Online Continuing Education Courses

The Basics of Feeding

• Define 5 factors that influence feeding, eating, and mealtime occupations.
• Outline the sequence of typical feeding and self-feeding skills.
• Describe how feeding contributes to and reflects the parent-child relationship.
• Analyze how a disability can interfere with feeding interactions.
• Explain the evaluation of and intervention for oral sensory and motor impairments as they affect feeding skills of children.
• Define and describe swallowing disorders and intervention for swallowing problems.