Webinar #2 Food Selectivity. When is food selectivity a real problem?

Food selectivity can be both a medical and behavioral issue, related to sensory, motor, and perceptual systems. Neurophysiology highlights the influence of neurosensoriality and the microbiome on feeding and behavioral regulation. It is important to distinguish between taste sensitivity and food preferences, as selectivity can affect orofacial, swallowing, and masticatory functions. A multidisciplinary approach is essential, with speech therapists, therapists, and other specialists collaborating in observation and intervention, paying attention to sensorimotor aspects before addressing food training.

Plan

• Definition: Medical or behavioral problem?

• Broad-spectrum nutrition: relationship with sensory, motor, and perceptual systems

• Neurophysiology of perception: neurosensoriality in feeding disorders

• Microbiome and microbiota in nutrition: the relationship with the stress axis and behavioral modulation

• Integration and processing of sensory food experience: cognitive-behavioral and sensorimotor principles of feeding

• When is food selectivity a real problem? Taste sensitivity VS taste preferences

• Food selectivity: impact on orofacial structures, swallowing and masticatory dynamics

• What is essential to work on BEFORE the selectivity training

• The specificity of praxic enabling speech therapy intervention: comparison with Oral Motor Therapy.

  
  

The event will be held via the ZOOM platform.

Registration fee

• €70.00 including VAT

To complete your registration, you must pay the fee by credit card or by bank transfer to: BA Services SRLS IBAN IT36A0303203210010000902855 and send a receipt of payment to segreteria@baservices.it . In the same email, you will need to enter all your billing information, if not entered during registration. If you need an Electronic Invoice, you will need to indicate your PEC address or Unique Code. In the Reason for Payment, you will need to enter "Webinar Gen/Feb 2025 n. 1" and your name, if the transfer is made from a current account in someone else's name.

WEBINAR CYCLE DISCOUNT

• All 3 webinars ( N.1 Communication , N.2 Food Selectivity and N.3 Food Selectivity ) discounted to 190.00 including VAT instead of 210.00 including VAT. To participate in all three webinars, you must register for each event using the form and pay the total fee by inserting the wording (Webinar Jan/Feb 2025 N. 1, 2, 3) in the reason for payment.

• All 2 webinars Food Selectivity ( No. 2 Food Selectivity and No. 3 Food Selectivity ) discounted to 126.00 including VAT instead of 140.00 including VAT. To participate in these two webinars, you must register for each event using the form and pay the total fee required by inserting the wording (Webinar Jan/Feb 2025 No. 2, 3) in the reason for payment.

Target audience: Behavior analysts, Behavior analyst assistants, Neuropsychiatrists, Psychologists, Educators, Neuropsychomotor therapists, Speech therapists.

SPEAKER

DR. CECILIA SAIONI, SPEECH THERAPIST AND BEHAVIOUR ANALYST

Dr. Saioni is a speech therapist, master's degree in Applied Cognitive Neuroscience; she obtained a first level master's degree in Applied Behavior Analysis in 2018. She specializes in the treatment of food selectivity and autism spectrum disorders; she has specific training in Oral Motor Therapy and the PROMPT method, the initiation and development of vocal skills in autism. Dr. Saioni offers consultations at MeaVia Clinic in Rome and at the "Entelechìa" Studio in Palestrina (RM).