Description
Description
Professionals and parents are always asking “How do I get this child to eat?”
This practical manual offers prescriptions for therapeutic intervention with children who are either totally tube fed or who eat selectively.
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An easy-to-follow, interdisciplinary programme for speech & language therapists, occupational therapists, dieticians and nutrionists, psychologists, social workers, parents and nurses working with children with aversion to oral feeding.
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Photocopiable assessment forms, sample letters and session plans, timetables, case notes and activity suggestions.
The book can be used selectively or in its entirety. There are two programmes within the Fun with Food Programme:
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“Fun before Food” covers pre-food issues: Sensory skills, oral facial awareness and food play and normalisation activities. The programme also includes parent and carer sessions, counselling advice and information on how to approach food aversion.
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“Fun with Food” is an eating and drinking and swallowing (EDS) programme aimed at providing multiple opportunities for carers and children to practise and develop new skills in a highly supportive environment.
The Fun with Food Programme has been used successfully in treating children with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, autism, Down Syndrome, sensory processing disorders and complex medical histories with no overt diagnosis.
Contributors: Arlene McCurtin, Damhnait Ni Mhurchu, Petro van deventer, Marie Kennedy, Ger McGuirk, Trish Morrison, Jeni Malone