Upcoming Events and Webinars

WORKSHOP: An Introduction to BITES®: A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy

  • Speakers:  Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
  • Date:  Monday, November 15th through Monday, November 22nd, 2021
  • Location:  ONLINE: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention Virtual Library Presentation (1 hour duration)
  • Register for ASHA convention here

Previous Events

WEBINAR: BITES®:  A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy | PART 1: Overview of BITES® model

  • Speakers:  Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
  • Date:  Friday, September 17th, 2021  Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST
  • Location: ONLINE — Behavior Development Solutions
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WEBINAR: BITES®:  A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy | PART 2: In-depth Case Studies

  • Speakers:  Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
  • Date:  Friday, September, 24th, 2021  Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST
  • Location: ONLINE — Behavior Development Solutions
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  •  WORKSHOP: BITES®:  A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy
    • Speakers:  Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
    • Date:  Friday, May 28th, 2021  Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
    • Location:  47th Annual ABAI Convention (virtual)
    • Register for workshop here

Workshop Description: Pediatric feeding problems are complex and often require a multi-disciplinary approach to assessment and treatment. The Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech approach, known as BITES, focuses on how speech-language pathologists (SLPS) and Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) can work together to assess feeding problems and develop interventions for them. With over 30 years of combined experience in the field of pediatric feeding disorders, Laura Seiverling, Psychologist and BCBA-D, and Elise Jusko, CCC-SLP, will draw from their own experiences working on a multidisciplinary feeding team together and will provide an overview of how cross-discipline collaboration can look when it comes to both assessment and treatment of food selectivity, chewing, packing, rapid eating, tongue thrusts, dysphagia, food overstuffing, choking phobias, and self-feeding difficulties. Case examples will be provided for each of the feeding problems discussed. In addition, the presenters will review the various factors that may lead to a feeding problem and will provide an overview of typical feeding development. Content has peer reviewed, published support beyond those publications and other types of communications devoted primarily to the promotion of the approach.

Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to describe typical feeding development 2. Participants will be able to identify the role of various disciplines involved in multidisciplinary feeding evaluations. 3. Participants will be able to identify common medical and environmental factors that may lead to a feeding problem. 4. Participants will learn the role of both SLPs and BCBAs in the BITES approach to assessment and intervention of pediatric feeding disorders. 5. Participants will learn how to collect baseline data and determine a starting point for feeding interventions. They will also learn how to collect data on various mealtime behaviors, graph child mealtime behavior, and how to write task-analyzed feeding protocols. 6. Participants will learn how to use behavioral skills training to train caregivers to implement feeding interventions.

WEBINAR: BITES®:  A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy | PART 1: Overview of BITES® model

  • Speakers:  Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
  • Date:  Friday, January 22nd, 2021  Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST
  • Location: ONLINE — Behavior Development Solutions
  • Register for webinar

WEBINAR: BITES®:  A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy | PART 2: In-depth Case Studies

  • Speakers:  Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
  • Date:  Friday, January, 29th, 2021  Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST
  • Location: ONLINE — Behavior Development Solutions
  • Register for webinar

WEBINAR: BITES®:  An Introduction to BITES®: A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy

  • Speakers: Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
  • Date: Friday, December 4th, 2020 Time: 10:30-11:20 AM EST
  • Location: ONLINE — Long Island Behavior Analysis Conference
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WEBINAR: An Introduction to BITES®: A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy

  • Speakers: Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
  • Date: Friday, October 23rd, 2020 Time: 3:45-4:45 PM EST
  • Location: ONLINE — Arizona Association for Behavior Analysis
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WEBINAR: BITES®:  A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy | PART 1: Overview of BITES® model

  • Speakers:  Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
  • Date:  Thursday, July 30th, 2020  Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST
  • Location: ONLINE — Behavior Development Solutions
  • Register for webinar

WEBINAR: BITES®:  A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy | PART 2: In-depth Case Studies

  • Speakers:  Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
  • Date:  Thursday, August 6th, 2020  Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST
  • Location: ONLINE — Behavior Development Solutions
  • Register for webinar

WEBINAR: BITES®:  A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy | PART 1: Overview of BITES® model

  • Speakers:  Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
  • Date:  Friday, January 24th, 2020  Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST
  • Location: ONLINE — Behavior Development Solutions
  • Register for webinar

WEBINAR: BITES®:  A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy | PART 2: In-depth Case Studies

  • Speakers:  Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
  • Date:  Friday, February 7th, 2020  Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST
  • Location: ONLINE — Behavior Development Solutions
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WEBINAR: BITES®:  A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy | PART 3: Ask the Experts!

  • Speakers:  Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
  • Date:  Wednesday, February 26th, 2020  Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
  • Location: ONLINE — Behavior Development Solutions
  • Register for webinar

WEBINAR: BITES®:  A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy | PART 1: Overview of BITES® model

  • Speakers:  Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
  • Date:  Friday, October 25th, 2019  Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST
  • Location: ONLINE — Behavior Development Solutions
  • Register for webinar

WEBINAR: BITES®:  A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy | PART 2: In-depth Case Studies

  • Speakers:  Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
  • Date:  Friday, November 1st, 2019  Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST
  • Location: ONLINE — Behavior Development Solutions
  • Register for webinar

WEBINAR: BITES®:  A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy | PART 1: Overview of BITES® model

WEBINAR: BITES®:  A Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech Approach to Feeding Therapy | PART 2: In-depth Case Studies

  • WEBINAR:  BITES®: A Behavioral InTEgrated With Speech Approach To Feeding Therapy
    • Speakers:  Dr. Laura Seiverling, PhD, BCBA-D and Elise Jusko, MS, CCC-SLP
    • Date:  Friday, February 8th, 2019   Time:  10:00 AM-1:00 PM eastern
    • Location:  ONLINE – The Applied Behavior Analysis Center
    • Register for webinar here:  https://www.abacnj.com/product/bites-behavioral/

Workshop Description: Pediatric feeding problems are complex and often require a multi-disciplinary approach to assessment and treatment. The Behavioral InTEgrated with Speech approach, known as BITES, focuses on how speech-language pathologists (SLPS) and Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) can work together to assess feeding problems and develop interventions for them. With over 30 years of combined experience in the field of pediatric feeding disorders, Laura Seiverling, Psychologist and BCBA-D, and Elise Jusko, CCC-SLP, will draw from their own experiences working on a multidisciplinary feeding team together and will provide an overview of how cross-discipline collaboration can look when it comes to both assessment and treatment of food selectivity, chewing, packing, rapid eating, tongue thrusts, dysphagia, food overstuffing, choking phobias, and self-feeding difficulties. Case examples will be provided for each of the feeding problems discussed. In addition, the presenters will review the various factors that may lead to a feeding problem and will provide an overview of typical feeding development. Content has peer reviewed, published support beyond those publications and other types of communications devoted primarily to the promotion of the approach.

Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to describe typical feeding development 2. Participants will be able to identify the role of various disciplines involved in multidisciplinary feeding evaluations. 3. Participants will be able to identify common medical and environmental factors that may lead to a feeding problem. 4. Participants will learn the role of both SLPs and BCBAs in the BITES approach to assessment and intervention of pediatric feeding disorders. 5. Participants will learn how to collect baseline data and determine a starting point for feeding interventions. They will also learn how to collect data on various mealtime behaviors, graph child mealtime behavior, and how to write task-analyzed feeding protocols. 6. Participants will learn how to use behavioral skills training to train caregivers to implement feeding interventions.

This course is appropriate for the following clinicians working with children with feeding disorders: Psychologist, BCBA, SLP, OT, COTA, RD, RN and CSW.