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Hi, I'm Krisi Brackett, MS SLP/CCC 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 >>
"It was a challenge to get 21 different countries to agree, with totally different thoughts, idiosyncrasies, traditions and culture," said Vázquez. "We had to clarify definitions and totally conceptual issues. A titanic task: we talked about the fact that this project began 5 years ago and is only now being completed." Read more: Keep Reading >>
I want to say Happy National Nutrition Month and Thank you to the dietitians working with children with PFD with a special shout out to the RD's working on the UNC Pediatric Feeding Team! This is a guest post from my colleague Lisa Richardson, MS, RD, LDN. Lisa and I wrote the nutrition chapter in the revised edition of The Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Disorders Source Book (pro-ed). Keep Reading >>
Let me start with a sincere thank you to everyone who has followed along with this blog from the beginning. I realized as I was updating some of the pages this morning that this is the 24th year of the whole endeavor which started as a paper newsletter that I typed, printed, and mailed out with the first issue dated July 1999. Oh, how I remember the days of typing this up, going to Kinko’s to Keep Reading >>
Interesting listen from NPR https://www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1099852517/a-formula-shortage-shows-how-policy-societal-pressure-impact-babies-parents This week, the FDA announced new steps to ease a nationwide baby formula shortage prompted, in part, by a temporary shutdown of a facility that makes formula back in February... (read more at link above) Keep Reading >>
(Note: I am not personally affiliated with this research project. Krisi Brackett) Keep Reading >>
Hello! , I wanted to invite SLPs and OTs who read the blog to participate in a research study being conducted by one of my colleagues. In full disclosure, I am not involved in this study, just posting the info. Krisi There are a multitude of continuing education trainings out there for pediatric feeding and we want to hear your feedback on the available continuing ed! SLPs and OTs who have Keep Reading >>
The Feeding Matters' International Pediatric Feeding Disorder Conference (IPFDC) https://www.feedingmatters.org/international-pfd-conference/ Students and families have reduce registration rates. The IPFDC will be held April 21-22, 2022, with Pre-Conference events on April 20, 2022. The Feeding Matters' International Pediatric Feeding Disorder Conference (IPFDC) has been a Keep Reading >>