title: Newly Emerging Feeding Difficulties in a 33-Year-Old Adult With CHARGE Syndrome.
abstract: Feeding and swallowing difficulties are common among individuals with CHARGE syndrome. Many children require gastrostomy tube feeding in their early years and often undergo a delay in feeding and oral-motor skill development. There is little information available on adults with CHARGE syndrome, and the feeding difficulties they face. The present case describes newly emerging mouth over-stuffing feeding behaviors and feeding difficulties in a 33-year-old adult with CHARGE syndrome who had not undergone feeding therapy since childhood.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Canada.
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hudson
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Canada ; Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Canada.
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Blake
keywords: CHARGE syndrome; Feeding difficulties; Mouth over-stuffing