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    Beyond Picky Eating-Real strategies for Hyper-Selective Eaters

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    • Certified Occupational Therapy Asst
    • Occupational Therapist
    • Speech Language Pathologist
    • Speech Language Pathology Asst
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Course Description

“Beyond Picky Eating” is clinically grounded course designed for speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists working with children and teens who present with hyper-selective eating patterns. While many feeding challenges are labeled as “picky eating,” this course goes deeper—guiding clinicians to identify and treat the root causes of selective eating, including anxiety, sensory sensitivities, rigidity, and learned feeding patterns. Participants will learn how to move beyond surface-level strategies and develop a more nuanced clinical lens. The course will explore how caregiver accommodations, often well-intentioned, can unintentionally maintain feeding difficulties-and how to shift these patterns in a supportive, practical way. Through real-world case examples, clinicians will see how to assess, conceptualize, and intervene with hyper-selective eaters across a range of presentations. Emphasis is placed on building sustainable, home-based change through caregiver coaching, low-pressure exposure, and individualized intervention planning. Clinicians will leave with practical tools, scripts, and frameworks to confidently support families, reduce mealtime stress, and expand a child’s dietary variety. A perfect course for clinicians ready to dive deeper into the world of picky eating.

ATTENDANCE:

  1. Attend as part of the LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE in Gulf Breeze, Florida - Studio audience seats are limited - so register today!
  2. Attend via LIVE STREAM from anywhere around the world. Live stream participants will login to access the event from their computer.

NOTE:

  • This live event is streamed in real time. 
  • Course agenda is in Central time, please adjust for your time zone
  • Registrants who attend the live broadcast will be able to interact with instructor.
  • All registrants will have access to the broadcast recording for 14 days.
  • A group may view the course together, however each attendee must be individually registered in order to receive CE credit.

COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS:

  • Attend/view entire course
  • Pass multiple choice quiz (80% min score)
  • Complete online course evaluation

CEUs:

  • SLPs - this course is registered with ASHA as Blended Learning. ASHA CEUs may be earned by attending live, viewing the recording, or a combination of both.
  • OTs - Participants who need live hours for state license renewal must attend in real time yet, will still have access to the recording for 14 days.
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Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Differentiate between typical picky eating, hyper-selectivity, and more complex feeding presentations, and apply this understanding to clinical decision-making.
  • Identify and analyze the root causes of selective eating, including sensory processing differences, anxiety, rigidity, and environmental influences.
  • Recognize patterns of caregiver accommodation and explain how these patterns may maintain or reinforce feeding challenges.
  • Apply strategies to gently reduce accommodations while maintaining a supportive, therapeutic alliance with caregivers.
  • Employ strategies that target willingness to change and flexibility, including the use of mindfulness-based approaches to support reduced anxiety and increased participation with food.
  • Use effective coaching strategies and scripts to guide caregivers in responding to food refusal and mealtime challenges.
  • Apply clinical reasoning to case examples in order to assess, plan, and adapt interventions for hyper-selective eaters.

Kelly Komisaruk

M.Ed., CCC-SLP

Kelly Komisaruk, M.Ed. CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist specializing in feeding difficulties located in Florida. After gaining her education at Central Michigan University and The University of Virginia, she moved to Florida to pursue her career. After years of honing her skills working with children, she took on the challenge of being one of the initial therapists at Nemours Children’s Hospital in 2012. Always having a love of feeding, she was a founding member of the Nemours Childrens Hospital Outpatient and Inpatient Intensive Multidisciplinary Feeding Team helping to design and implement both programs. Today, after helping hundreds of children learn to love food, she is proud to offer her services both virtually and in person to the Central Florida area and beyond! She opened up her practice in Lake Nona in 2020 and has grown to offer feeding services to children, teens, and adults. She is about to open up her intensive brick and mortar feeding clinic in 2022 where she plans to expand the services she offers to families nationwide. She has specific interest in helping people with anxiety around food, food phobias, and helping other clinicians learn how to help others enjoy eating!

Financial Disclosure: Kelly receives honoraria from CIAO Seminars for the presentation of this course.
Non-Financial Disclosure: None

Day 1

07:30 - 08:00
Registration
08:00 - 08:30
Picky eating, hyper-selectivity, and Food Refusal-Figuring out the "why"
08:30 - 09:15
Sensory processing differences, anxiety, rigidity, and environmental influences-understanding the differences with "picky eaters"
09:15 - 09:45
Specific focus on ARFID: How to treat and understanding Sub-Types
09:45 - 10:00
Understanding Exposure Therapy and how it works
10:00 - 10:15
Break
10:15 - 10:45
Caregiver accommodation patterns, anxiety, and avoidance
10:45 - 11:15
The G.R.O.W, approach to feeding treatment-how it works and how to implement
11:15 - 12:00
Coaching caregivers through refusals using Case Study Examples
12:00 - 12:30
Assess, plan, and adapt interventions for hyper-selective eaters, Q/A

Delivery VIA:

  • Live By Request - This course is available to come to you! Contact us to see how easy that can be. mail@ciaoseminars.com
  • Live Stream - This course is offered from our Live Stream studio. Watch and interact with the instructor from wherever you are or join us as part of the studio audience in sunny Gulf Breeze, FL. Included with each Live Stream registration is access to the course recording for the 14 days immediately following the broadcast.

Contact hours pre-approved for:

  • 4 Hours
  • CIAO is an ASHA Approved Provider #AAWA (0.4 ASHA CEUs) bubble sheet submission required
  • ASHA CE Provider Approval and use of the Brand Block does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.
  • This course meets PDU requirements for NBCOT (4 PDUs)
  • CIAO is an Approved Provider for the Florida Board of Occupational Therapy
  • Approved for:
  • 4.5 Hrs. OT/COTAs in FL (CE Broker #20-1366930)
  • 4 Hrs. Registered with CEBroker for OT/COTAs in AL, AZ, GA, LA, MS, SC, TN

Course meets requirements for:

  • OT/COTAs in AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, LA, KS, KY, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT,
  • OT/COTAs in NE, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY

    • Introductory Level
    0.4 ASHA CEUs


    CIAO is recognized on the NBCOT Provider Registry (meets PDU requirements for NBCOT)


    CIAO Automatically reports to CE Broker for Florida Occupational and Physical Therapists and Assistants. Florida SLPs can either use the ASHA CE Participant Form (Bubble Sheet) or self-submit through CE Broker.


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