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Online Feeding Courses from CEU Espresso

January 23, 2018 by Krisi Brackett 1 Comment

CEU Espresso is an ASHA Approved Provider!! There are two online courses, which qualify for ASHA CEUs “Table Manners – How to Build an Ethical, Collaborative Feeding Team” (Earn .2 ASHA CEUs - 2 hrs of ETHICS credit!) Who is supposed to do what? Where are those lines that you’re not supposed to cross? How do you get along with the other disciplines and navigate Keep Reading >>

Hello and Happy New Year!

January 5, 2018 by Krisi Brackett 3 Comments

Hello and Happy New Year! I hope everyone is getting off to a great start to their New Year! I want to sincerely thank everyone for their support of this blog. Each year I have doubled or even tripled my blog traffic and it has been a lot of fun as well as educational for me to interact with clinicians and families form all over the world. So, Thank You! I want to let you know some of the Keep Reading >>

Should You Be Worried About the Arsenic in Your Baby Food?

December 17, 2017 by Krisi Brackett Leave a Comment

By RONI CARYN RABIN, DEC. 7, 2017, The New York Times Rice cereal is often a baby’s first solid food, but it contains relatively high amounts of arsenic, a source of growing concern. Now an advocacy group reports that while the levels of this potentially toxic substance in infant rice cereals have dropped slightly in recent years, rice cereals still contain six times more inorganic arsenic, on Keep Reading >>

Dysphagia Diets: IDDSI Replaces NDD

October 22, 2017 by Krisi Brackett 2 Comments

Dysphagia Diets: IDDSI Replaces NDD Standardized Diets: IDDSI Replaces the National Dysphagia Diet by Karen Sheffler, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S of SwallowStudy.com You may hear doctors and health care professionals use terms like: “Soft,” “Mechanical Soft,” “Chopped,” “Ground,” “Blended smooth,” etc, but what does it mean? Ambiguous terms without standardized definitions lead to dangerous Keep Reading >>

Food Insecurity as a reason for feeding difficulty

October 21, 2017 by Krisi Brackett 3 Comments

In this post, I would like to discuss the delicate issue of food insecurity. Food insecurity is defined as “the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food”. Specially, I want to address how not having enough food can affect a child’s oral motor function, weight gain, nutrient intake, eating behavior, and health. And how food insecurity can Keep Reading >>

Feeding Flock – Feeding Assessment Tools

October 14, 2017 by Krisi Brackett 3 Comments

The Feeding Flock research team has developed a set of valid and reliable measures of feeding for assessment of feeding in infants and young children from birth to 7 years old. From the Feeding flock website, http://feedingflock.web.unc.edu/?page_id=461. Feeding Flock Assessment Tools: Early Feeding Skills (EFS) Assessment Intended use: To be completed by a clinician for the Keep Reading >>

Preparing for Grad School or CF Placement in the NICU: Part One

September 30, 2017 by Krisi Brackett Leave a Comment

Preparing for Grad School or CF Placement in the NICU: Part One September 26, 2017 in the ASHA Blog By Catherine Shaker Do you hope to get a coveted pediatric placement during graduate school or for your clinical fellowship experience? Are you interested in an even more specialized subset of pediatrics? Working as a speech-language pathologist in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) Keep Reading >>

Gagging: What You Need to Know About Feeding Baby

July 21, 2017 by Krisi Brackett Leave a Comment

Check out Melanie Potock's article for PARENTS.com Gagging: What You Need to Know About Feeding Baby By Melanie Potock Your baby may gag when learning to eat solid foods, especially with baby led-weaning. Here's when gagging is good—and when you need to be concerned. Baby-led weaning, or baby self-feeding, is more popular than ever when it comes to starting solids. But whether your new Keep Reading >>

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