SOS – Approach to Feeding – 2025

SOS approach to feeding Conference in Denmark - October 20th – 23rd 2025

4,75 day Conference.
Prior to the In-Person Segment of the conference, participants must complete approximately 8 hours of pre-recorded content. This Online Segment is to be completed at your convenience, no later than October 12th 2025

When Children Won´t Eat: Picky Eaters Versus Problem Feeders: Assessment and Treatment Using the SOS Approach to Feeding.

This SOS Approach to Feeding course has been developed for professionals working with children and young people who are experiencing feeding difficulties. The course includes theory as well as practical exercises concerning examination and treatment for SOS Approach to Feeding.

Course Description: The SOS Approach to Feeding (Sequential Oral Sensory) is an interdisciplinary method used to evaluate and treat feeding and growth issues occurring at ages 0-18 years. The age range of children targeted at this course: primarily 1-6 years. The SOS Approach to Feeding integrates aspects of posture, sensory, motor, behavior/learning, medical and nutritional factors to comprehensively evaluate and supervise children with feeding/growth difficulties.

The course will include Power Point presentations, video clips of examination and treatment, case presentations and practical exercises where the participants themselves will try different kinds of food.

Intended Audience: Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Registered Dietitians, Special Education Teachers, Psychologists, Physical Therapists, Early Intervention Specialists, Nurses, Physicians, and Mental Health Workers. Note: Training conferences are created for professionals. If parents wish to attend the training workshop, they must be accompanied by their child’s feeding therapist.

Course Level : The SOS Approach to Feeding conference is an Intermediate level course: Information is geared to practitioners with a general working knowledge of current practice trends and literature related to the subject matter. Focus is on increasing understanding and competent application of the subject matter.

Content Disclosure : The course content is focused on the SOS Approach to Feeding and there will be limited, or no information provided about similar products or services.

Agenda for the 4,75 day conference

PART 1 = PRE-RECORDED ONLINE SEGMENT

PART 2 = IN-PERSON SEGMENT - DAY 1. October 20th 2025

PART 2 = IN-PERSON SEGMENT - DAY 2. October 21st 2025

PART 2 = IN-PERSON SEGMENT - DAY 3. October 22nd 2025

PART 2 = IN-PERSON SEGMENT - DAY 4. October 23rd 2025

AGENDA IN PDF

AGENDA, SOS - Approach to Feeding. Denmark 20th - 23rd october 2025

REGISTRATION

Dates: October 20th – 23rd October 2025

Address: Scandic Sydhavnen

              Sydhavns Pl. 12

              2450 Copenhagen

              Denmark

Registration deadline: 15th September 2025

Price – Early Bird – SOS Approach to Feeding conference (available until February 28th 2025): DKK: 13.000,00 excl. VAT / DKK: 16.250,00 incl. VAT

Price: DKK: 14.300,00 excl. VAT / DKK: 17.875,00 incl. VAT

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INFORMATION

PART 1 = PRE-RECORDED ONLINE SEGMENT

Date: Deadline October 12th 2025

Address: Online

PART 2 = IN-PERSON SEGMENT

Date: October 20th – 23rd October 2025

Address: Copenhagen, Denmark

Transport: There is easy access by plane / train / car.

External course: This course is an external course – so Accommodation is not included in the price. This allows participants to choose their place of residence.

Language: American English – the presenters are easy to understand. As there will be no interpretation into Danish.

Attendance Requirement: To ensure Learners successfully achieve the Learning Outcomes above and to satisfy the completion requirements for the SOS Approach to Feeding conference, all attendees are expected to attend the conference for the entire duration of each day (day 1., day 2., day 3. from 8:30am to 5:30pm, day 4 from 8:30am to 4:30pm)

Questions: We will be happy to help you with any questions, please send us an email: kontakt@bornespecilaisterne.dk

Speakers

Kay A. Toomey, PhD

– Pediatric Psychologist, President of Toomey & Associates, Inc.; Adjunct Research Fellow of Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions

Dr. Kay Toomey is a Pediatric Psychologist who has worked with children who don’t eat for over 35 years.  She has developed the SOS Approach to Feeding as a family centered program for assessing and treating children with feeding problems.  Dr. Toomey speaks nationally and internationally about her approach.  Dr. Toomey helped to form The Children’s Hospital – Denver’s Pediatric Oral Feeding Clinic, as well as the Rose Medical Center’s Pediatric Feeding Center.  Dr. Toomey co-chaired the Pediatric Therapy Services Department at Rose Medical Center prior to entering private practice.  Dr. Toomey acted as the Clinical Director for Toomey & Associates, Inc.’s Feeding Clinic, and then the SOS Feeding Solutions @ STAR before shifting into clinical consultation in order to focus on her teaching. Dr. Toomey is currently the President of Toomey & Associates, Inc. and an Adjunct Research Fellow at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions.

