Babies’ Bodies and Brains: Multi-System Assessment and Treatment of the Premature/Medically Complex
Presenter(s)
Holly Schifsky, OTR/L, CNT, NTMTC, CBIS
Live Webinar for Pediatric Therapists. Complete both days for 15 Contact Hours (1.5 CEUs)
July 18 and 29, 2025
8:40 am EST • 7:40 am CST • 6:40 am MST • 5:40 am PST (US)
Presenter: Holly Schifsky, OTR/L
This intermediate-advanced course will provide a systems-based approach to assess the premature/medically complex infant in the NICU/PICU setting. This course will focus on understanding the co-morbidities associated with prematurity and medically-complex infants and increase critical reasoning skills for the clinician to create treatment plans to advance motor and feeding skills for the infant. It will build on information provided during the “Baby Beats and Breaths” course but can be a stand-alone course for advanced clinicians working with medically complex infants.
This course will provide the clinician with hands-on treatment techniques for positioning/handling infants in the Small Baby unit (infants under 32 weeks gestation), oral motor interventions to support pre-feeding/feeding development, edema management including lymphatic facilitation, post-surgical considerations for infants, trunk facilitation to support cough development, extremity facilitation to support ribcage development, pelvic floor activation for stooling, abdominal facilitation for infants with GI complications, scar assessment/treatment, and feeding techniques for infants with multi-system co-morbidities.