Pre Feeding Skills Second Edition

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Pre-Feeding Skills, Second Edition, By: Suzanne Evans Morris, PhD, CCC-SLP and Marsha Dunn Klein, MEd, OTR/L

The revised and expanded edition of this comprehensive resource focuses on the entire mealtime experience and feeding relationship for clients from birth to adolescence. It includes the fundamental information about normal development in feeding as well as limiting factors that influence feeding. Assessment and treatment principles are thoroughly explored. All sections have been updated to include new art, current research, references, and trends -- especially the chapters on treatment, tube feeding, nutrition, blindness, prematurity, and anatomy. There are 12 new chapters, including a chapter on mealtime resources. Also provides mealtime participation exercises and Spanish translations of parent questionnaires.

450 pages, softcover.

Pre-Feeding Skills new chapters include:
- Mealtime Foundations
- Mealtime Influences
- Mealtime Roles
- Supportive Diagnostic Testing
- Assessment and Treatment Principles
- Specifics of Oral Motor Treatment
- Gastrointestinal Influences on Feeding
- Sensory Influences on Feeding
- Autism
- Children who do not eat enough to grow
- Nutritional Influences on Feeding
- Self Feeding Children who experience mealtime challenges due to prematurity, visual impairments, autism