SOS Approach to Feeding: When Children Won’t Eat

SOS Approach to Feeding

When Children Won’t Eat:

Picky Eaters vs. Problems Feeders

**Official workshop**
The speakers will travel from the USA to Athens to provide in-person training to participants.

 
 
 
📣 In-person four-day training
📌 Athens
📅 October 29 – November 1, 2026

🕓 08:00 – 18:15

Preceded by 9 hours of pre-recorded online lecture material (video format).

👉 click HERE for the workshop's agenda

*These hours include the registration time of the participants and the breaks of the workshop.

✖ Limited number of participants
 
 
🗣 Speakers: 
Kay A. Toomey, PhD
Pediatric Psychologist
President of Toomey & Associates, Inc. 
Clinical Consultant to the Feeding Clinic at STAR Institute for Sensory Processing Disorder
 
Erin S. Ross, PhD, CCC-SLP
Neonatal and Pediatric Speech Pathologist
Assistant Clinical Professor at University of Colorado
Faculty at Rocky

👉 Workshop language: English with Greek Translation available

The focus of the Course  will be assessing and treating infants and young children with Feeding Difficulties and Feeding Disorders.  This includes “problem feeders” who may have mild to moderate neurological impairments and/or medical disorders, children with Autism Spectrum disorders, children with motor, oral-motor and/or sensory dysfunction, as well as the “picky eater”.  
 
 
TRAINING OVERVIEW

The Sequential Oral Sensory (S.O.S) Approach to Feeding is a trans-disciplinary program for assessing and treating children with feeding difficulties and weight/growth problems from birth to 18 years. It integrates posture, sensory, motor, behavioral/learning, medical, and nutritional factors to comprehensively evaluate and manage children with feeding/growth problems.

• Attendees receive foundational information regarding feeding development, evaluation, and SOS Treatment.

• Training is delivered in a Hybrid format (pre-recorded online and in-person segments).

- The Online Segment consists of 6 Chapters totaling 9 hours of lecture and client videos.

- The In-Person Segment includes lecture, client videos, case presentations, hands-on exercises, and group activities.

• Attendees receive a Certificate of Completion that is eligible for submission to Professional Organizations for Continuing Education Hours earned during course.

 
TRAINING OBJECTIVES
­­­­Participants attending will be able to:

1. List the seven areas of human function that need to be examined to provide a comprehensive Feeding Assessment.

2. Identify at least five of the oral, sensory, motor, cognitive or emotional developmental milestones key to being able to eat well.

3. List three reasons why children won’t eat, as based on learning theory principles.

4. Differentiate classical and operant conditioning principles as applied to resolving feeding problems.

5. Identify at least four of the necessary components of an SOS Approach to Feeding program for babies, toddlers, and young children in either an individual or group therapy session.

6. List all three requirements for building a Food Hierarchy.

7. Identify at least one play based strategy for progressing a child up each of the 6 major Steps on the Steps to Eating Hierarchy.

 
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Registered Dietitians, Special Education Teachers, Psychologists, Physical Therapists, Early Intervention Specialists, Nurses, Physicians, and Mental Health Workers. 

*Training Courses are created for professionals. If parents wish to attend the training workshop, they must be accompanied by their child’s feeding therapist.
 
 
✔ Tuition fees include:
📘 printed material
📜 the course certificate is issued by SOS Approach to Feeding
☕ coffee at breaks
🍔 lunch

*** Click HERE for the attendance & policies.

❕ REGISTRATIONS ❕ 

📞 +30 6986180630

📧 edu@diepistimoniko.gr