This 1-day introductory course has been developed for Support Assistants/Workers, Conductors, Teaching/Care Staff, and other professionals who directly assist children with Cerebral Palsy and related motor disorders to eat and drink.

The course offers Awareness Level Training under the Inter Professional Dysphagia Framework. Lectures and workshops will give a basic knowledge of typical feeding development and the difficulties children with motor disorders have with eating & drinking skills. Areas covered include: aspiration and reflux, home/school intervention and management techniques.

Key Outcomes:

> Understand the anatomy, physiology and developmental progression of eating & drinking

> Identifying eating & drinking difficulties

> Recognise signs/risk of aspiration

> Recognise signs of reflux

> Practice texture modification and techniques for safety and skill development

Delegates are encouraged to bring examples of children they work with.