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Ask A Therapist: Nutritive Feeding for Charge Syndrome

I have a 4 year old student with CHARGE SYNDROME. He has minimal intake and could be looking at a feeding tube if this declines any more. Mom is totally fighting with him (holding one hand with her mouth, the other with her non-feeding hand and then spoon feeding with the other!). Feedings take at […]

August 14, 2012 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ASK A THERAPIST, CHARGE SYNDROME, FEEDING TUBE, FOOD INTAKE, LORI, LORI OVERLAND, NUTRITIVE FEEDING, ORAL MOTOR EXERCISES, ORAL MOTOR SKILLS, SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD, SPECIAL NEEDS PARENT, SPOON FEEDING, TUBE FEEDING

Ask A Therapist: Complicated Premie with Feeding Issues

I am treating a beautiful, 4 month old baby born at 29 weeks gestation. Meyer was immediately intubated and sent to NICU where he experienced bouts of apnea. Meyer was given feeds on 2/3 for 5 days with good suck and intake, but subsequently required surgery for Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC – a gastrointestinal disease, that […]

July 16, 2012 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ASK A THERAPIST, BRADYCARDIA, BRADYS, BREAST MILK, BREASTFEEDING, FEEDING, FEEDING TUBE, GERD, HABERMAN FEEDERLARYNGOMALACIA, LORI OVERLAND, NEC, NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS, NICU, OPMS, ORAL MOTOR EXERCISES, ORAL MOTOR SKILLSORAL PHARYNGEAL MOTILITY STUDY, ORAL-MOTOR, PREMIE, THICKENED BREAST MILK

Ask A Therapist: Feeding Evaluation Questions

We are just beginning our feeding clinic at a Medical Center for outpatient pediatrics. I have done one feeding evaluation since taking your class Feeding Therapy: A Sensory-Motor Approach, but now have a child on my caseload with an EXTENSIVE medical history, whom I am to evaluate. He has Tubuler/Tuberous sclerosis (tumors growing in his brain […]

July 2, 2012 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ASK A THERAPIST, AUTISM, BRADYCARDIA, FEEDING THERAPY, FEEDING TUBE, G-TUBE, GERD, LORI OVERLAND, MBS, MICKEY TUBEORAL STIMULATION, PEG TUBE, SENSORY INPUT, SENSORY MAP, TOOTHETTE, TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS, TUBULER, VIBRATOR & TOOTHETTE