# Feeding Challenges in Young Children

Strategies and Specialized Interventions for Success

This book with CD-ROM gives practical, research-based guidance on addressing feeding challenges of young children through systematic assessment, collaboration, and strategic interventions.

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Young children's feeding issues can be a complex challenge for early childhood professionals, especially since most get little to no training addressing this key developmental area. Now there's a single comprehensive resource that provides early childhood educators and interventionists with specific, practical, research-based guidance on resolving a wide range of feeding issues.

Ideal for a wide range of professionals working with young children birth–5 years across school, home, and child care settings, this book-and-CD set gives readers in-depth background information, how-to strategies, and helpful tools for addressing feeding challenges. Integrating the dual perspectives of the authors—a child development expert and an early childhood special education expert—the book helps readers

- **understand the entire process of feeding development** and how feeding affects early childhood development
- gain familiarity with variations in feeding contexts, including **diverse cultural and at-risk groups** and their impact on feeding choices and attitudes
- **support children with specific feeding issues** (see below) with specialized, evidence-based interventions and strategies
- **learn the basics of screening and assessment procedures** and widely used instruments
- **develop appropriate, individualized feeding plans** that align with children's IEPs and IFSPs
- **strengthen collaboration** between parents, caregivers, and professionals on a child's feeding team
- **monitor feeding progress** through anecdotal records, observations, and data-based approaches

With almost **50 pages of printable tools, forms, and handouts**, the included CD-ROM gives professionals practical help with every step of improving children's feeding issues. Professionals will get daily feeding logs, recordkeeping forms, quick-guides to feeding milestones and red flags, and tip sheets on critical issues such as breastfeeding, feeding team requirements, and positioning strategies and specialized feeding equipment.

A vital resource for every member of a child's feeding team, this much-needed guidebook will help readers resolve one of the most critical issues in early childhood development—and ensure better overall outcomes for young children.

**Help young children with**

- risk factors for feeding difficulties
- sensory-based feeding issues
- oral motor difficulties
- neurological disorders
- anatomical differences
- feeding requirements

## Reviews

Philippa Campbell, Occupational Therapy Professor, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA \- February 1, 2012  
"Few authors have been as successful in synthesizing and condensing the wide array of information about children and eating into a book that is as readable and usable as this one."

Jennifer Kilgo, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Education \- February 1, 2012  
"What an invaluable resource! I would highly recommend it to colleagues teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and practitioners from multiple disciplines."

Authors: [Deborah A. Bruns Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=2479&Name=Deborah+A.+Bruns+Ph.D.), [Stacy D. Thompson Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=2480&Name=Stacy+D.+Thompson+Ph.D.)  
Foreword Authors: [Laurie A. Dinnebeil Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=2527&Name=Laurie+A.+Dinnebeil+Ph.D.), [Barbara H. Fiese Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=3004&Name=Barbara+H.+Fiese+Ph.D.)

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[How do you address feeding challenges in young children?](http://archive.brookespublishing.com/author-interviews/bruns-71219-interview.htm)