Get Permission Institute

Get Permission Institute Training and supporting pediatric feeding professionals.

For the month of July only, ALL MASTER COURSES ARE $100 OFF!No coupon code required. Enroll today and watch at your own ...
07/23/2025

For the month of July only, ALL MASTER COURSES ARE $100 OFF!
No coupon code required. Enroll today and watch at your own pace because our courses never expire!

Looking for a course on infant and toddler feeding foundations?
Enroll in Learning Through Opportunity: Feeding in Infancy and Toddlerhood

Looking for a course that discuss selective eating including practical strategies for your treatment sessions?
Enroll in The Get Permission Approach to Anxious Eaters, Anxious Mealtimes

Looking for a course on how to responsively guide families utilizing feeding tubes? We have two live Hybrid Tube Feeding courses coming up!

Click here to visit our courses!
https://course.getpermissioninstitute.com/pages/courses

As feeding therapists, we feel the pressure sometimes to SHOW change can happen or to MEET that specific goal. BUT, the ...
07/22/2025

As feeding therapists, we feel the pressure sometimes to SHOW change can happen or to MEET that specific goal. BUT, the true power is in carryover! Remember, we only see these kids for 1, to maybe 2, hours a week. Think about all the feeding experiences they are having outside of therapy!

Parents are with their children 24/7. We can empower THEM with strategies that work within their daily routine, and that will create lasting change.

Have you listened to Chantelle's story? In our series, Voices of Lived Experience, Mom, Chantelle, shared how she and he...
07/18/2025

Have you listened to Chantelle's story?

In our series, Voices of Lived Experience, Mom, Chantelle, shared how she and her three year old got off balance with eating because of the worry she felt about her child’s growth. She learned how her worry and hovering complicated eating and was not making things better. She learned to give her daughter more autonomy and trust her to eat what she needed and make more choices during mealtime. She shared her personal experiences with the audience of things that she was able to change and how those changes dramatically influenced enjoyment for both her and her daughter.

As always, this series is FREE! Enroll today and learn with us!
Register here:
https://course.getpermissioninstitute.com/courses/voices-chantelle

Registration is still open! Join us TONIGHT for Homemade Blended Formula: Then and Now. We'll trace the remarkable journ...
07/17/2025

Registration is still open! Join us TONIGHT for Homemade Blended Formula: Then and Now.

We'll trace the remarkable journey of blended tube feeding—beginning with determined parents in the early 2000s who pioneered homemade blends, leading to today's expanded options including commercial food-based formulas. Today, parents and clinicians have more options to nourish tube fed children (and adults) well. Our goal is to share this history while increasing your confidence in using real food approaches for tube-fed individuals.

Register here:
https://course.getpermissioninstitute.com/courses/homemade-blended-formula

07/16/2025

This is a great strategy for all feeding therapists working with toddlers!

Is your toddler a problem solver? Or one of those rare toddlers that says yes to everything?

This is really about toddlers who feel pressure and have a little bit of increased or more accurately described as worry about trying new foods.

We do not use strategies like this to get toddlers to eat, because that is not our job.

But toddlers love to help, and this might be a way to invite them to join us as we get dinner ready, cook, serve food to others, or clean up.

This gives your child a chance to be around lots of different foods, including their favorites, and discover they like food or maybe aren’t interested yet. Both are just fine!

Never forget, tube feedings are mealtimes too! Mealtimes are about connection. You can help families feel connected to t...
07/16/2025

Never forget, tube feedings are mealtimes too! Mealtimes are about connection. You can help families feel connected to their child, even if they are using a tube for nourishment.

Curious to know specific strategies? Take our Master Course: The Get Permission Approach to Tube Feeding with Love! This month only, the course is $100 off.

The course is structured for online self paced learning, with 2 live nights of interaction with Marsha and Karen!

Check out more on this course here:
https://course.getpermissioninstitute.com/courses/hybrid-get-permission-approach-to-tube-feeding-with-love-aug-2025

Join Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, M. Ed., FAOTA and Betsy Hjelmgren, MS, RDN, CSP, LDN for an ALL NEW LIVE course, Homemade...
07/15/2025

Join Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, M. Ed., FAOTA and Betsy Hjelmgren, MS, RDN, CSP, LDN for an ALL NEW LIVE course, Homemade Blended Formula: Then and Now.

