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Credits: 4
This course aims to explore the principles of comprehensive clinical feeding and swallowing assessment through clinical observations, developmental checklists as well as up-to-date objective measures available to clinicians as identified through evidence-based practices. The course content is focused on an interdisciplinary approach across settings, including neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), inpatient acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, home care, educational/school settings, and outpatient clinics. Principles of instrumental/non-instrumental diagnostic techniques reviewed. This course also provides advanced information on assessing infants, toddlers, and preschool children referred for assessment due to developmental concerns. This course will review formal and informal assessment processes used across five developmental domains, including cognition, communication, social-emotional, adaptive, and physical (i.e., fine and gross motor, hearing, and vision), and how they interact with each other and impact children’s functioning. Students will learn about multiple evaluation tools and strategies used to assess a child’s skills that are culturally and linguistically appropriate. This course will review the NYS Competency Areas for EI Professionals.
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