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SUMMARY:When Picky Eating Is More Than Picky: Mealtimes with Autistic and Sensory Kids in Head Start
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DESCRIPTION:When Picky Eating Is More Than Picky: Mealtimes with Autistic and Sensory Kids in Head Start\n\n09/04/26 10:00 AM CST\n - 09/04/26 11:15 AM CST\Description:\nDay after day, Head Start educators and health managers encounter children who dread lunchtime - not out of stubbornness, but because eating is genuinely hard for them. The word "picky" flattens complex feeding challenges into a single frustrating label that tells us what we see, not why it is happening. Participants will:\n\n	Unpack the six underlying drivers of avoidant eating - from sensory processing and autism-related rigidity to oral motor difficulties and adult-led pressure responses - and understand why a single observation is rarely enough to identify the cause.\n	Explore how to distinguish typical developmental food selectivity from presentations that warrant a referral, and how to escalate feeding concerns to a health manager or specialist.\n	Walk away with at least three classroom-level strategies that reduce mealtime distress for sensory-sensitive and neurodivergent children, plus concrete language shifts educators can use starting Monday morning.\n\n\n\n\n
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:When Picky Eating Is More Than Picky: Mealtimes with Autistic and Sensory Kids in Head Start<br /><br />09/04/26 10:00 AM CST - 09/04/26 11:15 AM CST<br />Description:<br />Day after day, Head Start educators and health managers encounter children who dread lunchtime - not out of stubbornness, but because eating is genuinely hard for them. The word &quot;picky&quot; flattens complex feeding challenges into a single frustrating label that tells us what we see, not why it is happening. Participants will:
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	<li>Unpack the six underlying drivers of avoidant eating - from sensory processing and autism-related rigidity to oral motor difficulties and adult-led pressure responses - and understand why a single observation is rarely enough to identify the cause.</li>
	<li>Explore how to distinguish typical developmental food selectivity from presentations that warrant a referral, and how to escalate feeding concerns to a health manager or specialist.</li>
	<li>Walk away with at least three classroom-level strategies that reduce mealtime distress for sensory-sensitive and neurodivergent children, plus concrete language shifts educators can use starting Monday morning.</li>
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