Pre-Feeding Skills, Second Edition

Suzanne Evans Morris, PhD, CCC-SLP
Marsha Dunn Klein, MEd, OTR/L
Foreward by Ellyn Satter

The revised second edition of Prefeeding Skills offers a comprehensive resource for mealtime development that focuses on the entire mealtime experience and the feeding relationship for clients from birth through adolescence. The book includes foundational information on normal feeding and development, anatomy and physiology of swallowing and eating, limiting factors that influence feeding and assessment and treatment. All chapters have been completely revised and updated with new information, research, trends, references, and art.

New chapters have been added including:

■ Mealtime Foundations
■ Mealtime Influences
■ Mealtime Roles
■ Supportive Diagnostic Testing
■ Assessment and Treatment Principles
■ Specifics of Oral Motor Treatment
■ Gastrointestinal Influences on Feeding
■ Sensory Influences on Feeding
■ Autism
■ Children who do not eat enough to grow
■ Nutritional Influences on Feeding
■ Self Feeding
■ Children who experience mealtime challenges due to prematurity, visual impairments, autism.

You will find Prefeeding Skills, Second Edition to be an excellent resource on the entire mealtime experience-especially for the infant or child with special mealtime challenges. This edition looks way beyond the mouth and oral treatment and into the "big" picture of mealtimes and relationships. You will want this book.

798 pages, soft cover, 8 1/2" x 11"