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.


Additional speakers & topics will be added shortly

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

Infant Development and Breastfeeding: The Body-Brain Connection Lecture Pack

Breastfeeding shapes infant development in profound ways that go far beyond just being a source of nutrition. Explore the latest research around the powerful relationship that exists between the breastfeeding dyad. It weaves together neurodevelopment, sensory integration, physiology, attachment, and infant mental health to illuminate the whole-body, whole-brain impact of breastfeeding.

• Body-Led Breastfeeding: A Physiokinetics Perspective on the Infant Body While Feeding
  Adina Kopinsky, IBCLC
• Synchrony in Action: Breastfeeding, Co-Regulation & Parent-Infant Attachment
  Anna Le Grange, BSc, RN, IBCLC
• Feeding with Feeling: The Hidden Power of Proprioception
  Jacklynn Knotts OTR/L, IBCLC, CNT, NTMTC
• From Feeding to Function: The Role of Breastfeeding in Oral Development
  Leslie R. Kowalski, PhD, IBCLC
• How Motor Patterns, Sensory Processing, and Newborn Reflexes Impact Breastfeeding
  Stephanie Wong MOT, OTR/L, CNT, IBCLC, NTMTC
• Breastfeeding, Skin-to-Skin, and Neurodevelopment: Unlocking the Blueprint for Brighter Beginnings
  Tanya Singleton, BSN, MA, MPH, RN-BC, IBCLC, LCCE

More add-on information coming soon!

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

Clinical Pumping Care: From Flanges to Feeding Decisions Lecture Pack

More add-on information coming soon!