CPEU/CEU: 16
Course Expiration Date: 07/18/2026. You have until that date to complete your CPEU Evaluation or Webinar Feedback Survey for this course.
Beyond A Bite Professional Edition: Practical Approaches to Sensory and Feeding Challenges with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Neurodivergent Clients CE Course
Course Type: 720—Preapproved Self-Study Materials, Printed.
Includes CE Evaluation/Reporting Form: You will submit it online and receive your CE Certificate immediately.
Suggested Learning Level: 2
About This Course
Help your clients address sensory-related feeding and nutrition challenges. Incorporate a multidisciplinary and mindful approach through interactive activities. Feel confident troubleshooting challenges and making progress while keeping your client’s individual needs in mind. This is a valuable resource for any practitioner working with the neurodivergent pediatric clients!
Features:
- Background on the sensory system with specific strategies for sensory-smart and responsive feeding approaches
- Common feeding challenges, nutritional deficiencies and nutrition-related symptoms and strategies for addressing them
- 20 practical activities to use with clients and their families to improve nutritional status
- Strategies for including nutrient-dense foods to address deficiencies while accommodating sensory preferences and challenges
- How to help your clients and families reduce stress at the kitchen table while bringing a mindful approach to mealtimes
- How to work with a multidisciplinary feeding team, including SLPs and OTR/Ls
- How to educate caregivers on successfully incorporating the techniques for home use, including helpful phrases to foster positive communication and respect at mealtimes
- Tips for practicing mindful parenting during mealtimes
Written by Yaffi Lvova, RDN, owner of Baby Bloom Nutrition and co-author of Discover Mindful Eating for Kids, 2nd Ed, and Hana Eichele, MOT, OTR/L, YTT200, founder of Roots Pediatric Therapy in Arizona, this book is an essential resource for anyone working with the neurodiverse pediatric population. Beyond A Bite Professional Edition: Practical Approaches to Sensory and Feeding Challenges with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Neurodivergent Clients CE course provides pediatric practitioners with the knowledge and tools needed to tackle feeding challenges and improve outcomes in a practical and effective way.
Published 2021. 230 pages. 16 CPEU CE Course. See the PIs tab for suggested Performance Indicators.
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Looking for resources for parents and caregivers? Direct them to Beyond a Bite: Parent Edition.
Lea Peyton Gebhardt, Phd, RDN, LDN, Pediatric Feeding Specialist and Owner, Pantry Medicine –
As a feeding specialist, I found this book to be an invaluable resource for those professionals wanting to widen their breadth of practice with parent coaching and new food exposures for their clients. The practical advice given to help parents navigate the feeding relationship coupled with the clever feeding activities will enrich any practice with feeding therapy.
JoAnna Siciliano, RD, LDN, Children’s Hospital University of Illinois (CHUI) –
This is an amazing resource for the practitioner. The emphasis on nutrition and feeding approaches for the autism spectrum child, along with mindful parenting approaches for the caregiver–complete with dialogue and activities–enable the practitioner to address the needs of the whole family. I have been increasingly seeing this type of patient in my clinics. This resource will be highly beneficial to my practice and the providers I work with.
Lauren Elitzak, OTR/L, PT, DPT, Pediatric Occupational and Physical Therapist –
Beyond a Bite Professional Edition is an encouraging, inspiring and supportive set of suggestions, ideas and solutions for clinicians. This book welcomes the whole family to the table, and breaks down the steps to getting your clients to better participate in mealtimes, and to interact with foods in a variety of ways.
Lea P. Gebhardt, PhD, RDN, LDN –
Beyond a Bite is a valuable tool for any clinician working through challenging nutrition and feeding difficulties in the neurodivergent population. It offers readers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to feeding. This evidence-based look at nutrition, meal time challenges, stages of food acceptance, and family counseling techniques provides REAL, APPLICABLE, guidance to clinicians. The activities alone will definitely enrich your practice and patient feeding outcomes!