Description
Ages: Birth-18Grades: Birth-Adult
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 physiologynutritive vs. non-nutritive suckling, reflexes and what they mean, normal development of feeding and self-feeding skills, and more
- clinical evaluationdifferential diagnosis of feeding disorders, completing a case history, example evaluations, and more
- instrumentationadministration and analyses of FEES and MBS, radiation safety, monitoring of the infant's/child's response, and more
- treatmenttreatment of problems associated with abnormal tone, sensation, and motor learning; behavior-based dysphagia; children who are NPO; and more
- managing dysphagia in the school settingestablishing a dysphagia team, reimbursement, developing IEPs and individual health services plans, and more
- treatment of infantsfacilitating infant response, understanding distress signals and state of alertness, breastfeeding, and more
This book comes with an additional 51 printable pages of therapy tools:
- case history form
- evaluation forms individualized by these age groups:
- 0-4months
- 4 months-5 years
- 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
To see more of this product's contents:
177-page book with an additional 51 printable pages (evaluation tools and educational handouts). 2010
