Resources
for Feeding Children
Our Special
Needs Book Recommendations
Feeding
Resources
Our Special
Needs Book Recommendations
Mailing Lists and Support Groups
for Feeding Issues
Recommended parent discussion lists about feeding difficulties in
young children.
Tube Fed Kids
Support group on Ning for babies and children who are tube fed.
Small
Wonders ~ A Preemie Place
Laura Williams' website has important feeding tips and stories for parents
of children born premature. Be sure to read: Weight & Feeding: A Preemie
Parent’s Struggle, Feeding Tips for Preemies, and Treatment for Behavioral
Aspects of Feeding Disorders. Includes the excellent Feeding
Forum.
Life on the Reflux Roller Coaster: Gastro
Esophageal Reflux Disease In Infants And Children by Roni Maclean and
Jean McNeil
Parents who children have severe reflux will relate to this book.
Oley Foundation
A wonderful support and source of information for caregivers or those
living on artificial nutrition, aka enteral or tube feeding or
TPN, total parenteral nutrition, and IV nutrition. Through conferences,
database, and its website, this organization offers information, support,
and understanding to parents of children requiring such therapies, as
well as to adults living with HPEN.
InfantReflux.org
Information on reflux defination, diagnosis, and some treatment options.
Also includes an active message board.
Sensory Integration and
Feeding
Sensory integration issues can complicate feeding.
New Visions
Articles by Suzanne Evans Morris, Ph.D., an speech pathologist specializing
in feeding therapy. List
of articles.
Magic Foundation
for Children's Growth
Support for growth hormone therapy. Online brochures on a number of disorders
related to growth, including premature puberty, intrauterine growth retardation,
etc.
Dysphagia Resource
Center
Resources for swallowing and swallowing disorders. Includes the excellent
Dysphagia Mail List Archive
http://www.b9.com/cgi-bin/wilma/dysphagia/
NICDC
- Dysphagia Factsheet
Overview of dysphagia - defination, causes, and research.
Marcus
Institute, Emory University
Information on feeding disorder programs for young children, and several
articles.
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