A review of feeding interventions for children with disabilities: Implications for institutionalised settings

Paula Rabaey - International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation

This literature review looks at the most current interventions on safe feeding practices for children with neuromotor disabilities who cannot feed themselves. The results will be used to create a tool to guide caregiver feeding practices in institutions. This tool could then assist professionals and caregivers working in institutions to identify and modify feeding practices that are potentially detrimental to a child’s health. In order to develop this observational tool that can be used internationally in a broad range of institutionalised settings, current evidence on interventions used to improve safe feeding and swallowing in these children needs to be reviewed.

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