e-learning courses for feeding and swallowing issues
Our speech pathology team have created free online courses for speech pathologists and clinicians who work with children that have feeding difficulties.
The courses help clinicians improve their skills in treating feeding and swallowing issues and include information on:
- typical feeding development in infants and children
- clinical assessments and management
- intervention strategies.
Course knowledge levels
We have courses for novice, foundation and intermediate knowledge levels.
Novice level
- Feeding development
- Respiratory issues in infants and children
- Assessment, referral and case management information
- Posture and positioning for oral feeding
- Oral health care
- Feeding equipment
Foundation level
- Oral motor development
- Feeding difficulties and oral medications
- Allergies
- Assessment of swallowing sounds (cervical auscultation)
- Swallowing studies (videofluoroscopy)
- Mealtime routines
- Behaviour modification therapy
Intermediate level
- Oral and pharyngeal musculature and cranial nerves
- Cognitive development
- Health issues that may affect oral feeding
- Telehealth
- Clinical investigations
- Working with infants with cleft palate
- Assessment of tongue tie
How to enrol
You can enrol in the e-learning courses using iLearn on the Queensland Health website.
- Login or register for an account
- Search for paediatric feeding learning framework
- Choose your course level
- Select Enrol
- Launch the course
Contact us
Contact our speech pathology team if you have questions about the courses.