- Medical Stability
- Facilitating Safe Swallowing
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Nutrition Management to Improve Oral Nutritional Intake/Nutrition and Hydration
- Estimating Energy and Protein Requirements
- Supporting Adequate Growth
- Supporting Oral Nutrition for Exclusively Breastfed Infants
- Supporting Oral Nutrition for Formula Fed Infants
- Supporting Oral Nutrition for Infants between 6 - 12 Months
- Supporting Oral Nutrition from 12 Months Onward
- Ensuring Adequate Fluid Intake
- Supporting a Healthy Eating Pattern
- When to Consider Enteral Nutrition
- Seating and Positioning
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Feeding Skill Development
- Facilitating First Tastes
- Facilitating Infant Feeding as a Neurodevelopmental Skill
- Facilitating Child Feeding as a Neurodevelopmental Skill and Relational Process
- Facilitating Oral Sensorimotor Function
- Considerations for Breastfeeding
- Considerations for Bottle Feeding
- Considerations for Solids
- Additional Resources
- Feeding Environments and Routines
- Sensory Processing/Regulation
- Oral Hygiene and Dental Health
Management: Oral Feeding
Consideration of the cyclical nature of pediatric feeding care continues in the planning and implementation of interventions to address issues identified through eating, feeding and swallowing assessment, diagnosis and goal setting. Management of pediatric feeding disorder (PFD) includes interventions or actions required to achieve the therapy goals. These goals and their respective outcomes are documented. This is depicted in the Pediatric Feeding Care Cycle (Figure 6).
This section of the guide includes management considerations related to:
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