This engaging course delivers a wealth of information on assessment and treatments that focus on the trunk, respiration, swallowing skills, and oral motor functioning, as well as mealtime strategies to improve feeding in infants and children with neuromuscular impairments.
This course delivers clinically relevant assessment and treatment strategies for infants and children (birth through 21 years of age) with neuromuscular impairments and challenges to their oral motor, feeding/swallowing and respiratory function. A special emphasis is on postural alignment and control as well as on sensory factors that can influence a child’s feeding and swallowing. Effective treatment strategies to improve cheeks/lips, tongue, jaw and rib cage function will be highlighted. Participants will engage in extensive clinical problem-solving via group case analysis and patient demonstration sessions.
Participants will be able to apply course learning immediately to:
Clinically assess oral motor, feeding/swallowing and respiratory coordination function in infants and young children
Detail the essential components of comprehensive intervention programming for young children with neuromuscular involvement
Implement effective body alignment, positioning for the modification of oral motor, oral-pharyngeal and respiratory function in intervention programming
Perform treatment strategies to improve the function of the cheeks/lips, tongue, jaw and rib cage in children with neuromuscular involvement
Rona Alexander, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, C/NDT is a speech-language pathologist specializing in the assessment and treatment of oral, pharyngeal, feeding/swallowing, and respiratory coordination function in infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with primary neuromotor, musculoskeletal, and sensory systems impairments. She maintains a private practice; provides consultation services; provides short-term treatment intensives; and conducts workshops/courses/seminars/webinars on oral movement, oral sensory, pharyngeal, feeding/swallowing, and thoracic cage/respiratory coordination development, assessment, and treatment.
Dr. Alexander is an active advanced speech instructor in Neuro-Developmental Treatment (NDT). She has contributed chapters on oral, pharyngeal, feeding/swallowing, and rib cage/respiratory coordination function to numerous publications; is co-author of the book entitled, Normal Development of Functional Motor Skills: The First Year of Life; is author of the CEU product, Focus on the Rib Cage for Improvement of Respiration, Phonation, Movement, and Postural Control; and is co-developer of the CEU product, The ABCs of Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing.
DISCLOSURES:
Rona Alexander receives an honorarium from Education Resources, Inc., as well as royalty payments from Clinician's View and a co-author of the book published by The Hammill Institute on Disabilities. Non-Financial: She is a member of the NDTA and the NDTA Instructor Group.
"Rona's understanding of the relationship between the body's anatomy and the body's function gave me an understanding of the mechanics of feeding I haven't had prior. She is a wealth of information on pediatric development."- -SLP
Rona presented incredible information that relates to all disciplines. She taught fantastic strategies for efficient everyday practice. - T -Brian C. Perkowski, PT.
Rona is an excellent speaker with a wealth of up to date,functional information. One of the best courses I have attended. - -Erica K. Wentzel, MOT, OTR/L
"The best course I've been to, all information I can use on Monday when I get back to work! Any pediatric SLP should take this course."- -Melissa Eck, SLP
"This course gave me a new perspective on how I look at a lot of my patients. I am excited to try out new strategies!"- -Jessica Neves, PT
"Excellent workshop. Huge amount of update - even for a therapist with 40 yrs of pediatric experience! Able to cue in to current philiosophies and treatment regimes for immediate affect on the treatments I do in the medically fragile setting. Thank you"- -Cynthia Johnson, O
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This course meets the criteria for 17.5 contact hours (1.75 CEUs).
Education Resources Inc. is an Approved Agency by the Physical Therapy Board of California.
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