GOMAP Infant and Toddler Feeding - June 7-8, 2024 ONLINE (SLP, OT)

Guided Oral Movements with Active Patterning focuses on the transition from deficit to optimal function for infant and toddler feeding.

By Amanda Chastain, MA, CCC-SLP, COM®

Date and time

Fri, Jun 7, 2024 6:30 AM - Sat, Jun 8, 2024 12:00 PM PDT

Location

Online

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About this event

1 day 5 hours

Day 1: 9:30-5:00pm EST

Day 2: 9:30-3:00pm EST

This professional education course is open to SLP, OT, and lactation professionals and reviews normal anatomy and physiology, normal and abnormal feeding/swallowing patterns, and the interconnected implications of breathing, orofacial development, digestion, and regulatory responses. Introduction to the etiological factors, identification process, and systemic change guided by treatment programs for pediatric feeding disorders will be provided. The GOMAP program targets clinical decision-making skills to support transition from deficit to optimal function for feeding with supporting literature and current research.

Contact Hours: 10 hours

Lactation Consultants (IBCLC, CLC) eligible to attend Day 1 only through a dedicated registration link. Please call 859-402-1553 with any questions.

This course is offered for 1.0 ASHA CEUs (intermediate, professional)

Organized by

Amanda Chastain, MA, CCC-SLP, COM®

Amanda Chastain is an ASHA (American Speech-Language Hearing Association) certified and Kentucky licensed Speech-Language Pathologist with specific focus in the areas of Orofacial Myology and Pediatric Feeding. She is a board certified orofacial myologist through the International Association of Orofacial Myology and a certified Breath Coach through Yoga Teacher's College. Amanda is the owner and director of The Speech Network Pediatric Feeding and Orofacial Myology Clinic in Lexington KY where she dedicates her focus of practice to infants and toddlers with feeding difficulties as well as teens and adults with orofacial myofunctional deficits. Amanda is the immediate past President of the International Association of Orofacial Myology (IAOM) and provides trainings for infant and toddler feeding through her GOMAP (Guided Oral Movement and Active Patterning) Program. You can follow The Speech Network on Instagram @TSNThrive to keep up with all the goodness growing there.