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Courtney Palm - Sleep Week is Coming

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4 Grils on benchRecognizing Autism In Girls

with Hillary Crow, MA, CCC-SLP 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
12:00pm-2:00pm (PST) | Virtual Event

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Traditional models of autism identification often overlook or misinterpret the ways autism presents in girls and children from underrepresented racial, cultural, and linguistic communities—leading to missed opportunities for early support. In this interactive session, early intervention professionals will gain tools to recognize autism through a neuroaffirming and culturally responsive lens.

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family EatingFeeding Foundations for all Early Intervention Professionals: Supporting the Family Mealtime

with Allie Glazer, M.S. CCC-SLP/L & Angela Hughes, M.S., CCC-SLP/L

Tuesday, October 14, 2025
12:00pm-1:30pm (PST) | Virtual Event

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Grab your favorite snack for this session! Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD) affects more than 1 in 37 American children under the age of 5, making it as or more prevalent than well-known conditions such as Autism and cerebral palsy. As early interventionists, you are often the first line of defense in supporting holistic development and caregiver-child relationships, and may field burning questions about mealtimes like “how much should my child be eating/drinking?”. Because 70-89% of children with developmental delays experience feeding difficulties, you’ve likely experienced PFD, even if you didn’t have a name for it. 

This session will share information through a compassionate and relationship-focused lens. We’ll focus on introductory information on Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD), including how feeding is one of the most complex things a body can do and how all body systems work together (or don’t!) to support the feeding experience.

This talk is geared towards all professionals on an Early Intervention team, not just feeding therapists. In this session, you’ll start to develop a detective lens to care for your families when they ask you for mealtime support. And we’re not kidding about grabbing the snack- we’ll use it in this talk!

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