165 printable resources for Feeding and Swallowing: patient and caregiver education handouts, therapy materials, clinical references and evaluation tools for speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists and physical therapists. Written and reviewed by practicing clinicians, ready to print, and included in a Therapy Insights membership.
PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Throughout the article, the authors share and discuss several facts about taste development during childhood, and how taste preferences ultimately determine food preferences. Salt and sweet tastes are the most desired during childhood, with bitter taste having the most variance among individuals and usually rejected by infants and children. The authors give the example of […]
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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Description of Search Methods: This systematic review was initiated through extensive online searches using a variety of electronic databases. The articles were required to have studied assessments of dysphagia symptoms, subjects under 18, been written in English, and have at least 2 or more subjects. After rigorous review of online search results, the authors chose […]
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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Description of Search Methods: An online search was conducted on Medline and Embase to retrieve articles discussing the psychometric characteristics of the 22 specific assessments reviewed by Heckathorn. The articles must have had to analyze one or more of the characteristics. Inclusion criteria were assessments had to have 50% or more items about swallowing/feeding, ages […]
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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Description of Search Method: The authors conducted an online search on PubMed on 3/1/17. The articles searched must have been RCTs or quasi-randomized trials, case- controlled trials, or treatment crossover trials, and published since 1990. Short-term outcomes included instrumental evaluation/imaging (e.g., MBS, FEES) and PO-related respiratory illness; long-term outcomes included duration of respiratory support, age, […]
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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Description of Method: The authors of this study established the following inclusion criteria in their comprehensive search on this topic: articles must have been published between 2000-2016 and in peer-reviewed journals, ages should be 3-adulthood, subjects must have official diagnosis of congenital/developmental disability, and subjects must have a secondary issue of dysphagia, drooling, or oral […]
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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Case History: This subject of this study was a 2-year old female with the diagnosis of Down syndrome. The author describes the child’s medical history with complications including premature birth, bronchiopulmonary dysplasia, and neutropenia. From birth, she was fed via IV, then OG feeds, then NG feeds, and finally a G-tube. It was reported that […]
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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Pacifiers and influence on suck patterning (2017)
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PediatricFeeding and Swallowing
Description of Method, Participants, and Conditions: The authors conducted an online search on PubMed’s database with “anterior open bite” and “open bite” as the primary search terms. Initially, the search found nine relevant articles, but reduced to four articles determined to fit the inclusion criteria: Cayley et al., 2000 – found that more studies should […]
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PediatricFeeding and Swallowing
Due to the prevalence of feeding difficulties seen in young infants, the authors of this study aim to identify and evaluate tools used to assess bottle- and breast-feeding abilities in 6-months-old or younger infants. An online database search was conducted, resulting in a total of 18 assessment tools that met the established inclusion criteria. Seven […]
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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Description of Search and Included Studies: The search included the following databases: Medline, CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycInfo, and HAPI. The articles were required to 1) have studied feeding assessments used to evaluate oral motor skills specifically, and 2) have detailed the assessments’ psychometric properties (e.g., reliability, validity, etc.) The following pediatric oral-motor assessment tools were reviewed: […]
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