Feb 8, 2023 | Resources, Social Validity
“The Dalai Lama noted that, “Genuine compassion is based on a clear acceptance or recognition that others, like oneself, want happiness and have the right to overcome suffering.”
Children have the right to overcome suffering–particularly when they are missing critical nutrients and sufficient calories–in a manner that leads to efficient and robust outcomes. … As the caregiver herself noted, delays to these obtained effects might have led to “an unknown amount of traumatic NG insertions, ER visits, hospital admissions, infections, surgeries, etc.”
“I’ve seen the feeding team work their magic to rid children of scurvy, avoid or remove feeding tubes, reduce failure-to-thrive, and decrease hospital admissions. To me, this is the epitome of being compassionate providers who mitigate the risk of trauma through effective intervention.”
Feb 7, 2023 | Resources
On this month’s episode of Your Child’s Brain #podcast on WYPR, Dr. Brad Schlaggar, President and CEO, and Dr. Peter Girolami, Director of the Pediatric Feeding Disorders Program, joined Dr. Richard Katz of Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital to discuss #feedingdisorders in infants, toddlers, children and teens. Listen now: https://bit.ly/3B3YiVn #YourChildsBrain #PediatricFeedingDisorders
Also Join us on a Feedign Journey: Free articles from KKI’s Blog, Home Plate.
Jan 24, 2023 | Featured, Publications, Resources
New edition of the Australian Autism Handbook is finally available in print! Beyond grateful to have had the opportunity to take part in “Eating” in: “The Big Issues: Sleeping, Toilet Training, and Eating” with Dr. Sarah Leadley Taylor. Thanks a million and congrats to Benison O’Reilly and Seana Smith!
“A fully updated edition of the widely praised and most trusted Australian guide on how to raise a child with autism spectrum disorder.” “Advice from leading world experts delivers the information you can TRUST.”
Oct 14, 2022 | Resources
Today is Allied Health Professions Day (14 October 2022). Please join us in celebrating and thanking AHPs who include dietitians, occupational therapists, psychologists and speech pathologists for the valuable work they do.
We are putting the spotlight on psychologists, Jessica Gowans, Tessa Taylor, PhD, BCBA-D and Dr. Sarah Leadley, who kindly volunteered their time to provide information videos that ausEE shared as part of this year’s Feeding Tube Awareness Week ‘Virtual Education Program’.
Psychologists, Dr Tessa Taylor and Dr Sarah Leadley presented their research on childhood feeding difficulties and experience with home-based interventions in Australia and New Zealand to help children with tube dependence learn to eat new foods and progress with feeding skills.
Jessica Gowans, a psychologist and tubie parent shared tips, information and resources on how to look after yourself as a tubie parent/carer.
Aug 31, 2022 | Publications
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Aug 30, 2022 | Publications
Many parents report huge struggles in trying to get their kids to take medicine, laxatives, or supplements. After intervention, if children get off of feeding tubes or baby bottles, parents need new ways to get medications in. Even though this is a very frequent and...
Jul 21, 2022 | Presentations
Jun 11, 2022 | Presentations
Jun 11, 2022 | Featured, Publications, Social Validity
Surprisingly, despite its importance and attention given in discussion currently in our field, supporting data and research are very much lacking. Data are needed in paediatric feeding to help accurately disseminate this highly important, effective, acceptable, and valued treatment, increasing access to treatment for families in need to improve their quality of life, and increasing opportunities for training/education for professionals. This is the first report to our knowledge to analyse social validity data comprehensively across variables such as participant characteristics, goals, treatment processes, treatment components, and outcomes. Ratings were high across the board (4.8 & 4.9 out of 5). Check out the results/graphs/tables! Future research could get caregiver input to design assessments, and use methods to analyse open-ended data (as in Anderson et al., 2021), in addition to the extensions to this work in Taylor & Taylor 2022b.
May 3, 2022 | Featured, Publications
I was trained separately on group statistics and visual inspection of single-case experimental design, but not trained on objective supplements for visual inspection. After much searching I found this novel approach (machine learning/artificial intelligence) by Dr. Marc Lanovaz that is being used in many other fields such as medicine. This method could improve accuracy of decision making, training efficiency, and communicability/quantification of results.
