Description

Handouts

Outline

• Complex Feeding Issues
  • Common misconceptions explained
  • Overlap of sensory processing skills, oral motor skills and behaviors
  • Normal development key points
• Evaluation of Feeding Skills
  • Observations: sensory or behavior responses
  • Oral motor evaluation for jaw, lips, and tongue strength and range of motion for feeding
  • Foods that give you information quick
  • Quick sensory tasks for a sensory profile
  • Case study: Putting it all together.
  • Video of evaluations, and case studies
• Techniques and Treatment Strategies
  • Autism
    • Address food jags
    • Make food fun: sticks, cubes and more to increase oral motor skills
    • Address mealtime behaviors such as not sitting and throwing food
    • Easy ways to regulate arousal at the table using breathing and proprioceptive input
    • Systemic desensitization to address tactile over responsivity
    • Video case study
  • Cerebral Palsy
    • Oral motor exercises to promote rotary chewing, tongue lateralization and lip closure
    • Easy techniques to Increase under responsivity
    • Tone management for increased range of motion in lips and cheeks
    • Hand to mouth connection
    • Handling and seating techniques
    • Exercises to decrease tongue thrust
    • Sensory input to increase oral motor muscle responsivity
    • Stretching the oral facial muscle to regulate
    • tone for chewing and straw drinking
    • Video case examples
  • Other Development Delays (Down Syndrome, Failure to Thrive, and Global Delays)
    • Easy sensory techniques for children with decreased vision and cortical vision impairment
    • Address cognitive delays using sensory processing and motor skills
    • Oral motor exercises and “mealtime concepts” for children who do not eat by mouth
    • Failure to thrive: make fun food and increase interest
    • Video case examples
  • Promote Carry- Over at Home
    • Education of family and caregiver on complexity of feeding
    • Create peaceful mealtime at home through routine
    • Easy oral motor exercises during play and mealtimes
    • Easy sensory activities to promote attention and regulation during mealtime

Faculty

Jessica Hunt, OTR/L

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Jessica Hunt is an occupational therapist. She is well-known for her experience in treating sensory processing disorders in children. She brings her expertise to the home setting through her company J.L. Hunt. Jessica worked for 10 years at Kaufman Children’s Center as the director of occupational therapy and sensory integration programs, and then as the director of feeding and oral motor programs. She studied with Lucy Jane Miller, PhD, who is nationally recognized for sensory research, education, and treatment, and is certified in sensory integration.

Jessica graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in occupational therapy. She gained expertise in picky eating, oral-motor therapy, and other topics through trainings that include, the Beckman Protocol, and Talk Tools, behaviors issues with feeding, and treating medically challenging children. Craniofacial therapy, advanced training in Therapeutic Listening System, and Handwriting without Tears are some of the things she’s trained in. The Michigan Occupational Therapy Association Award of excellence was given to Jessica.

Speaker disclosures.

Financial: Jessica Hunt has a private practice. She is paid by PESI, Inc.

Non-financial is not financial. Jessica Hunt does not have a relevant non-financial relationship.