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Quick Pediatric Oral Motor Assessment

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This one-page quick pediatric oral motor assessment identifies or rule out structural and/or functional impairments that can contribute to issues with speech or feeding within the pediatric population.
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Identifying and Reducing Reflux in Infants and Toddlers

December 27, 2021 by Megan Berg.
GERD is a digestive disorder that can affect growth milestones, and adequacy of nutrition for children. This is a resource for parents, caregivers, and providers who need strategies for identifying and minimizing behaviors that may trigger GERD in infants and toddlers.
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Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout includes signs/symptoms included in an ARFID diagnosis as well as a list of populations most at risk. The handout references speech-language pathologists as part of an interdisciplinary team that can address this disorder.
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Guidelines and Goals for Pediatric G-Tubes

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
G-tubes can be scary, intimidating, and misunderstood by parents and caregivers. This resource offers basic guidelines and goals for SLPs to follow when beginning the g-tube journey with a client.
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Goal Ideas for Feeding Therapy

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This goal bank can be modified by adding more detail or customizing based on the child’s current skill level and needs.
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Food Textures/Consistencies with Examples (Pediatric Feeding Therapy)

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handy reference is helpful in understanding differences in food textures and consistencies when working with children on feeding therapy goals. The terms used for various textures can be used at mealtimes/during therapy to help children describe what they see, feel, and taste!
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Pediatric FEES vs. MBS

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This resource is a checklist that clinicians may use to help determine which swallow instrumentation is best suitable for their patients. Clinicians may also use this as a resource when inservicing other disciplines on swallow instrumentation, or when communicating with patients and families about assessment options.
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Development of the Swallow & Oral Motor Skills: From Infancy to Toddlerhood

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This resource provides caregivers and clinicians information about swallow development, including anatomy and physiology development from infancy to toddlerhood. The handout also outlines specifically how the pediatric swallow anatomy is not just a smaller version of adult anatomy and how these anatomical differences can impact dysphagia for the pediatric population.
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