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Hi, I'm Krisi Brackett, PhD, CCC-SLP,C/NDT. This blog is dedicated to current information on pediatric feeding and swallowing issues. Email me at feedingnewsletter@gmail.com with questions.

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Lactation-Feeding Clinic, an Innovative Model of Care

August 30, 2020 by Krisi Brackett 3 Comments

In this post, I would like to highlight the Lactation-Feeding clinic at UNC Hospitals. Lillian Scott, M.S., CCC-SLP, IBCLC and Cambria Stephens BSN, RN, IBCLC have developed a wonderful model of care for infants and mothers who are breast feeding or desire using human milk. This clinic has been a needed adjunct to the feeding team and has allowed us to provide better support for our Keep Reading >>

Filed Under: breast feeding Tagged With: breast feeding, breast feeding issues, lactation feeding clinic, speech and lactation

PFD AS A STAND-ALONE DIAGNOSIS

August 29, 2020 by Krisi Brackett 1 Comment

PFD ADVOCACY IN ACTION: PFD AS A STAND-ALONE DIAGNOSIS Published by Jaclyn Pederson, Feeding Matters CEO on Aug 28, 2020 More than a symptom, pediatric feeding disorder is its own diagnosis. Recently, Feeding Matters received word that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has officially approved Pediatric Feeding Disorder to be a stand-alone diagnostic code (R code) Keep Reading >>

Filed Under: General Feeding Information Tagged With: Feeding Matters, PFD diagnosis

Participate in a Survey

August 28, 2020 by Krisi Brackett Leave a Comment

Dear Colleagues, We invite you to participate in a survey about your experience with feeding problems in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We are interested in learning more about which practitioners are evaluating and treating children with ASD and what types of treatments are being used to address feeding problems. We have recently completed a study of a structured Keep Reading >>

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Common Cultural Feeding Practices of Latino Families.

August 15, 2020 by Krisi Brackett 9 Comments

Some of you know that I recently went back to school to get my doctoral degree. That is one of the reasons you are seeing sporadic posts from me.  I thought I would share some of the information that I am learning as I research different topics in pediatric feeding. Last semester, for one of my classes, I did a mini project looking at common cultural feeding practices in Latino families. Keep Reading >>

Filed Under: General Feeding Information, Research Tagged With: Hispanic cultural feeding, Latino cultural feeding

The Sensory-Motor Approach to Modified Baby-Led Weaning for Babies with Feeding Challenges

July 24, 2020 by Krisi Brackett 5 Comments

by Jill Rabin & Lori Overland Baby-Led Weaning has become “all the rage” with many parents choosing this method of transitioning their little ones to solid foods. Everyone is jumping in, with speech pathologists, dietitians, occupational therapists and moms flooding social media and the internet with BLW courses, BLW Facebook pages, BLW food and Pinterest ideas and countless Keep Reading >>

Filed Under: Feeding Treatment, Oral-motor and Sensory Tagged With: Jill Rapin, Lori Overland, Modified Baby Led Weaning

Survey for EI Professionals

July 14, 2020 by Krisi Brackett Leave a Comment

Dr. Brown is conducting a survey for EI professionals - if interested! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9HN75VZ Keep Reading >>

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To Pace or Not To Pace – And the Survey Says…

July 14, 2020 by Krisi Brackett 2 Comments

By Lisa Kleinz MA, SLP/L, CLC CNT Director of Education, Dr. Brown Dr. Brown’s Medical Healthcare Professional Pacing Survey Results– Where to go if guided by the data?   Last month, Dr. Brown’s Medical discussed pacing as a strategy to assist infants with the complex task of coordinating sucking, swallowing, Keep Reading >>

Filed Under: Feeding Treatment Tagged With: Pacing

Webinar from Real Food Blends

July 12, 2020 by Krisi Brackett Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: workshops Tagged With: feeding webinar, Real Food Blends webinar

Pea Protein Milk

June 19, 2020 by Krisi Brackett Leave a Comment

By Abby Moore from mindbodygreen.com Nondairy, plant-based milks have become increasingly popular in the past few years. Though oat milk and almond milk are arguably the most common, pea protein milk may be the most beneficial. To find out for sure, mbg consulted nutrition experts to learn how pea protein milk is made, the nutritional values and benefits of it, plus Keep Reading >>

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Psychometric Properties of the Infant and Child Feeding Questionnaire

June 19, 2020 by Krisi Brackett Leave a Comment

Objectives To report the updated psychometric properties of a child feeding questionnaire and to report the psychometric properties of a screening tool developed from this questionnaire. A secondary objective was to consider if items from a behavior checklist embedded within the Infant and Child Feeding Questionnaire may be useful in making referrals for feeding problems. Read more Keep Reading >>

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On the research front

West, K. M. (2024). Treating Pediatric Feeding Disorders and Dysphagia: Evidence-Based Interventions for School-Based Clinicians. Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_lshss-23-00016 This article addresses the growing prevalence of children with pediatric feeding disorder (PFD) and dysphagia within school-based speech-language pathology caseloads. Keep Reading >>

