Oral feeding challenges (eating by mouth) can be extremely stressful for many caregivers. With these resources, support from your healthcare team and practice, your child’s health and nutrition can improve and you can enjoy a positive feeding relationship with your child.
Normal Swallowing in Children
This video depicts normal swallowing in children. If you have questions or concerns about your child’s swallow, please contact your healthcare provider.
Oral Feeding Your Preterm Newborn or Infant with Challenges: Steps to Safe and Enjoyable Feeding
Chewing: What You Need to Know to Get Started
Parental consent to share videos of the children pictured in this presentation was obtained. Special thanks to the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Pediatric Feeding/Swallowing Team for creating this video.
Tips for Success - Getting Through Mealtime Struggles Video Series
This is a pre-recorded video series for parents and caregivers of children 6 months to early school years. It offers information, strategies and resources about mealtime struggles. You can watch the videos at any time at your own speed. You can also stop and return at any time.
We suggest watching the Introduction and Connections videos first.
- Poster - Tips for Success Getting Through Mealtime Struggles
- Playlist
The video series was developed by a multidisciplinary team from Alberta Health Services.
Note for Healthcare Providers: AHS Forms and Handouts can be printed directly or ordered in bulk
PEAS Website
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PEAS Business Cards
- PEAS Website for Eating, Feeding, & Swallowing Service Sites:
- Small Brochure (5.5 x 8.5") | Brochure (8.5 x 11") | Poster (11 x 17")
- Small Brochure (5.5 x 8.5") | Brochure (8.5 x 11") | Poster (11 x 17")
- PEAS Website for Community services:
- Small Brochure (5.5 x 8.5") | Brochure (8.5 x 11") | Poster (11 x 17")
Tips for Success - Getting Through Mealtime Struggles Video Series
This is a pre-recorded video series for parents and caregivers of children 6 months to early school years. It offers information, strategies and resources about mealtime struggles.
- Video Series Playlist
- Poster - Tips for Success Getting Through Mealtime Struggles
- Mealtime Struggles In School Aged Children - Building Trust and Confidence
This is an online workshop for parents and caregivers of children ages 6 - 12 years. It offers information, strategies, and resources to support positive mealtimes to build children's trust, comfort, and confidence with food.
Register here: https://redcap.link/wciygxt8)
Swallowing Difficulties (Dysphagia)
- Aspiration - Is My Child At Risk
- Tips to Eat and Swallow Safely
- Gagging in Babies and Children
- When Your Child is Having a VFSS (Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study)
- Having a Swallowing Test - Videofluoroscopy
- When Your Child is having a FEES
Texture Modified Diets
- Dysphagia Soft Diet
- Easy To Chew Diet
- Minced Diet
- Pureed Bread Products
- Pureed Diet
- Thickened Drinks and Liquids - Pediatrics
Feeding Skill Development
- Your Baby's Feeding Cues
- Benefits of Feeding in a Side Lying Position
- Feeding Toddlers and Young Children
- Your Baby's First Tastes
- Introducing New Foods to Your Child
- New Foods Step by Step
- Food Ideas by Colour
- Food Ideas by Flavour
- Food Ideas by Texture
- Food Play
- Food Textures for Children
- Helping Your Child Learn to Bite and Chew
- Learning to Drink from a Cup
- Helping Your Child Accept More Foods
- Oral Experiences - Sensory Activities for Children
Nutrition
- Adding Calories and Protein to Your Child's Diet
- Constipation in Babies and Children
- Feeding Your Preterm Baby at Home
- Healthy Snacking
- High Protein High Calorie Meal and Snack Ideas
- How Much Infant Formula to Prepare for Baby
- Iron for Babies and Young Children
- Iron Foods for Children Ages 1 and Up
- Peanut and Tree Nut-Free Meals and Snacks
- Safe Preparation of High Calorie Breastmilk with Infant Formula Powder
- Safe Preparation of High Calorie Breastmilk with Liquid Infant Formula Concentrate
- Safe Preparation of Infant Formula from Liquid Concentrate
- Safe Preparation of Powdered Infant Formula
- Safe Preparation of Ready-To-Feed Infant Formula
- Snacks
- Starting Solid Foods: When and How
- Starting Solid Foods: First Foods
- Starting Solid Foods: Making Food for Your Baby
- Starting Solid Foods: Drinks]
- When Your Child's Weight is Ahead of Height
- When Your Child's Weight Measures Low
Oral Health
Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Autism and Nutrition article - from UnlockFood.ca (Dietitians of Canada)
- Book: Food Refusal and Avoidant Eating in Children, including those with Autism Spectrum Conditions: A Practical Guide for Parents and Professionals. Gillian Harris and Elizabeth Shea, 2018.
Equipment & Supplies
- Choosing a Bottle Nipple
- Purchasing a Highchair
- Pacifiers / Soothers (Canadian Paediatric Society)
- Equipment and Supplies List
Books
- Anxious Eaters, Anxious Mealtimes: Practical and Compassionate Strategies for Mealtime Peace. Marsha Dunn Klein, 2019.
- Conquer Picky Eating for Teens and Adults: Activities and Strategies for Selective Eaters. Jenny McGlothlin and Katja Rowell, 2018.
- From Picky to Powerful: The Mindset, Strategy, and Know-How You Need to Empower Your Picky Eater. Maryann Jacobsen, 2016.
- Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating: A Step-by-Step Guide for Overcoming Selective Eating, Food Aversion, and Feeding Disorders. Katja Rowell and Jenny McGlothlin, 2015.
- Helping Children Develop a Positive Relationship with Food: A practical guide for Early Years Professionals. Jo Cormack, 2018.
- Love Me, Feed Me: The Adoptive Parent’s Guide to Ending the Worry About Weight, Picky Eating, Power Struggles and More. Katja Rowell M.D, 2012.
- Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family: How to Eat, How to Raise Good Eaters, How to Cook. Ellyn Satter, 1999.
Websites
- Extreme Picky Eating: https://www.extremepickyeating.com/
- SOS Approach to Feeding: https://sosapproachtofeeding.com/
General Health Information
- AHS Nutrition Services Workshops & Classes: https://www.ahs.ca/nutrition/Page17512.aspx
- The Ellyn Satter Institute: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/
- Healthy Parents Healthy Children: https://www.healthyparentshealthychildren.ca/
- MyHealth.Alberta.ca: https://myhealth.alberta.ca/
- Raising Our Healthy Kids: http://www.raisingourhealthykids.com/
- Feeding Babies Video Playlist: bit.ly/feedingbabiesvideos
