Updated and expanded evaluation tools and goals help organize your treatment. Whether you are new to the subject area or a veteran, you'll find information you need to practice effectively. Here's a sampling of the content:
anatomy and physiology-nutritive vs. non-nutritive suckling, reflexes and what they mean, normal development of feeding and self-feeding skills, and more
clinical evaluation-differential diagnosis of feeding disorders, completing a case history, example evaluations, and more
instrumentation-administration and analyses of FEES and MBS, radiation safety, monitoring of the infant's/child's response, and more
treatment-treatment of problems associated with abnormal tone, sensation, and motor learning; behavior-based dysphagia; children who are NPO; and more
managing dysphagia in the school setting-establishing a dysphagia team, reimbursement, developing IEPs and individual health services plans, and more
treatment of infants-facilitating infant response, understanding distress signals and state of alertness, breastfeeding, and more
The book comes with a FREE CD of an additional 51 printable pages (in PDF format) of therapy tools:
case history form
evaluation forms individualized by these age groups: 0-4months, 4 months-5 years, and 5-18 years
in-service guide on dysphagia in school-age children
educational handouts
observation forms
questionnaire for children with severe drooling
tips for developing good mealtime behaviors
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