Young children's feeding issues can be a complex challenge for early childhood professionals, especially since most get little to no training addressing this key developmental area. Now there's a single comprehensive resource that provides early childhood educators and interventionists with specific, practical, research-based guidance on resolving a wide range of feeding issues.
Ideal for a wide range of professionals working with young children birth–5 years across school, home, and child care settings, this book-and-CD set gives readers in-depth background information, how-to strategies, and helpful tools for addressing feeding challenges. Integrating the dual perspectives of the authors—a child development expert and an early childhood special education expert—the book helps readers
With almost 50 pages of printable tools, forms, and handouts, the included CD-ROM gives professionals practical help with every step of improving children's feeding issues. Professionals will get daily feeding logs, recordkeeping forms, quick-guides to feeding milestones and red flags, and tip sheets on critical issues such as breastfeeding, feeding team requirements, and positioning strategies and specialized feeding equipment.
A vital resource for every member of a child's feeding team, this much-needed guidebook will help readers resolve one of the most critical issues in early childhood development—and ensure better overall outcomes for young children.
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About the Authors Foreword Laurie A. Dinnebeil Preface Acknowledgements
I. Foundations
Introduction 1. Feeding Development 2. Feeding in Context 3. Feeding Interactions 4. Diversity: Culture and At-Risk Groups
1. Feeding Development
2. Feeding in Context
3. Feeding Interactions
4. Diversity: Culture and At-Risk Groups
II. Feeding Process
Introduction 5. Teaming 6. Feeding-Related Screening and Assessment 7. Planning and Monitoring Progress
5. Teaming
6. Feeding-Related Screening and Assessment
7. Planning and Monitoring Progress
III. Strategies and Specialized Interventions
Introduction 8. General Strategies 9. Young Children at Risk for Feeding Difficulties 10. Young Children with Sensory-Based Feeding Issues 11. Young Children with Oral Motor Difficulties 12. Young Children with Neurological Disorders 13. Young Children with Anatomical Anomalies 14. Young Children Who Require Tube Feeding
8. General Strategies
9. Young Children at Risk for Feeding Difficulties
10. Young Children with Sensory-Based Feeding Issues
11. Young Children with Oral Motor Difficulties
12. Young Children with Neurological Disorders
13. Young Children with Anatomical Anomalies
14. Young Children Who Require Tube Feeding
IV. Recommendations and Conclusions
Introduction 15. Feeding Outcomes and Future Directions
15. Feeding Outcomes and Future Directions
References Index