DAY ONE PROGRAMME

Time

Content

Chair: Kelly Weir

Presenters: Various presenters-researchers from across the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia.

8.30-9.00

Registration

9.00-10.30

Session 1: Paediatric Dysphagia and Paediatric Feeding Disorder vs ARFID

·     Definitions and Frameworks

·     Differential Diagnosis

·     International Variations in Scope of Practice.

10.30-11.00

Break

11.00-12.30

Session 2: Evidence-based Clinical Feeding Evaluation

·     Screening tools

·     Standardised clinical assessments

·     Parent (proxy) Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

·     Parent Reported Experience Measures & Quality of Life Tools

·     Eating and Drinking Classification tools

12.30-1.30

Lunch

1.30-3.00

Session 3: Instrumentation to support the Clinical Feeding Evaluation and the evaluation process – What it is, how it works, and what’s the evidence.

·     Cervical auscultation

·     Ultrasound

·     Pharyngeal Manometry

3.00-3.30

Break

3.30-5.00

Session 4: Instrumental Evaluation

·     Advances with the Paediatric Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study

·     Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing in infants and children

·     Case: Contribution of different instrumental assessments for a child with a complex condition:  FEES, VFSS & Manometry

·     Day 1 Wrap Up.