Symposium Add-on Lecture Packs

Expand your symposium experience with any of these focused educational series! In addition to the main symposium, we are offering the option to extend your symposium experience with 5 highly informative add-on lecture packages.

Navigating Challenges in the Care of Tongue-Tied Babies Lecture Pack

Tongue-tie comes with many varied questions and issues beyond just challenges with breastfeeding. This special focus package was designed to take a bigger picture look at some of the various clinical challenges that can arise when working with tongue-tied infants. Expand your knowledge of how to provide care in different settings and situations.

• Therapeutic Considerations and Care Plans for Tethered Oral Tissues and Frenotomy During the NICU Stay
  Jacklynn Adele Knotts, OTR/L, CNT, IBCLC
• Exploring the Impact of Ankyloglossia On Swallowing and Complementary Feeding
  Lillian Scott M.S., CCC-SLP, IBCLC
• The Clinical and Diagnostic Challenges of Tongue-Tie
  Luis Ruiz-Guzman, Paediatrician. MSc Mother and child Health, Senology
  
• Game Changers in a Tongue Tie Clinical Protocol
  Patricia Díaz Lorenzo, MD, Pediatrician, IBCLC, Doula
• Evaluating For Tongue Tie Virtually or When Scope is Limited
  Renee Beebe M.Ed., IBCLC
• Research Review: Evaluating Current Evidence on Tongue-Tie in Breastfeeding Infants
  Wilaiporn Rojjanasrirat, PhD, RN, IBCLC, FILCA, FAAN

Form & Function in Focus: Advancing Your Tongue-Tie Practice Lecture Pack

If you're looking to advance your knowledge, this special focus package created from some of our most popular previous talks, takes you beyond the fundamentals. It provides a deeper dive into anatomy and physiology, differential diagnosis and identification of compensations, and clinical care strategies. Expand your skills and elevate your clinical practice with experienced clinicians in the field!

• Ankyloglossia Differential Diagnosis: Tongue-Tie, Retrognathia or Hypotonia?
  Camila Palma DDS, MSc (Master in Pediatric Dentistry) & IBCLC
• Beneath the Surface: Anatomy and Physiology and How These Influence the Approach to Frenectomy
  Justin Roche MB ChB, FRCPCH, FRCPI, IBCLC
• Feeding is Movement: Activities for Supporting Optimal Infant Oral Function
  Melissa Cole MS, IBCLC
• Compensatory vs Novel Movements: 3 Keys for Babies With Tongue, Lip and Buccal Restrictions
  Michelle Emanuel OTR/L, CIMI, CST, NBCR, RYT 200
• The Impact of Tongue-Tie on Swallowing and the Implications for Breastfeeding and Starting Solids
  Sharon Smart PhD, BSc, PGCert Higher Education Innovative Learning, CPSP, FHEA
• Wondering about "The Wanderer?" The Vagus and Ankyloglossia
  Dr. Sharon Vallone DC, FICCP

Tongue-Tie 101: Fundamentals of Assessment and Breastfeeding Management Lecture Pack

If you're new to tongue-tie, want to brush-up on your knowledge of fundamental skills or just can't get enough of our amazing speakers, then this package is for you! This lecture pack provides tongue-tie essential skills from assessment through to how to help if a family chooses not to go the route of frenotomy.

• Impact of Tethered Oral Tissues on the Fascial System
  Ankita Shah, MDS
• Critical Assessment of Apparent Tongue-Tie
  Catherine Watson Genna, BS, IBCLC
• Tongue-Tied and Troubled: A Breastfeeding Journey at Risk
  Christine Staricka, BS, IBCLC, RLC, CE
• Untangling the Big Picture of Tongue-Tie Assessment
  Leslie R. Kowalski, PhD, IBCLC
• Breastfeeding With A Tongue Tie. How Can We Help When A Tie Revision Is Not Possible?
  Meg Nagle, IBCLC
• Frenectomy: The Importance of Anticipatory Guidance and Post Procedure Support
  Dr. Rajeev Agarwal, MD

Breastfeeding Biomechanics: Functional Approaches to Oral Coordination Lecture Pack

Explore foundations of infant feeding through a nervous system and functional lens. Deepen your clinical knowledge of the role of the autonomic nervous system in oral aversion, learn critical details you may be missing in your oral assessments and expand your understanding of suck-swallow-breathe coordination.

• The Hidden Mechanics of Infant Feeding: Understanding Suck-Swallow-Breathe Coordination
  Dr. Christine Lam Kan OTD, IBCLC, SWC (Advanced Practice in Feeding Eating and Swallowing)
• Beyond Sensory Defensiveness: A Nervous System Approach to Managing Oral Aversion in Infants
  Effath Yasmin MA, HDSE, CLEC, IBCLC, BCST, BFRP
• Critical Details You Might Be Missing in Your Oral Assessments
  Johanna Sargeant BA, BEd, IBCLC