Overview

Pediatric Dysphagia is designed to be a primary practical resource for professionals involved in making decisions to optimize overall status of infants and children with swallowing and feeding disorders. It is practice-friendly in concise and practical ways, but is not “how-to” in a mechanistic sense. The latest data based evidence provides a rationale for practice profiles, clinical pathways, decision trees, tables, and pros/cons of specific intervention processes. The values of team focused evaluation and intervention will be stressed in ways that are functional, regardless of the nature of the team. Focuses will be on decision making for management of diverse swallowing/feeding problems in pediatrics—evidence based via literature with outcomes, neurodevelopment and neurophysiology, airway/pulmonary system, gastrointestinal issues, and parent/child interactions.

This book will be useful for professionals as they strive to meet the needs of increased number of infants who survive prematurity and demonstrate swallowing and feeding problems. Professionals follow both pre-term and term infants who have cardiac and GI tract surgeries, pulmonary problems, craniofacial and a whole host of genetic syndromes, metabolic conditions, and allergy related feeding/swallowing issues.

Audience

Primary Subject: Speech and Language Pathology / Swallowing
Secondary Subject: Speech and Language Pathology / Pediatrics
Secondary Subject: Speech and Language Pathology / Neurogenics
Audience Level: Professional/Textbook - 90 Days

• Introduction: Purpose and Scope
• Definitions/Classifications
• Anatomy and Physiology of Swallowing
• Neural Control of Swallowing
• Neurodevelopmental Changes in Swallowing over First Few Years of Life
• Clinical Swallowing Evaluation Principles
• Instrumental Swallowing Evaluation Principles
• Aspiration: Considerations for Oral Feeding
• Nutrition Principles for infants and children
• Swallowing/Feeding Evaluation in NICU with Pathways for Decision Making
• Intervention (Habilitation) Options in NICU
• Swallowing/Feeding Evaluation: Primary Airway Issues with Pathways for Decision Making
• Intervention (Habilitation/Rehabilitation) Options: Primary Airway Issues
• Swallowing/Feeding Evaluation: Primary Neurologic Issues with Pathways for Decision Making
• Intervention Options: Neurologic Issues
• Swallowing/Feeding Evaluation: Primary Gastrointestinal Tract Issues with Pathways for Decision Making
• Intervention Options: GI Tract Issues
• Special Problems: Decision Making for Intervention Options
  • Craniofacial anomalies
  • Structural anomalies
  • Tube feeding & weaning
  • Behavior Feeding Issues
  • Drooling (Salivary Management)
  • Genetic syndromes

About The Author

Joan Arvedson, PhD

Joan C. Arvedson, PhD, CCC-SLP, BC-NCD, BRS-S, ASHA Fellow, is Program Coordinator of Feeding and Swallowing Services at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. She is Clinical Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, at Medical College of Wisconsin. She has three books in publication. Dr. Arvedson is internationally recognized for her expertise in pediatric dysphagia.

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