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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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I wanted to put up a short post about my weekend activities - I spent the last 3 days in the Neurodevelopmental Treatment Association (NTDA) annual conference focused on postural control. Thank you NDTA for putting on an informative, inspiring, and community building conference on postural control. I am taking a page out of my academic training and assigning myself a reflective essay on the Keep Reading >>
Study explores infant body position and learning A developmental psychologist at the University of California, Riverside, has completed a study that is the first to measure how often infants spend time in different body positions over the first year of life. Read more here: Keep Reading >>
The author, Debbie Lowsky, MS CCC-SLP gave permission for this article to reposted here. Looking at gross motor skills in relation to oral motor skills is an important concept. Developmentally, a child achieves trunk rotation before lateralization in the mouth. Therefore, It make sense that using exercises that develop rotation can help with the progression toward chewing. I also use rotation Keep Reading >>