Feeding and swallowing difficulties have a significant impact on children’s health, well-being, development, and educational potential. These disorders affect a child’s ability to engage in mealtimes, limiting socialization opportunities, nutritional intake, hydration, and growth patterns. This session discusses typical and atypical development of feeding patterns as well as how to differentiate between feeding and swallowing difficulties and how to identify any overlap in the two. The speaker also describes behavior management techniques to help address feeding challenges. Finally, the session explores how to determine appropriate goals and supports to optimize functional outcomes to benefit the preschooler and his/her family.

This course is a recorded session from the 2019/2020 online conference “Innovative Methods for Preschool Assessment, Collaboration, and Treatment.”

Learning Objectives:
You will be able to:

• discuss typical and atypical development of feeding patterns in the preschool population
• differentiate between feeding and swallowing disorders and discuss the possible overlap in presentation
• state three food-related properties that increase feeding challenges for preschool children and their caregivers
• identify and discuss three behavioral management techniques to enhance food acceptance in preschool children who demonstrate food selectivity

What is Included?

You'll get online access to all the course content, including the full video, handouts, and references so you can access it from anywhere!

Assessment Type

Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.

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