Selective Eating Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in home routines, treatment sessions, interdisciplinary consultation, and health-related skill support. In Selective Eating Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, for this course, the practical stakes show up in safe, humane intervention that respects health variables and daily-life feasibility, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via RethinkBH
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Join Free →Selective eating is common among children with special needs and children with autism spectrum in particular. Keith will discuss possible reasons for selective eating. He will also discuss selective eating as a spectrum problem and why the failure to conceptualize selective eating in this manner can be problematic. He will also talk about the role of repeated exposure in the development of taste preferences and how a range of interventions can incorporate repeated exposure to increase diet variety.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Dr. Keith Williams has over 35 years of experience working with children with feeding problems. He has been the Director of the Feeding Program at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center for 25 years and is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Penn State College of Medicine. He has over 70 publications in peer reviewed journals, book chapters, and books. His latest book was Broccoli Book Camp with Laura Seiverling.Keith is a licensed psychologist and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. He is the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Association of Behavior Analysis (PennABA). He was a Fulbright Global Health Specialist to the National University of Ireland.
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