Challenges in Pediatric Dysphagia: Let's Figure it Out

McGill School of Communication Sciences and Disorders will be hosting a 2-day course by Prof. Joan Arvedson (PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow). This course will focus on how to problem solve complex swallowing and feeding issues in infants and children via lecture, videos, and case analyses. Targeted strategies will be discussed per evidence from sensorimotor learning principles & neural plasticity. Assessment and intervention goals optimize functional outcomes. Problem areas include: airway; GI tract (e.g., GERD and eosinophilic esophagitis); nutrition; tube feeding & weaning; barriers to successful oral feeding & ways to overcome them; picky eaters. This event is continuing education eligible.

Register Here

Registration Deadline: March 1st, 2017

REGISTRATION FEES INCLUDE:
Print course materials, mid-morning and mid-afternoon drinks/snacks and certificate of attendance. Lunch is on your own. 

About the Speaker:

Joan Arvedson

PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, ASHA Fellow

           Joan C. Arvedson is internationally renowned for her pioneering research, instruction, and clinical work in pediatric dysphagia. She is Program Coordinator of Feeding and Swallowing Services at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. She received her BS, MS, and PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was awarded Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 2016, which is ASHA’s highest distinction. Her leadership, clinical acumen, and research united therapeutic and medical/surgical disciplines. She has three text books in publication, two self-study publications for continuing education through ASHA Professional Development, and has more than 35 peer-reviewed articles and 12 book chapters. She has given more than 100 presentations at ASHA conventions, state conventions and national interdisciplinary conferences, as well as international lectures/seminars in 24 countries.

           While director of speech-language pathology and audiology at Children’s Hospital of Buffalo and as coordinator of feeding and swallowing services at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dr. Arvedson takes a holistic, comprehensive approach to clinical and instrumental assessment and intervention with infants and children.

Course Objectives:

1. Apply knowledge of airway problems to make management decisions for infants and young children with oropharyngeal dysphagia

2. Identify and modify barriers to successful oral feeding (e.g., nutrition, GI tract, allergy, & neurologic conditions)

3. Make assessment and management decisions for infants and children with complex underlying etiologies for dysphagia.

4. Utilize strategies for facilitating oral feeding in high-risk infants and children.

5. Demonstrate processes for advancing oral feeding in children who are tube feeders.

6. Implement intervention with a range of sensory and behavior based principles with picky eaters.

Course Schedule:

Day 1

Day 2

VENUE
McGill University downwtown campus. Given the current massive construction around the campus, the exact direction and location of the course venue will be sent to the participants a week before the conference.

Check out the directions to venue here! 

ACCOMODATION
For the hotels around the meeting venue, the informaion can be found here:
https://www.mcgill.ca/accommodations/mohp/downtown