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Feeding Aspects

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Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan

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Feeding is essential to an individual’s life and has an impact on multiple domains. Feeding is imperative for normal growth and pubertal development in the child and for acquisition of a healthy nutritional state in all individuals. Feeding is also an integral component in socialization. Early childhood is a critical time for development of healthy normal feeding skills which persist through a lifetime. Developmental disabilities can hinder the acquisition of feeding skills, impair nutritional health and threaten social development. An attentive multidisciplinary team can provide guidance to the individual and the family to optimize feeding experiences and nutritional health.

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  1. Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Hepatology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Elana M. Bern M.D., M.P.H.

  2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Elana M. Bern M.D., M.P.H.

  3. Department of Otolaryngology & Communication Enhancement, Boston Children’s Hospital, 333 Longwood Avenue, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Laura Minando M.A., CCC-SLP

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  1. Innovative Solutions for Disadvantage and Disability and Department of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    I. Leslie Rubin

  2. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical Services, Division for Developmental and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel

    Joav Merrick

  3. Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

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Bern, E.M., Minando, L. (2016). Feeding Aspects. In: Rubin, I.L., Merrick, J., Greydanus, D.E., Patel, D.R. (eds) Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18096-0_102

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