Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating

Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating is organized by Wolf Rinke Associates, Inc. This program has been approved for a maximum of 16 CPEUs.

• Course Expires: 7/24/2023

Overview and Instructions:
Welcome to the pre-approved, accredited CPE program for Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating. The program consists of a book of the same title by Katja Rowell, MD, and Jenny McGlothlin, MS, SLP, and this study guide. This CPE program is designed to help you guide your patients/clients in overcoming selective eating, food aversion, and feeding disorders. It is also designed to help you earn 16 Level 2, Continuing Professional Education Units (CPEUs).

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this CPE program, you will be better able to:

• Explain the terminology of common pediatric feeding problems.
• Recognize “typical” eating in the pediatric population.
• Identify the components of the “worry cycle” and how it can interfere with feeding choices.
• Assess sources of parental anxiety associated with extreme picky eating.
• Identify what underlying challenges – medical, emotional, physical, and neurological - a child may be experiencing.
• Recommend how to decrease feeding power struggles between parent/caregiver and child.
• Explain the components of the STEPS approach to feeding therapy.
• Recommend strategies for establishing a structured feeding routine.
• Emphasize the importance of family meals.
• Evaluate the different consistencies/textures of foods.
• Discuss what a parent/caregiver’s role is like during the STEPS approach to feeding therapy.
• Suggest how to build bridges to new food acceptance.
• Recommend ways to build oral-motor/sensory skills for children outside of feeding therapy.
• Assess the stages of progress that a child/caregiver may experience beyond the STEPS approach.