a responsive, strengths-based lens, participants will learn how context, co-regulation, stress, and environmental conditions influence sensory interpretation and readiness for engagement. The course provides practical frameworks and clinical reasoning tools to identify what a child needs for optimal sensory processing, and to support families with strategies that honor individual differences, build trust, and create the conditions for meaningful progress.
In this 1.5 hour webinar, you will learn to:
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Explain how context—including environment, relationships, and culture—affects sensory processing in pediatric feeding.
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Identify how task elements and demands impact a child’s sensory processing during feeding.
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Describe how stress, safety, and prior learning shape a child’s sensory interpretation of feeding experiences.
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Recognize the conditions that support optimal sensory processing during feeding.
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Identify responsive, strengths-based strategies that align with a whole-child, evidence-informed approach to feeding.
Audience
This intermediate level course is appropriate for Pediatric dietitians, feeding therapists, 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 will be issued verifying participation in 1.5 hours of continuing education once you complete the quiz and achieve a 100% score. 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
GPI Perspectives Instructors Jennifer Berry OT/L and Heidi Liefer Moreland, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, CLC
Jennifer Berry
Jennifer Berry is an occupational therapist and feeding specialist with Thrive by Spectrum Pediatrics. Jennifer has more than 2 decades of experience helping children overcome challenges they face when it comes to eating. Using her extensive knowledge of learning, sensory processing, attachment, and motor skill development, Jennifer facilitates children's abilities to trust, understand and relate to food now and long into the future. Coaching parents into confidence around feeding their kids and family mealtimes brings her great joy and impactful results to the families she serves. Jennifer supports families virtually and in-person through family mealtime coaching, remote responsive feeding therapy, and the Thrive by Spectrum Pediatrics Feeding Tube Weaning Program.
Heidi Liefer Moreland
Heidi is a speech therapist and feeding specialist with Thrive by Spectrum Pediatrics. Heidi is a self-proclaimed “research geek”, but also has 30 years of practical experience in working with children. For the last 25 years she has specialized in working with children who have feeding challenges in a variety of settings. Relying on her training in communication, childhood development and feeding and swallowing development, Heidi helps children develop a trusting relationship with food that allows their skills to flourish. She loves helping children and families work together to develop happy and healthy mealtime communication and habits that will last and grow as they do. Heidi supports families virtually and in-person, and is a frequent speaker on pediatric feeding problems and treatment nationally and internationally.
Jennifer Berry is an occupational therapist and feeding specialist with Thrive by Spectrum Pediatrics. Jennifer has more than 2 decades of experience helping children overcome challenges they face when it comes to eating. Using her extensive knowledge of learning, sensory processing, attachment, and motor skill development, Jennifer facilitates children's abilities to trust, understand and relate to food now and long into the future. Coaching parents into confidence around feeding their kids and family mealtimes brings her great joy and impactful results to the families she serves. Jennifer supports families virtually and in-person through family mealtime coaching, remote responsive feeding therapy, and the Thrive by Spectrum Pediatrics Feeding Tube Weaning Program.
Heidi Liefer Moreland
Heidi is a speech therapist and feeding specialist with Thrive by Spectrum Pediatrics. Heidi is a self-proclaimed “research geek”, but also has 30 years of practical experience in working with children. For the last 25 years she has specialized in working with children who have feeding challenges in a variety of settings. Relying on her training in communication, childhood development and feeding and swallowing development, Heidi helps children develop a trusting relationship with food that allows their skills to flourish. She loves helping children and families work together to develop happy and healthy mealtime communication and habits that will last and grow as they do. Heidi supports families virtually and in-person, and is a frequent speaker on pediatric feeding problems and treatment nationally and internationally.
Watch at Your Own Pace!
Estimated availability March 2026!
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Register Now
$59.00
Cancellations
Cancellations must be in writing. We are unable to issue a refund if more than 10% of the course has been viewed. If the Get Permission Institute should need to remove course content for any reason, course fees will be refunded or transferred to another course at the discretion of the participant.