Feeding Treatment

Gagging and the Salt Technique

During my dissertation research on children with PFD and gagging, I came across an interesting technique to treat gagging that was briefly mentioned in a few dental journals and one dental dissertation. It was referred to as the salting Keep Reading >>

Sharing UNC Children’s – North Carolina Children’s Hospital’s post

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1LWL3PKJ6r UNC Children's posted about one of wonderful kids from feeding clinic and I am sharing here! Last year, we obtained an Innovative UNC grant to bring TEACCH, the UNC autism center (https://teacch.com/) Keep Reading >>

Universal Aspects in Feeding Intervention

Let's talk about universal aspects in feeding intervention This is any idea I have been playing around with for awhile now. We all know that there are different strategies and philosophies in feeding treatment. This is a good thing- we need many Keep Reading >>

Understanding Parenting Styles in Feeding Therapy

As feeding therapists, we work closely with caregivers and parents. Perhaps our biggest success in feeding intervention is helping a parent be able to feed their child. One way we do this is to help caregivers understand their child's cues and how to Keep Reading >>

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Swallowing

Implementing FEES for Infants in CVICU & NICU

BackTable / ENT / Podcast / Episode #165 Implementing FEES for Infants in CVICU & NICU with Olivia Brooks, SLP In this episode, pediatric speech language pathologist (SLP) Olivia Brooks (University of Florida Shands Hospital) shares her Keep Reading >>

What is a MBSS- video for kids

I wanted to share a video we made to help children coming to UNC for a modified barium swallow study. Please share with your clients if you think it is helpful. It's also on our feeding team page Keep Reading >>

Swallowing Difficulties May Be Caused by Misfiring Neurons

in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN) Pediatric dysphagia (swallowing difficulties) is a frequent and serious clinical complication in a large number of clinically defined neurodevelopmental disorders including the genetic Keep Reading >>

Swallow: A Documentary- Dysphagia

Nice Documentary on Dysphagia from the National Foundation of Swallowing Disorders. Keep Up the Good Work Everyone! Keep Reading >>

Oral-Motor and Sensory

Impact of Oral Motor Impairment in Infants with Poor Feeding Webinar

Impact of Oral Motor Impairment in Infants with Poor Feeding  Presented by Debra Beckman, MS, CCC-SLP, https://www.beckmanoralmotor.com/ A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending a wonderful free webinar presented by Debra Beckman, Keep Reading >>

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Scientists Just Identified a Brand New Muscle Layer in The Human Jaw  DAVID NIELD23 DECEMBER 2021  It turns out there are still exciting new discoveries to be made in a field as well-studied as human anatomy: researchers have confirmed the Keep Reading >>

Poster: Child Cain’t Chew

This poster from 2018 was shared with me by Sally Asquith who gave permission to post here. The objective of this study: REVIEW CURRENT LITERATURE PERTINENT TO THE ROLE OF ORAL-MOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN DX AND TX OF PFD. COMPLETE A RETROSPECTIVE Keep Reading >>

The Sensory-Motor Approach to Modified Baby-Led Weaning for Babies with Feeding Challenges

by Jill Rabin & Lori Overland Baby-Led Weaning has become “all the rage” with many parents choosing this method of transitioning their little ones to solid foods. Everyone is jumping in, with speech pathologists, dietitians, Keep Reading >>

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Case Studies

Challenging case with advice from Suzanne Evans Morris, PhD

In this post, I have described a challenging case  and solicited advice from Suzanne Evans Morris, PhD, one of the experts in our field. Suzanne graciously provided commentary and advice and challenged me to look differently at the feeding Keep Reading >>

Complex Case – Changing Therapy Strategies When Needed

Complex Case - Changing Therapy Strategies When Needed *I shared this case with Suzanne Evans Morris and she provided some   guidance and analysis at the end. Hope you enjoy  John is a 6 year old male with a complex medical Keep Reading >>

Feeding Harley

I am excited to share Harley’s story, written by his Mother about her journey to help her son wean from his g-tube and become an oral feeder. Thank you Liz for sharing and inspiring us all to continue looking for answers! I feel I do need post a Keep Reading >>

Cases From Clinic

Cases From Clinic This is my second post highlighting some of our kids and how we provide multidisciplinary intervention using a medical/nutritional/behavioral approach. I post this hoping it might give some treatment ideas to clinicians. There Keep Reading >>

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Recent Posts

  • On the research front
  • Gagging and the Salt Technique
  • Sharing UNC Children’s – North Carolina Children’s Hospital’s post
  • On the research front….
  • Purees and Baby Led feeding Strategies

Recent Comments

  • Jessica Roberts-Grant on Special Considerations in the Treatment of Pediatric Feeding Disorders in Autistic Patients (2.5 Hours)- Free webinar
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