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Please mail the enclosed Registration

form to:

Curative Care Network

1000 N. 92nd Street
Milwaukee, WI

Kim Maggiori, VP Child & Youth Services

Curative Care Network
1000 N. 92nd Street
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Visa, Mastercard and Checks payable
to Curative Care Network are accepted
forms of tender.

Disclosures

Directions:
Take Highway 45 to the Wisconsin
Avenue exit.
Take Wisconsin Avenue east to
92nd Street.
Turn left (north) onto 92nd Street.
Enter the parking lot through the
Curative Automated Parking Gate
to your right.

No course planner or presenter has

disclosed any relevant financial or nonfinancial commercial relationships.

Wisconsin Avenue
92nd Street

This course is offered for a maximum of 1.30

ASHA CEUs (Advanced level, Professional area).
CEUs are based on participants actual class
hours. Agenda is subject to change based on
instructor preference and time available.
For complete financial and non-financial planner
and presenter disclosures please visit
www.curative.org/speaker

Please note Watertown Plank Road is closed

due to construction.

Pediatric Feeding
and Swallowing:
Decision Making
with Complex Issues
Friday, May 2, 2014
Saturday, May 3, 2014
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Curative Care Network
1000 N. 92nd Street
Milwaukee, WI

Course Overview

Target Audience

This course focuses on problem solving

for infants and children with complex
swallowing and feeding issues.
Lecture, videos, and case analysis
provide comprehensive strategies to
carry out assessment and intervention
to optimize functional outcomes.
Complex issues include: airway
complications; GI tract problems
(e.g., gastroesophageal reflux and
eosinophilic esophagitis); tube feeding
and how to wean; identification of
barriers to successful oral feeding and
ways to overcome them; picky eaters.

Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologists and Occupational Therapists working with preterm infants through school age (greater focuses on pre-term through 6-8 years).

Course Objectives
Apply knowledge of airway issues to
decision making for management of
oropharyngeal dysphagia in infants
and young children.
Identify and modify barriers to
successful oral feeding (e.g.,
nutrition, GI tract, and allergy issues).
Assess and make management
decisions for infants and children
with complex underlying etiologies
for dysphagia.
Apply strategies for facilitating oral
feeding in pre-term and other high
risk infants and advancing oral
feeding in tube feeders of all ages.
Implement strategies involving
sensory and behavior principles for
intervention with picky eaters.

Keynote Speaker:
Joan Arvedson, PhD, CCC-SLP, BRS-S is an internationally renowned clinician and
teacher. She is Program Coordinator of Feeding and Swallowing Services at Childrens
Hospital of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. She is Clinical Professor in the Division of
Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
Dr. Arvedson received her BS, MS, and PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She
is an ASHA Fellow.
Dr. Arvedson has focused patient care, teaching, and research on swallowing and
feeding disorders in infants and children, delivering evidence-based knowledge and
immediately applicable strategies via workshops and seminars throughout the world.
She emphasizes a functional whole child approach stressing the importance of
collaboration among professionals and caregivers.
She has 3 books in publication: Interpretation of Videofluoroscopic Swallow Studies of
Infants and Children: A study guide to improve diagnostic skills and treatment planning,
2007, Northern Speech Services; Pediatric Swallowing and Feeding: Assessment
and Management, 2nd edition, 2002, with L. Brodsky, MD, Delmar Cengage Learning;
Pediatric Videofluoroscopic Swallow Studies: A Profesional Manual with Caregiver
Guidelines, 1999 (with M. Lefton-Greif, PhD), Pearson Publishing. Dr. Arvedson has
numerous articles focused on pediatric swallowing and feeding in peer reviewed
journals.

Cooperative offering by
University Wisconsin-Milwaukee & Curative Care Network

Registration Deadline: April 15, 2014

PLEASE SUBMIT REGISTRATION FORM & PAYMENT TO:
Kim Maggiori, VP Child & Youth Services
Curative Care Network
1000 N. 92nd Street
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Fax: 414-259-0575

Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing: Decision Making with Complex Issues

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*Please note snacks will be provided. Lunch will not be provided, however we can direct you to nearby restaurant.