The Source for Pediatric Dysphagia–Second Edition Nancy B. Swigert

Description Ages: Birth-18Grades: Birth-Adult Updated and expanded evaluation tools and goals help organize your treatment. Whether you are new to the subject area or a veteran, you'll find information you need to practice effectively. Here's a sampling of the content: anatomy and physiology–nutritive vs. non-nutritive suckling, reflexes and what they mean, normal development of feeding and self-feeding skills, and more clinical evaluation–differential diagnosis of feeding disorders, completing a case history, example evaluations, and more instrumentation–administration and analyses of FEES and MBS, radiation safety, monitoring of the infant's/child's response, and more treatment–treatment of problems associated with abnormal tone, sensation, and motor learning; behavior-based dysphagia; children who are NPO; and more managing dysphagia in the school setting–establishing a dysphagia team, reimbursement, developing IEPs and individual health services plans, and more treatment of