Level: Intermediate

Intended Audience: Clinicians, teachers, mental health and medical professionals, parents, students, caregivers

Prerequisite: None

Presenter: Kay Toomey, PhD is a Pediatric Psychologist who has worked with children who don’t eat for almost 30 years. She has developed the SOS Approach to Feeding as a family centered program for assessing and treating children with Feeding Problems. Dr. Toomey speaks nationally and internationally about her approach. She also acts as a consultant to Gerber Products. Dr. Toomey helped to form The Children’s Hospital – Denver’s Pediatric Oral Feeding Clinic, as well as the Rose Medical Center’s Pediatric Feeding Center. Dr. Toomey co-chaired the Pediatric Therapy Services Department at Rose Medical Center prior to entering private practice. Dr. Toomey is currently the President of Toomey & Associates, Inc., as well as the Clinical Director of SOS Feeding Solutions at STAR Institute with Dr. Lucy Jane Miller.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to identify the differences between Dr. Miller’s model for intensive Occupational Therapy and a “task driven” Occupational Therapy model which impact intensive Feeding Therapy
2. Participants will be able to outline an Intensive Feeding Therapy model using the SOS Approach to Feeding
3. Participants will be able to list at least 5 Occupational Therapy strategies which will support children being successful in Intensive Feeding Therapy

Continuing Education: STAR Institute for Sensory Processing Disorder is an AOTA Approved Provider of Continuing Education. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.