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Get Permission Institute

Training and supporting pediatric feeding professionals.

01/28/2026

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR FEBRUARY 11th & 12th!

Hybrid Get Permission Approach to Tube Feeding with Love
with with Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, M. Ed., FAOTA and Karen Dilfer, OTR/L

This isn't a typical "here are 10 techniques" course. This is a complete framework for understanding:

✅ The progression from tube-dependence to oral eating (with visual tools you can share with parents)

✅ How to assess trust, opportunity, and motivation—the three non-negotiables for tube weaning

✅ What to do when a child shows oral aversion, sensory defensiveness, or medical complexity

✅ How to support parents through the emotional journey of tube feeding

✅ When to push forward and when to pause—clinical decision-making for complex cases

✅ Strategies that work for children with autism, Down syndrome, neurological differences, and multiple diagnoses

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01/22/2026

Before we discuss what's on the plate, let's make sure the foundation is solid. ✨ Development first. Pressure never.

01/21/2026

Join us February 5th to listen to Laura Hellfeld's lived experiences with how Autistic people think, communicate, and experience food. You’ll learn how thought processes, communication, emotions, and the environment shape eating patterns across home, school, and clinical settings. Together, we will look beyond behaviors so you can better understand the ‘why’ behind food choices. You’ll gain practical foundations of care that help you build trust, reduce distress, and create support that truly fits the individual. We will centre Autistic community voices and share what Autistic people want healthcare providers, and the adults around them, to know.

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01/19/2026

💭 Responsive feeding starts with noticing the smallest signals. A yawn. A turned head. A reaching hand. Are we listening?

01/17/2026

Join us live January 22 from 12:00-1:30pm (CT) for a 1.5 hour course with Jennifer Berry, MS, OT/L and Heidi Liefer Moreland MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, CLC!

In this 1.5 hour webinar, participants will learn to:
-Explain how context—including environment, relationships, and culture—affects sensory processing in pediatric feeding.
-Identify how task elements and demands impact a child’s sensory processing during feeding.
-Describe how stress, safety, and prior learning shape a child’s sensory interpretation of feeding experiences.
-Recognize the conditions that support optimal sensory processing during feeding.
-Identify responsive, strengths-based strategies that align with a whole-child, evidence-informed approach to feeding.

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01/16/2026

This neuroaffirming, lived-experience webinar invites you to understand how Autistic people think, communicate, and experience food. You’ll learn how thought processes, communication, emotions, and the environment shape eating patterns across home, school, and clinical settings. Together, we will look beyond behaviours so you can better understand the ‘why’ behind food choices. You’ll gain practical foundations of care that help you build trust, reduce distress, and create support that truly fits the individual. We will centre Autistic community voices and share what Autistic people want healthcare providers, and the adults around them, to know.

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01/15/2026

The Get Permission Approach isn't just about overcoming challenges—it's about creating JOY around food. 🎊 Let's bring back the joy! What's one small win you can celebrate with your families today?

01/14/2026

WE LOVE A GOOD SALE!

Check out the reviews on 2 our of GPI Essentials Courses!
Now is the time to plan your 2026 professional development with us. Our courses never expire, so enroll today and watch at your own pace.

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01/13/2026

Join us tomorrow at 6:30pm (CT) for our live monthly mentoring session! Karen and Bre cannot wait to see you and talk all things Get Permission!

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See you all then!

01/12/2026

We are celebrating 2026 with a SALE!

20% off ALL courses including our GPI Essentials Courses.
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01/10/2026

Join us LIVE January 22nd 12:00-1:30PM (CT) for Sensory Considerations in Pediatric Feeding: A Whole-Child, Evidence Informed Approach.

This course offers clinicians a clearer, more comprehensive way to understand how children experience food, mealtimes, and feeding demands. Instead of focusing narrowly on a child’s outward sensory presentation, this course helps providers look beneath the surface to understand the body-based, relational, experiential, and task-specific factors that shape a child’s sensory processing and participation in feeding.

Through a responsive, strengths-based lens, participants will learn how context, co-regulation, stress, and environmental conditions influence sensory interpretation and readiness for engagement. The course provides practical frameworks and clinical reasoning tools to identify what a child needs for optimal sensory processing, and to support families with strategies that honor individual differences, build trust, and create the conditions for meaningful progress.

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01/09/2026

The Get Permission Approach believes there are many pieces to the puzzle of how we can bring Mealtime Peace to a family. It is relational to the core focusing on incorporating client and family. We also believe that multiple disciplines can help the child feel their best and safest in food exploration!

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