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL AND NON-FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS:
  • President, Toomey & Associates, Inc. and the Developer of the SOS Approach to Feeding program (paid)
  • Adjunct Research Fellow of Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions (paid)
  • Co-Author, “Behaviorally Based Feeding Problems” in Suiter & Gosa (Eds.) Assessing and Treating Dysphagia: A Lifespan Perspective (2019). New York: Thieme Publishers (unpaid)
  • Founding Medical Professional Council Member with Feeding Matters – PFD Alliance Committee Member and Conference Committee Member (unpaid)

Erin Sundseth Ross, PhD, CCC-SLP

– Neonatal and Pediatric Speech Pathologist

Erin Sundseth Ross, PhD, CCC-SLP received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 2007, followed by a 2-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Section of Nutrition at the University of Colorado Denver. Her master’s degree is in Speech and Language Pathology, from California State University Stanislaus, which she received in 1988. Dr. Ross is currently an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado and is on faculty at the Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. She has authored several book chapters and publications related to feeding preterm infants and infants with medical comorbidities. Dr. Ross provides clinical consultation to several Newborn Intensive Care Units (NICU) within the HealthONE system in Denver, in addition to providing professional education and research consultation through Feeding FUNdamentals, LLC. She created SOFFI®, a training program for caregivers in the NICU and therapists and other professionals working with babies who are having problems breast or bottle feeding at home. She brings 30+ years of experience working with premature infants and infants with medical problems.

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL AND NON-FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS:
  • President and CEO of Feeding FUNdamentals, LLC (paid)
  • Faculty at the Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions (paid)
  • Developmental Specialist for HealthONE Hospital Systems (paid)
  • Consultant for Nestec/Gerber Baby Foods (paid)
  • Gerber Child Advocate/Developmental Panel member (paid)
  • Consultant for Intertek (paid)
  • Speaker for Toomey & Associates, Inc. & Feeding FUNdamentals, LLC (paid)
  • Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (unpaid)
  • Co-Author, “Behaviorally Based Feeding Problems” in Suiter & Gosa (Eds.) Assessing and Treating Dysphagia: A Lifespan Perspective (2019). New York: Thieme Publishers (unpaid)
  • PFD Alliance Leadership with Feeding Matters – PFD Alliance Advocacy Chair (unpaid)
  • Consensus Committee of the Standards, Competencies, and Best Practices for Infant and Family-Centered Developmental Care in the Intensive Care Unit (unpaid)

Conference Tests and Evaluation Form Requirements : All Participants are required to take a multiple-choice test with at least an 80% accuracy at the end of each day of the conference to verify their understanding of the Conference materials. Upon full completion of the SOS Approach to Feeding Conference, participants must also complete a course evaluation form in order to receive their certificate of attendance.

Conference Learning Objectives

  1. List the seven areas of human function that need to be examined to provide a comprehensive Feeding Assessment.
  2. Identify at least five of the oral, sensory, motor, cognitive or emotional developmental milestones key to being able to eat well.
  3. List three reasons why children won’t eat, as based on learning theory principles.
  4. Differentiate classical and operant conditioning principles as applied to resolving feeding problems.
  5. Identify at least four of the necessary components of an SOS Approach to Feeding program for babies, toddlers, and young children in either an individual or group therapy session.
  6. List all three requirements for building a Food Hierarchy.
  7. Identify at least one play based strategy for progressing a child up each of the 6 major Steps on the Steps to Eating Hierarchy.

Advanced online education (minor courses and mentorship) After attending this main course, it is possible to access the advanced online courses for more specialized knowledge. You can find the current advanced courses and the mentorship here: https://sosapproachtofeeding.com/sos-educational-programs/. You can only access the advanced courses after completing the main course!

Who will benefit from attending? The course is intended for all professionals, working with children having severe sensitivity, sensory motor problems, physical eating disorders and / or food phobia (not bulimia, anorexia, orthorexia etc.) e.g.: Occupational therapists, Physio therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Pedagogues, Preschool teachers, Special Education Teachers, Registered Dietitians, Dietary Consultants, Psychologists, Early Intervention Specialists, Pediatric healthcare nurses, Nurses, Physicians, Mental Health Workers, Dental hygienists.
Note: The conferences are created for professionals. If parents wish to attend the training workshop, they must be accompanied by their child’s feeding therapist.

