Pre-Feeding Skills, Second Edition

Pre-Feeding Skills, 2nd Ed., by Suzanne Evans Morris, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, and Marsha Dunn Klein, M.Ed., OTR/L, is a revised and expanded edition of this comprehensive resource, which focuses on the entire mealtime experience and feeding relationship for clients from birth to adolescence. It includes fundamental information about normal development in feeding as well as limiting factors that influence feeding. Assessment and treatment principles are thoroughly explored. Chapters include information on mealtime roles and influences, supportive diagnostic testing, gastrointestinal influences on feeding, autism, sensory influences on feeding, children who do not eat enough to grow, foundations for mealtime, and oral motor skills limitations. Also provides mealtime participation exercises and Spanish translations of parent questionnaires.

450 pages, softcover