Feeding Therapy Program
For Infants with Poor Suck and Children with Motor Impairment.
Bahavioral Techniques
Behavioral interventions are based on principles of behavioral modification and typically focus on increasing appropriate actions or behaviors, including increasing compliance, and reducing maladaptive behaviors.
Behavioral interventions include such techniques as shaping, prompting, modeling, stimulus fading, antecedent manipulation, alternate behavior, and differential reinforcement, as well as implementation of basic mealtime principles (e.g., scheduled mealtimes in a neutral atmosphere with no food rewards).
What's Oral Massage Techniques and Who can benifit ?
Feeding Therapy Techniques
Food Refusal - Is it Oral Motor or Sensory Related ?
Different types of Oral Massage and Why use Oral Massage ?
How to teach Biting and Chewing Skills ?
Gum Massage " Oral Massage Techniques"
Referent : ARK therapeutic
How to teach Develop a Rotary Chewing Pattern ?
Biofeedback Techniques
Biofeedback includes instrumental assessments that provide visual feedback to aid in the treatment of feeding or swallowing disorders. Children with sufficient cognitive skills can be taught to interpret the visual information provided by these assessments (e.g., surface electromyography, ultrasound, nasendoscopy) and make physiological changes during the swallowing process.
EVIDENCE HIGHLIGHT
EXPERT OPINION
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See the of the pediatric dysphagia evidence map for pertinent scientific evidence, expert opinion, and client/caregiver perspective.
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Some instrumental procedures (e.g., surface [electromyography (EMG)], ultrasound, videoendoscopy) can be used to provide biofeedback to patients undergoing swallowing therapy