We'll trace the remarkable journey of blended tube feeding—beginning with determined parents in the early 2000s who pioneered homemade blends, leading to today's expanded options including commercial food-based formulas. Today, parents and clinicians have more options to nourish tube fed children (and adults) well. Our goal is to share this history while increasing your confidence in using real food approaches for tube-fed individuals.

Register here:
https://course.getpermissioninstitute.com/courses/homemade-blended-formula

Safety is KEY to building trust. As a feeding therapist, instead of trying to change the child can we reframe our thinki...
07/12/2025

Safety is KEY to building trust.

As a feeding therapist, instead of trying to change the child can we reframe our thinking?

Lets:
-Work within their comfort zone (movement from the table)
-Use their strengths (their strong caregiver bond)
-Build on tiny success
-Respect their sensory needs

Progress looks different for every child!

Join us for Homemade Blended Formula: Then and Nowwith Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, M. Ed., FAOTA and Betsy Hjelmgren, MS, ...
07/11/2025

Join us for Homemade Blended Formula: Then and Now
with Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, M. Ed., FAOTA and Betsy Hjelmgren, MS, RDN, CSP, LDN!

LIVE July 17th 6:00-8:00PM

In this course we'll trace the remarkable journey of blended tube feeding—beginning with determined parents in the early 2000s who pioneered homemade blends, leading to today's expanded options including commercial food-based formulas. Today, parents and clinicians have more options to nourish tube fed children (and adults) well. Our goal is to share this history while increasing your confidence in using real food approaches for tube-fed individuals.

Register here:
https://course.getpermissioninstitute.com/courses/homemade-blended-formula

Join us LIVE for our Hybrid The Get Permission Approach to Tube Feeding with Love! This course offers 11 hours of indepe...
07/10/2025

Join us LIVE for our Hybrid The Get Permission Approach to Tube Feeding with Love!

This course offers 11 hours of independent online learning, paired with 6 hours of live teaching. The live component will be Aug 19th & 20th, 6:00-9:00pm CT.

Get Permission is a trust-based approach to pediatric feeding intervention. In this hybrid version of this course Marsha and Karen will provide a comprehensive overview of feeding tubes using the Get Permission framework. Content will include an introduction to the mechanics of feeding tubes, why a child may receive a feeding tube, and how feeding tubes can be used to support a child’s growth. There will be a special emphasis on helping course participants learn how feeding tubes can be used to support the relationship between parents and their children. Participants will learn how feeding tubes can be used to promote emotional well-being of parents and support a child’s mealtime participation. A significant portion of the course will be devoted to helping participants develop clinical reasoning skills to identify when a child may be ready to transition off of a feeding tube and begin oral eating.

Enroll today to complete the online learning prior to the Live Q&A!

Register here:
https://course.getpermissioninstitute.com/courses/hybrid-get-permission-approach-to-tube-feeding-with-love-aug-2025

Creating safe spaces for children during mealtimes starts with removing judgment and pressure. How can we do this as fee...
07/09/2025

Creating safe spaces for children during mealtimes starts with removing judgment and pressure. How can we do this as feeding therapists? You can model how to remove the pressure! Some ideas include:
-Modeling "try it?" strategies, with no requirement of the child to participate
-Offering the child their safe food, with no novel foods during the initial few sessions
-Modeling distant change FIRST to build safety (changes to your plate, your cup, the presentation of you food, while theirs remain the same)
and work up from there!

We always want the child to feel safe, connected, and SEEN.

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07/08/2025

Wise words from our co-found Stephanie Cohen!

What if we stopped saying this??

Here’s the thing:

When you try to prevent picky eating, when it’s in your vocabulary, you fear something. It causes anxiety maybe for some. It might cause you to push yoru child in order to prevent this “thing” from happening to you. You might even begin label your child. THEN, it might be how you think about your child, and may become even more of a negative self-fulfilling prophecy.

i’m not saying everybody who uses the term is trying to scare parents – the therapists and educators who use these terms to share information are absolutely trying to help. But talking about a potential problem is also a really good way to help parents feel like they need a solution.

YOU WANT your child to pick. To choose. To figure out what they LOVE and what they aren’t ready for, or don’t want IN THIS MOMENT.

Kids change and learn and grow and explore over time. We WANT them to be able to pick for themselves.

(Ok I’m going to hide now from all of the feeding therapists who are going to be mad at me)

Comment “mealtimes” and I’ll DM a few of my best tips to make eating positive, fun and low stress.

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