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Intervention in the NICU: Developmental Feeding Support

Course: #5535Level: Intermediate 1 Hour 30 Reviews

Achieving full oral feeding is often the final barrier to discharge from the NICU whether an infant is a healthy premature infant – “feeder grower”, or a more medically complex extremely premature or term infant. This webinar will describe interventions to promote positive oral feeding experiences and support oral feeding skill development for all infants in the NICU and will include a discussion of different bottles/nipples.

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Learning Outcomes

  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to identify three strategies to promote pleasurable oral experience before an infant begins to orally feed from the breast or bottle.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to identify two strategies to support an infant’s state regulation, self calming and energy conservation during handling.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to identify positional strategies to support an infant’s oral feeding development.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to identify the main differences between commercially available bottle/nipple systems.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to identify strategies to support an infant’s oral feeding skill development during bottle or breast feeding.

Agenda

0-10 Minutes Introduction and overview
10-20 Minutes Strategies to promote pleasurable oral experience prior to oral feeding
20-55 Minutes Strategies to support oral feeding; bottle characteristics
55-60 Minutes Resources/Questions

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American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn.

Intermediate Level
0.1 ASHA CEUs


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Speech-Language and Audiology Canada

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