Oral feeding difficulties are common in children with cerebral palsy (CP). The effect of oral-motor dysfunction on feeding problems has been proved in several studies. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of oral sensorimotor stimulations on feeding performance in children with spastic cerebral palsy. A total of 12 children with spastic cerebral palsy underwent 24 session...

Children with conduct disorders (persistent disrup­ tive, deceptive and aggressive behaviours) are highly likely to require clinical intervention. Such inter­ ventions offer an important opportunity to prevent a burden of poor health and social maladjustment in adulthood. Conduct problems cause children, families and schools considerable distress, and they result in social and educational impai...

Over the past decade, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) have increased their involvement in the assessment and management of infants and children with complex feeding and swallowing problems. Given the complex problems demonstrated by these infants and children that vary across a range of conditions and degrees of severity, SLPs need to increase their knowledge in all the topics covered in th...

OBJECTIVE Postnatal depression may interfere with breast feeding. This study tested the ability of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) to predict later breast feeding problems, hypothesising that risk of unsuccessful breast feeding increased with increasing EPDS scores, even at low values. DESIGN The authors administered the EPDS on days 2-3 after delivery to 592 mothers of a heal...

J Jo ou ur rn na al l C Cl lu ub b D De et ta ai il ls s Date of submission Feb 2010 What is the role of allied health in the treatment of infants with feeding disorders which are related to maternal anxiety/mental health? Review Question/PICO/PACO P Infants aged 0-18 months with feeding disorder/problems related to maternal anxiety/mental health I Multidisciplinary allied health therapy C no i...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic review of the research evaluating the effect of psychological interventions for pediatric feeding problems. METHODS A search was conducted to identify studies using psychological interventions for pediatric feeding problems published between 1998 and 2013. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and nonrandomized studies that examined aggregated outcome data were...

background: tube feeding is used for patients, who are not able to eat orally but their digestive system can digest food. this method is safe and economical for patients, maintains the functions of the digestive system and reduces the risk of infection and sepsis. however, incorrect administration of this method of feeding results in problems such as aspiration pneumonia, infection, diarrhea, n...