Feeding Challenges in Young Children: Strategies and Specialized Interventions for Success

Specific, practical, research-based guidance on resolving diverse feeding issues in children birth-5: that's what readers will get in this comprehensive, accessible resource which includes 50 pages of helpful tools and forms on CD-ROM.

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:
* understand the entire process of feeding development and how feeding affects early childhood development
* gain familiarity with variations in feeding contexts, including diverse cultural and at-risk groups and their impact on feeding choices and attitudes
* support children with specific feeding issues (see sidebar) with specialised, evidence-based interventions and strategies
* learn the basics of screening and assessment procedures and widely used instruments
* develop appropriate, individualised feeding plans that align with children's IEPs and IFSPs
* strengthen collaboration between parents, caregivers, and professionals on a child's feeding team
* monitor feeding progress through anecdotal records, observations, and data-based approaches

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, record keeping 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 specialised feeding equipment.

A vital resource for every member of a child's feeding team, this much-needed guidebook helps readers resolve one of the most critical issues in early childhood development-and ensure better overall outcomes for young children.

Helps young children with risk factors for feeding difficulties, sensory-based feeding issues, oral motor difficulties, neurological disorders, anatomical differences, and tube feeding requirements