Boggess, Paige and Boswell, Marli and Flores, Beah Grace and Kaur, Mandeep (2022) Occupational therapy home feeding handouts for families to improve mealtime experiences in young children. Masters thesis, Stanbridge University.
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We created handouts for our partnered therapy center as our thesis project. The purpose of this project is to create home feeding handouts with occupational therapy (OT) feeding interventions for families addressing feeding issues with their children. These OT feeding handouts are inclusive of different races, ethnicities, gender, and socioeconomic statuses, through the use of representative pictures and strategies that account for differing lived experiences. These are aimed to be educational to families in order to promote occupational justice and create positive mealtime experiences. The inclusion of evidence-based strategies to address aversive feeding behaviors and increase the dissemination of knowledge regarding picky eating behaviors are included in the handouts to bridge the gaps between families, interventions, and specialists. The evidence-based OT feeding handouts were designed to present a comprehensive overview of different feeding difficulties including oral motor, sensory processing, autism spectrum disorder, and picky eating. Our project aimed to answer the question: Will occupational therapy students have the ability to create evidence-based feeding handouts that can bridge the gap between in-clinic therapy sessions and caregiver-led mealtime experiences in the home? Our population of focus is families with children, toddlers to elementary school age, that display challenges with feeding. Our intervention focused on the implementation of evidence-based OT home feeding handouts. The outcome of this project was to create educational handouts that can be used to increase positive mealtime experiences for families through developing children’s feeding skills. We hypothesized that the evidence-based OT home feeding handouts will help create positive family mealtime experiences which will decrease the risk of feeding difficulties in young children at NJA Therapy.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | MSOTOC011.01 |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics |
| Depositing User: | Kareena Yashko |
| Date Deposited: | 21 May 2024 17:07 |
| Last Modified: | 21 May 2024 17:07 |
| URI: | http://repository.stanbridge.edu/id/eprint/139 |
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