Courses

Join Erin on a journey to deepen your understanding and skills in feeding therapy with courses designed to nourish meaningful connections at mealtime. Whether you're a caregiver or clinician, Erin’s courses offer compassionate, trauma-informed insights for working with neurodivergent and medically complex children. Nourishing Meaningful Mealtime provides a foundational approach for those new to supporting children with feeding differences, focusing on core principles that empower authentic engagement. Nourishing Connection: Trauma-Informed Feeding Therapy dives deeper, exploring the essential elements of connection, comfort, and curiosity to build mealtime literacy and meet each child's unique needs. Scroll down to explore both courses and discover how Erin’s guidance can help you make a positive impact at mealtime.

Nourishing Meaningful Mealtimes

This introductory course is designed for caregivers and clinicians seeking joyful, trauma-informed strategies to support neurodivergent children with feeding differences. In three hours of bite-sized lessons, you’ll explore the foundations of trauma-informed feeding therapy, learn playful approaches to make mealtime meaningful, and gain practical tips to reduce mealtime stress. The course includes an ebook for ongoing learning and access to live Q&A sessions after completion, offering a space to grow your support network and deepen your understanding. Click the button below for more details and begin your journey toward joyful mealtimes.

Cost: $195 USD

Nourishing Connection:
Trauma-Informed Feeding Therapy

This comprehensive course supports you in providing authentic, trauma-informed feeding therapy for neurodivergent and medically complex clients. Through over 15 hours of ASHA CEU credits, you’ll engage with a recorded module and live, weekly 1-hour sessions, plus dedicated office hours for additional questions if you’re unable to join live. You’ll gain access to a supportive group for ongoing discussion and receive a 50+ page ebook filled with valuable resources, including a goal bank. Explore the key principles of mealtime literacy—connection, comfort, and curiosity—designed to help children engage with food in a way that respects their individuality. Scroll down for a detailed topic breakdown and start building your confidence in a flexible, child-centered approach to feeding therapy.

Cost: $775 USD for second cohort

PFD Basics

What is a PFD

What does mealtime consist of

Course Content

What is mealtime literacy and its components

Therapeutic Use of Self and Intentional Relationship Model

Parent coaching

Who you are as a clinician

Core values

Counseling

Special Topic: Gestalt Language Processing and Feeding

GLP

Gestalt cognitive processing and how it impacts feeding

Food literacy

Environmental chaining

Medical Etiologies and Referrals

Dive into the medical etiologies we might see when working with pediatric feeding disorders and who we might refer to. Michelle Dawson, author of Chasing the Swallow, will deep dive into what you need to know

Play

What is play?

How can we use it in feeding?

The value of play

Assessment, Cue Reading and Intervention

Relationship-based therapy

Curiosity cues and understanding them

Assessment examples

Strength-based writing

Trauma Informed Care

What is trauma-informed care

How is it neurodiversity-affirming

Social determinants of health

Hierarchy of needs

Sensory and its Role in Feeding

Join Erin and OT Karen McWaters in an overview of sensory systems and how they can impact feeding. Interoception and its role will be discussed

Case Studies and Goal Writing

Videos and case studies will be presented

How to write trauma-informed goals

Caregivers will also be guest speakers on their experiences with feeding therapy

Muna Musse, Graduate student

"This course has been transformative in my educational journey as a graduate speech-language pathology student. Erin offers her knowledge and expertise to guide you in understanding feeding through various aspects of a child’s profile—sensory, praxis, medical history, caregiver engagement, prior mealtime experiences, and the impact of trauma. Erin’s unique ability to blend research, theory, and clinical practice into engaging presentations and discussions, created such a rich learning experience for me. Erin fosters a warm and collaborative environment that encourages problem-solving and so much collaboration! Her approach, grounded in the principles of connection, comfort, and curiosity, has transformed my understanding of feeding therapy. Erin guides you to understand feeding therapy holistically, along with the importance of connecting and collaborating with caregivers. I highly recommend this course to clinicians and SLP graduate students. Erin’s expertise offers valuable guidance on understanding a child’s individual profile and how this understanding is critical in feeding therapy. I will always be grateful for the knowledge I have gained with this course."

with Erin Forward, SLP