This session—a recorded session from ASHA’s 2020
Schools Connect conference—explores how to use the International Classification of
Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework to develop comprehensive
feeding support and caregiver training plans for children with complex medical
needs. The speaker discusses the multifaceted impact medical complexities have
on oral feeding and how the ICF framework can influence the assessment of a
child’s feeding needs.
Related Courses
This course is part of Key Courses on Feeding and Swallowing in Schools.
Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:
- Using
the ICF, list elements of assessment that can impact oral feeding in children
with medical complexities
- Develop
appropriate feeding support plans using the components of ICF as a roadmap
- Train
caregivers engaged in feeding medically complex children
Presenter Information
Marianne E. Gellert-Jones, MA, CCC-SLP, has been working
in pediatrics for over 30 years. She has spent her career
focusing on providing speech-language, AAC, and
feeding/dysphagia services within the pediatric population.
Since October 1998, she has been on staff at the HMS School
for Children with Cerebral Palsy, where she holds positions as
both a speech-language pathologist and as the school’s
clinical feeding specialist. During her time at HMS, she has
initiated school-wide programs that address the issues of
feeding/dysphagia, respiration, and communication/AAC. In
her current role as the clinical feeding specialist at HMS, she is
charged with providing feeding training for all educational and clinical staff, as well as
completing in-depth feeding assessments, as needed, for all students. She has
presented numerous presentations and workshops in the areas of feeding,
speech/language/AAC, and respiration for interprofessional colleagues and families of
children with complex medical needs. Gellert-Jones previously held appointments as a
speech-language pathologist at Thomas Jefferson University Children’s Rehabilitation
Hospital and as a dysphagia specialist at the Children’s Seashore House Pediatric
Center for Dysphagia and Feeding Management. She completed her training and is
certified in Pediatric Neuro-Developmental Treatment and continues her training to
include advanced course work in NDT, dysphagia, and respiration.
Financial Disclosures:
- Employee of HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy
- Complimentary Connect registration
Nonfinancial Disclosures:
Assessment Type
Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.
To earn continuing education credit, you must complete the learning assessment by the end date below.
Program History and CE Information
Content origination date: July 8, 2020
End date: July 8, 2025
This course is offered for 0.15 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).
