Speech Therapy diagnostics of swallowing disorders and feeding difficulties in childhood - foreign approaches available in the Czech Republic

Abstract

The assessment of the feeding skills of infants and older children is an important part of speech-language pathologist intervention in the field of paediatric dysphagia. This article presents some paediatric feeding assessment and treatment tools from abroad, which are also accessible to specialists in the Czech Republic, as well as basic information on the infant-driven, or cue-based approach to infant feeding.

Keywords

• dysphagia
• feeding and swallowing disorder in children
• feeding evaluation
• diagnostic tools for dysphagia
• cue-based feeding
• infant-driven feeding
• online education