Advisory and Client-Focused

Level 5

Welcome and Introduction

📕 UNIT 1: Effects of nutrition on physical, emotional and intellectual development

POLL: Can mood affect a child’s thinking and learning?

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: What's your goal? 

Complete your Personal Strategy Questionnaire 

🎙️Off The Page Podcast

Module quiz

0. Devising your personal strategy

 Module 1 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: What’s your child’s cognitive efficiency?

POLL: Check in with your child’s current cognitive responsiveness

POLL: Take a guess! Do you believe that nutrient deficiencies may affect school grades?

📕 UNIT 2: Nurturing a child’s potential

📕 UNIT 3: Cognition and behaviour

Downloadable Client Materials and Session Handouts

Module feedback

Before you take your quiz

1. Nurturing a child's potential

Module 2 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Can everyday food choices affect school performance?

📕 UNIT 1: Can diet affect a child’s academic achievement?

POLL: What happens when children do not get enough water?

📕 UNIT 2: Dehydration at school and reduced brain function

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab™: How is your child’s water accessibility at school?

POLL: How easy is it for your child to access water at school?

2. Impact of diet on academic success

Module 3 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Can healthier diets support stronger cognitive development?

📕 UNIT 1: Can food affect a child’s intellectual capacity?

POLL: Is IQ the best predictor of future success?

📕 UNIT 2: Child IQ and life success

▶️ Watch and Learn: The “Traditional” Marshmallow Experiment

▶️ Watch and Learn: The “New” Marshmallow Experiment

3. Nurturing a child's intellectual capacity

Module 4 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How much of early nutrition goes straight to brain development?

📕 UNIT 1: Building a human brain

POLL: How fast does the developing brain really grow?

▶️ Watch and Learn: How neurons talk to each other

📕 UNIT 2: Understanding how the brain works

POLL: Which brain chemicals depend on nutrients from food?

▶️ Watch and Learn: The brain fitness program

4. Neuroscience 101: The child brain

Module 5 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Can intelligence change over time?

📕 UNIT 1: Influences on cognitive efficiency

📕 UNIT 2: Nutrients that impact a child’s IQ

POLL: Do supplements help when nutrition is already adequate?

📕 UNIT 3: Can Omega 3 improve a child’s IQ?

POLL: Which omega-3 matters most for the brain?

5. Nutritional influences on IQ and cognition

Module 6 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What helps or hinders concentration?

📕 UNIT 1: Nutrition for attention and concentration

▶️ Watch and Learn: What’s attention, and can we divide it among multiple tasks?

POLL: How sugary do you think common breakfast cereals really are?

📕 UNIT 2: Nutrition for memory and learning

POLL: How much do you know about the chemistry of memory?

6. Nutrition for attention and memory

Module 7 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: How is your child’s language processing?

POLL: Share your child’s language processing skills

▶️ Watch and Learn: The arcuate fasciculus highway in dyslexia

📕 UNIT 2: Reading, spelling and writing

POLL: Which nutrients may help with motor coordination?

Learning Activity: How good are you at the Stroop Test?

7. Nutrition for reading and writing

Module 8 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: How good of a “healthy” role model are you?

POLL: Share your Healthy Eating Modelling Assessment score

POLL: Share your Food Environment Assessment score

POLL: Share your Inspiring Good Habits Assessment score

8. BONUS: Parental Modelling Evaluations

Module 9 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Measuring body mass

📕 UNIT 2: How to use growth charts

📕 UNIT 3: Body composition analysis

9. Monitoring a child’s growth and body fat

Module 10 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: How many daily calories does a child need?

📕 UNIT 2: How to calculate daily caloric needs for boys and girls

10. Calculating a child’s caloric needs

Module 11 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Assessing a child’s caloric intake

📕 UNIT 2: Gaining or losing body weight?

11. Planning a child’s diet

Module 12 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Calculating a child’s daily carbohydrate requirement

📕 UNIT 2: Calculating carbs and free sugars in food

📕 UNIT 3: Fibre

12. Evaluating a child’s carbohydrate requirement

Module 13 Learnig Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Is your child getting enough protein?

POLL: Share your child’s protein sufficiency

📕 UNIT 2: Calculating a child's daily protein requirements

📕 UNIT 3: Protein in animal and vegetarian food sources

13. Evaluating a child’s protein requirement

Module 14 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Dietary fat needs in children

📕 UNIT 2: Fats to include and fats to avoid

📕 UNIT 3: Combining carbohydrate, protein and fat needs

14. Evaluating a child’s fat requirement

Module 15 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1. Skills Lab™: Is your child's blood sugar balanced?

