The Neurobiology of Choking

Explore swallowing & airway protection across the first year of life.

A virtual course to advance learning in infant swallowing, choking, and airway protection.

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Course Features

Videos to deepen your understanding of infant swallow mechanism

1.25 contact hrs provided upon completion of course & post test

References and course cheat sheet

About this course

This course will deepen your knowledge of how babies swallow without choking and how the swallowing mechanism changes over the first few years of life. Includes review of anatomy, reflexes, cranial nerves, and physiology.

Led by award-winning pediatric feeding & swallowing specialists, this course covers a range of topics from reflexes and cranial nerves to the complex interplay of oral motor skills, and environmental factors that influence choking risk.
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Course Content

Video includes

Introduction

When a Swallow Goes Wrong

Airway Protection

Anatomy of the Swallow

Phases of Swallowing

Reducing Choking Risk

Neurobiology of the Swallow

When to Refer

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Course instructors

Meet our Instructors

Led by award-winning pediatric feeding & swallowing specialists, this course covers a range of topics from reflexes and cranial nerves to the complex interplay of oral motor skills, and environmental factors that influence choking risk.
Kary Rappaport
Senior Feeding + Swallowing Specialist (OTR/L, MS, SCFES, IBCLC)
A mom of two, Kary specializes in family mealtime dynamics and eating issues across the spectrum, from breast and bottle feeding challenges and picky eating, to dysphagia, tube feeding, and complex food refusal. Kary has extensive, wide-ranging work experience from outpatient therapy, to pediatric acute care in a high acuity NICU, to in-home settings and Well Child visits, all supporting families and children with eating and swallowing. Kary has worked with thousands of infants and children as they learn to eat, and she has taught parents and medical professionals on this topic for nearly two decades.

Jenna Bernstein
MS, CCC-SLP, CLC
Jenna is a pediatric feeding and swallowing expert with experience at some of the largest children's hospitals in the United States. Since 2015, she has specialized in working with infants and children with complex cardiac anatomy and aerodigestive needs. Jenna loves to mentor fellow professionals and assist families in reaching their feeding goals.

Course Lessons

Course reviews

"This is such important information that isn't talked about enough--reviewing not only the physiology of choking but what we can do to really keep kids safe that had nothing to do with food was incredibly helpful"
Jen
"I will use some of the examples to educate parents in how a swallow works and how unlikely a choking incident is, while still bringing awareness to the need for vigilance during feeding."
Brenda
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