Advanced Infant/Pediatric Dysphagia Course 2022

Advanced Infant/Pediatric Dysphagia is organized by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) and will be held from Aug 18 - 19, 2022 at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Support Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.

Description :
Two days of education with the expertise of a world-class clinician. This informative and timely seminar will provide you with the necessary information to improve your performance as an expert in feeding and swallowing for children and is a highly desired part of your team. The core of a successful differential diagnosis is the correlation of clinical information, co-morbidities (airway, GI, nutrition, neurological, oral motor, and sensory), and the infant's or child's behaviors. Utilize critical problem-solving abilities to diagnose with a complex nature and their interactions for NICU children from infants to school age. Learn about the most popular dysphagia-related topics (e.g. thickening swallow studies, NMES, tongue tie) problems in practice, and interactions between doctors and therapists. Discuss your difficult patients. The perfect place for the novice to learn as well as for those who are experienced and looking for a more advanced degree of problem-solving in difficult cases and professional concerns.
Learning Outcomes
Apply a system-based differential diagnosis that is specific to clinical presentations of feeding or swallowing issues.
Apply critical thinking to a range of difficult feeding/swallowing concerns
Examine complex feeding and swallowing diagnosis
Analyze the essential ideas, issues, and supporting data for at least three current "hot topics" in pediatric dysphagia
Navigate therapist-physician/team interactions

Seminar Content :
A complex interplay of the respiratory airway, GI, postural and sensory co-morbidities
Discussions and problem-solving to solve complicated diagnosis
Present challenges to the delivery of services across EI hospitals, schools, and other community settings
Wide range of interventions, and individualizing treatment plans specifically tailored to the clinical situation