Ages: Birth-18
Grades: 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 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

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

177-page book with an additional 51 printable pages (evaluation tools and educational handouts). ©2010