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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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Of the four parental 'feeding styles,' only one is good for kids' health, experts say By Lisa Drayer, CNN If you're a parent, you are well aware that managing your kids' activity schedules, homework, doctor's appointments, play dates and much more all comes with the territory. But an important part of the parenting job description -- and one that may be hidden in a cloud of unconscious Keep Reading >>
Experts will tell you that if you want to raise a kid who eats just about everything, you should feed them what you eat — assuming you're eating a varied, healthy diet. It's what most cultures have done for most of human history. Read more here Keep Reading >>
Collaboration This will be an unusual post for my blog- usually I stick to informational type posts, however, I would like to tag onto to a vibe that I have been feeling lately in some of the face books groups and list serves I belong too and that is one of collaboration. I want to say some special thank you’s to clinicians for being gracious and collegial. I’ll start with a thank you to Keep Reading >>
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! 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 >>
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 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 >>