 Dr. Hazelbaker has been a therapist for nearly 27 years. She specializes in cross-disciplinary treatment and to that end has taken training in several modalities to best assist her clients. She is a certified Craniosacral Therapist, a Lymph Drainage Therapy practitioner, and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant.
Her original research on tongue-tie, done in 1993, has changed clinical practice both in the USA and abroad. (www.tongue-tie.org) She authored the Assessment Tool for Lingual Frenulum Function (ATLFF) during her Master’s Degree program. The ATLFF remains the only research-based tongue-tie screening process in infants under 6 months. People recognize her as an expert on infant sucking issues and the treatment of same. As an innovator, she invented the Hazelbaker™ FingerFeeder to address these sucking problems.
She recently revised her Master’s thesis on tongue-tie into a comprehensive book on the condition: Tongue-tie: Morphogenesis, Impact, Assessment and Treatment for Hale Publishing. (www.iBreastfeeding.com.) Her doctoral dissertation “Toward a Unified Theory of Healing: a Grounded Theory Study” was nominated for the Marvin B. Sussman Award for Academic Excellence. She is currently revising it into a book. She co-authored Coming Back from the Border: Adult Children Reclaim their Authentic Selves from The Borderline Personality Disorder Dynamic with Dr. Laura Hausman.
Course Objectives:
1. The learner will be able to define tongue-tie.
2. The learner will be able to discuss proper assessment of tongue-tie.
3. The learner will be able to describe the various treatment approaches.
4. The learner will be able to describe the political issues currently surrounding tongue-tie assessment and treatment.
Course Details (Please note that this program is scheduled for 3 hours and has been approved for 3 Lactation specific CERPs)
Start Time: 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, 12pm Mountain, 11am Pacific
180 min (3hrs) Program
3 L Cerps awarded for participating
(Certificates will be emailed to participants)
Prices:
USLCA Members $40.00, Non-members $55.00, Group 2-10 $70.00 per group, groups of 10 or more $95.00 per group.
Registration Deadline is April 27th 2010 at 12:00 noon Eastern time.
Click here to sign up today to attend “Assessment and Treatment of Tongue-tie”
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