Synopsis
This collection of 35 reproducible chapters and 16 food reference charts was written by Marsha and Suzanne, along with parents of children fed by tube, a physician and dietitians, Ellen Duperret, RD and Jude Trautlein, RD. It is for parents and professionals who together are making the choice to try homemade blended formula for tube feeding. Topics include: Parent, physician and dietitian perspectives—Why homemade blended formulas and where to start? Specifics on how to create homemade blended formula—Food guidelines, help with hydration and constipation—Making tube feedings into mealtimes—Equipment choices -Mealtime communication, socialization environments, stress… and much more…
About the Author
Marsha Dunn Klein, MEd, OTR/L, founder of Mealtime Notions LLC, is a pediatric occupational therapist, author and educator who specializes in eating and mealtime issues with infants and children. She has a private practice in Tucson, Arizona, Mealtime Connections, LLC (www.mealtimeconnections.com) with two other pediatric therapists. They evaluate and treat children who have feeding challenges. Her energies are focused on helping children who have special motor, sensory and mealtime challenges. Marsha has a bachelor of science degree in occupational therapy from Sargent College of Allied Health Professions at Boston University and a master of education in special education from the University of Arizona. She is Neurodevelopmental Trained (NDT). Marsha has over 40 years experience assessing, treating, and working in partnership with families of children who have cerebral palsy and other neurological issues, prematurity, sensory processing disorders, visual impairments, genetic and metabolic disorders, as well as autism. She works with many families whose children are fed by supplemental tube feeding. Marsha helps with the oral motor sensory, tube feeding aspect of feeding. Support is given through individual evaluation and treatment, education, parent and professional consultation, education workshops and resources. Suzanne Evans Morris, Ph.D. is a speech-language pathologist with New Visions near Charlottesville, Virginia. With more than 50 years of clinical experience, she is nationally and internationally known for her work in identifying and treating young children with pre-speech and feeding disorders. Dr. Morris maintains a practice that includes direct clinical work, continuing education workshops, development of clinical materials, and clinical research. She is the owner and director of New Visions, which sponsors innovative workshops for the teaching of feeding-related skills, and provides family-oriented clinical services. Dr. Morris has published dozens of articles in major journals, and is the author of the Pre-Speech Assessment Scale, a rating scale for the measurement of pre-speech behaviors in children from birth through two years, and co-author of Pre-Feeding Skills: A Comprehensive Resource for Mealtime Development, 2nd edition, theMealtime Participation Guide, and the Homemade Blended Formula Handbook.
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