Course Overview

Jess Kirton shares key information about the steps towards managing new foods, so parents can understand some of the contributing difficulties a child who struggles to eat can face. As always, Jess shares straightforward strategies that families can try out straight away to support a child to be ready to take on the challenge of trying something new.

What you will learn

  • A step-by-step approach following the key stages towards eating a new food
  • Reduce frustration and anxiety for both children and parents over meal times where sensory challenges impact the range of foods a child feels safe to eat
  • Simple and low-cost strategies to fit in with everyday family life

Course curriculum

    1. How to use this course

    2. Meet the course leader, Jess Kirton

    1. Welcome

    2. What we are going to cover in this course

    3. What we are not going to cover in this course

    1. The impact of eating difficulties for babies

    2. The wider effect of eating difficulties for school-aged children

    3. The impact of eating difficulties across the whole lifespan

    1. Sensory modulation and introducing new foods

    2. Interoception (Inner body signals)

    3. Gustatory System (Taste)

    4. Olfactory System (Smell)

    5. Tactile System (Touch)

    6. Visual (Sight)

    7. Auditory (Hearing)

    1. The steps to eating

    2. Developmental food continuum

    3. Food jags

    4. Family meals

    1. Hunger awareness strategies

    2. Look/Sniff/Touch/Kiss/Lick/Taste

    3. Big plate, little plate and other food presentation strategies

    4. Food play

    5. Oral motor play to decrease oral sensitivities

    6. Dealing with sounds

About this course

  • 32 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

Lecturer

Jessica Kirton

Occupational Therapist and Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner

I am an Occupational Therapist and Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner. I have been working as a Children's Occupational Therapist for 11 years in a range of settings including NHS, private practice, special schools, mainstream schools and specialist intervention for early years. I have also completed some voluntary work overseas. I have set up OT services across schools and worked as a Lead OT. I am now a self-employed independent therapist pursuing my dream to set up my own practice alongside working as a lecturer for Sensory Integration Education.

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