After having completed the SOS Approach to feeding course conference the participants will be able to:

  • Identify the developmental steps important for eating, within the sensory, motor, oral, cognitive and emotional areas.
  • Assess which sensory, motor, oral and behavioral components can have an affect on the child’s eating and participation in mealtimes.
  • Apply SOS training course for eating for children in group sessions or individually.
  • Receive a Certificate of Attendance which is eligible for submission to Professional Organization for Continuing Education Hours earned during course. (Education credit is unfortunately not available at this conference).
  • Be entitled to join the SOS Referral List as an SOS Provider.

Terms and Conditions

PART 1 - ONLINE PRE-RECORDED SEGMENT - Deadline October 12th 2025

PART 1 – ONLINE PRE-RECORDED SEGMENT – Deadline October 12th 2025

All participants must have participated in and completed PART 1 – ONLINE PRE-RECORDED SEGMENT deadline October 12th 2025.

If the participant has not completed PART 1 – ONLINE PRE-RECORDED SEGMENT by October 12th 2025, the participant will be excluded from participating in the conference October 20th – 23rd 2025.

If the participant is excluded from participating in the conference October 20th – 23rd 2025, the ticket to the conference will be lost. The participant cannot be transferred to another conference without charge.
The participant will lose his ticket and will bear the financial consequences this may have.

Attendance & Policies

Attendance & Policies

In order to achieve the intended Learning Outcomes and to satisfy the completion requirements for the SOS Approach to Feeding conference, all attendees are expected to attend the conference for the entire duration of each day (day 1., day 2., day 3. from 8:30am to 5:30pm, day 4 from 8:30am to 4:30pm)

Attendees will miss crucial information needed to be able to correctly use the SOS Approach to Feeding program if they come late or leave the conference early. Late arrival or early departure on any day will not be accepted. Certificates of Attendance will not be given to Attendees that are late or leave early. Please make any travel arrangements to ensure that you do not need to leave the conference early on any day. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Therapy Assistants and Students in Training – Additional Attendance Requirements and Actions

Therapy Assistants and Students in Training – Additional Attendance Requirements and Actions

All Students and Therapy Assistants must follow individual licensing/training standards for their Country and their professional degrees supervision standards. When there is a requirement for students and/or assistants to practice only under professional supervision, the SOS Approach to Feeding program requires those students and assistants to have a Supervisor who themselves have attended a SOS Training Conference.

  • If your Supervisor has previously attended the SOS Approach to Feeding and you are registering to attend an SOS Training Conference as a Therapy Assistant or Student, please have your supervisor send an email stating that they will provide supervision to you as required by your Country’s standards while practicing the SOS Approach to Feeding program, along with a copy of their SOS Certificate of Attendance.
  • If your supervisor is planning to attend an SOS Conference with you, please have your supervisor send an email stating that they will be attending the SOS conference with you and will provide supervision to you while practicing the SOS Approach to Feeding.

Complaint Policy & Procedures

Complaint Policy & Procedures

Each participant will receive an evaluation form after attending the conference. We appreciate receiving all feedback, so that we can improve future conferences.

We will be available throughout the conference and will do our best to change or improve conditions as necessary.

Toomey & Associates, Inc. views complaints as an opportunity to learn and improve future programs and resources, as well as a chance to put things right for the person or organization that has made the complaint. Please read the full Complaint Policy and Resolution Procedures.

Cancellation Policy

1. Cancellation of purchase

1.1. In accordance with the Danish consumer law (Forbrugeraftaleloven) certain agreements are exempt from rules about cancellation of purchase. This includes catering and service providers of recreational activities including entertainment, sports and similar cultural activities and events when you beforehand have been informed about the date of the event.

1.2. Since the event is included in this exemption and since you are already informed about the time of the event, you are not able to cancel your registration once completed unless the Organizer has given you the opportunity for cancellation.

2. Change of participant

2.1. Registrations may be substituted for another attendee from the same organization. Substitutions must be submitted in writing to kontakt@bornespecilaisterne.dk by October 3th for the substitution to be honored.

3. General terms and conditions

1.1 For a more detailed description of registration conditions, please read the “Terms of Registration” when you register.