POLL: Share your child’s blood sugar imbalance risk

📕 UNIT 2. Effects of blood sugar imbalance

▶️ Watch and Learn: Inside type 2 diabetes

📕 UNIT 3. Diabetes management

15. Uncovering blood sugar imbalances

Module 16 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1. Mastering blood sugar control with the GI index

📕 UNIT 2. Practical strategies for an effective Low GI eating

📕 UNIT 3. Weaning a child off sugar

16. Mastering blood sugar control and cravings

Module 17 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1. Skills Lab™: Is your child consuming sufficient Omegas?

POLL: Share your child’s omega intake

📕 UNIT 2. Fatty acid deficiency symptoms

📘 UNIT 3. Skills Lab™: Is your child consuming sufficient phospholipids?

POLL: Share your child’s phospholipid intake

📕 UNIT 4. Correcting fatty acid deficiencies

17. Detecting “smart fats” deficiencies

Module 18 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1. The dangers of childhood obesity

📕 UNIT 2. Unsuspected factors that lead to unhealthy fat gain

📕 UNIT 3. Healthy ways to fight excess body fat

📕 UNIT 4. Practical ways to achieve a healthier weight

📕 UNIT 5. Eating tactics to stay healthy and lean

18. Obesity, food addiction, and weight management

Module 19 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1. Nutrition for mood and behaviour

📕 UNIT 2. Amino acids that help with a child’s mood

📕 UNIT 3. Calming anger and aggression

19. Nutrition for mood, depression, and aggression

Module 20 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1. Skills Lab™: How hyperactive is your child?

POLL: Share your child’s current hyperactivity level

📕 UNIT 2. Hyperactivity and ADHD

📕 UNIT 3. Nutritional strategies for hyperactivity and ADHD

📕 UNIT 4. Problem foods and elimination diets

20. Nutrition to ease hyperactivity and ADHD

Module 21 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1. Autism symptoms and causes

📕 UNIT 2. Do gluten and dairy cause autism?

📕 UNIT 3. Toxic exposure and detoxification

📕 UNIT 4. Ketogenic dieting

21. Nutrition for autism, epilepsy, and Rett syndrome

Module 22 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1. What’s the science behind picky eating?

📘 UNIT 2. Skills Lab ™: How effective are your feeding strategies?

POLL: How effective are your current feeding strategies?

📕 UNIT 3. Science of successfully introducing new, healthier foods

22. BONUS: Resolving picky eating and food neophobia

Module 23 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: How to perform taste training

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: How neurons talk to each other

📕 UNIT 2. From picky eater… to eager eater

📘 UNIT 3. Skills Lab ™ : 4-Week Children’s Lunchboxes

23. BONUS: Taste training for children

Module 24 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1. Dos, dont’s, and must dos

📕 UNIT 2. Professional, legal, insurance and tax considerations

Before your take your Final Exam

Final Exam

24. Setting up your practice and Final Exam

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Accessing Your Certificate

25. Final Steps

<p>This 70-unit certification will help you learn about the effects of nutrition on physical, emotional and intellectual development in children. Not only does this give you a unique skill to add to your practice, you’ll also have the ability to aid a larger client base and expand your knowledge in useful and marketable ways. Children who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, and additional differences can require special nutritional insight. Having this certification gives you the tools you need to make an impact on families, schools, sports clubs, and the food industry as a whole! </p>

The science-based certification teaching you the effects of nutrition on physical, emotional and intellectual development in children

Advanced Child and Brain Development Nutritional Advisor

Maurice Castelijn

What you will learn

Understand the impact of nutrition on a child’s IQ, cognitive capacity, memory, concentration, reading, spelling, writing, academic potential, and learning issues such as dyslexia and dyspraxia

Perform child-health risk assessments, including brain function, reading and writing, hyperactivity symptoms, blood sugar imbalances, and fatty acid, phospholipid, and amino acid deficiency risks (whilst ensuring medical or psychological referral where appropriate)

Track a child’s growth, body mass, height, and body composition, and use scientific formulas to estimate their daily caloric needs, adjusted for boys and girls, age, metabolism, and activity level

Build a personalised nutritional programme considering a child’s gender, age, and individual calculations of protein, carbohydrate, and fat; assess, plan, and monitor food and fluid intake

Identify the risks of obesity and diabetes, which factors lead to unhealthy fat gain, the role of inherited genes, and apply strategies to achieve a healthier body weight

Gain advanced knowledge on the links between nutrition and a child’s brain, mood, behaviour, depression, aggression, ADHD, autism, and epilepsy, including dietary considerations

Evaluate parental influences on a child’s food choices, rate the effectiveness of their feeding behaviours, put forward methods for mitigating picky eating, and conduct taste training games

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