Intervention Strategies for Promoting Feeding Skills in Infants with sensory Deficits.
Feeding is multi-sensory, highly stimulating experience for infants and young children. Feeding interactions with children who have oral sensory processing deficits may be therapeutic and pleasurable or may be stressful and disorganizing. Specific oral motor and feeding problems in hyposensilive/hypotonic children and hypersensitivethy ertonic children are described. Occupational therapy intervention t k' at emphasizes sensory stimulation related to the environment, handling before and during feeding, and the sensory qualities of food is explained.
Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Manassas, VA, 22111.
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