Nutrition and Growth

Growth Charts

• CDC/NCHS - United States Clinical Growth Charts
• CDC/NCHS - United States Growth Charts
• Growth Charts for Children with Down Syndrome

Breastfeeding

• New Beginnings
  articles from the magazine on breastfeeding for parents from Lalecheleague.
• AnotherLook at breastfeeding and hiv/aids
  AnotherLook is a nonprofit organization dedicated to gathering information, raising critical questions, and stimulating needed research about breastfeeding in the context of HIV/AIDS.
• Breastfeeding babies with special needs
  Article about possible challenges, and how to solve them. Including good links.
• Fingerfeeding
  Finger feeding is a technique which allows you to feed the baby without giving the baby an artificial nipple. Finger feeding is also a method which helps train the baby to take the breast. If you want to breastfeed successfully, it is better to avoid the use of artificial nipples before your milk supply is well established.

Nutrition

• ABC's of Feeding Preschoolers Daily Food Choices
  Author: Ann A. Hertzler, Extension Specialist, Human Nutrition and Foods, Virginia Tech. Publication Number 348-009, May 1996
• US Department of Agriculture-Food and Nutrition Service (USDA-FNS)
  FNS increases food security and reduces hunger in partnership with cooperating organizations by providing children and low-income people access to food, a healthful diet, and nutrition education in a manner that supports American agriculture and inspires public confidence.
• European Vegetarian Union (EVU)
• Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation (online articles) provides practical, accurate and educational information on nutrition, food preparation, non-toxic dentistry, holistic therapies, soil enrichment, natural animal husbandry and environmental enhancement.
• Transdisciplinary approach to pediatric undernutrition by Daniel Kessler, M.D. FAAP, Phoenix, AZarticle in Developmental and behavioral News, Vol 8, No 1, 1999 of the American Academy of Pediatrics
• Resources collected by the 'Assuring Pediatric Nutrition in the Community' project This project was funded by a grant from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and is supported by the Center on Human Development and Disability at the University of Washington.

Oral Motor Development

• New-Visions-feeding articles
  oral-feeding development, issues surrounding tube feedings, diet and nutrition, and oral-motor development for feeding and speec
• Oral Motor & Feeding Skills
  artcle by Sharon Fiocca, M.A., CCC-SLP
  Normal development and how to achive te optimal for a child with down syndrome.
• A Sensorimotor Approach to Feeding Problems in a Toddler with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Failure to Thrive
  article by Rhoda P. Erhardt, OTR
  
• Identification of Swallowing Patterns Associated with Dysphagia
  Mark Mizuko, Rachel Komarek, John Hatten, (University of Minnesota Duluth), Joe Piette & Peggy Stone (St.Mary's/Duluth Clinic Health Systems)
  a description of normal swallowing, a little video about it (online) and a video from a child with dysphagia swallowing.
• Food for Thought
  Article By Lori L. Overland, M.S., CCC/SLP
  Published in ADVANCE for Directors in Rehabilitation Magazine May 2001
  "Many feeding aversions don't exist simply in and of themselves. They're often secondary to sensory or motor issues."
• Playful puppets Puppets that entertain, stimulate the imagination, educate and aid health professionals; Swallow along with traditional hand puppets and people and large puppets.
  Some of our swallowing puppets also have articulators for speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists and other health professionals.
  In addition we have a page devoted to ideas for parents, teachers and librarians who use puppets with young children.
• Helpful Hints For Feeding
• Feeding & Nutrition Videos (Video #56-59)

(Par)Enteral Nutrition

• European Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ESPEN)
• American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
• North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
• American Society for Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition
• Pediasure - Growth, Nutrition for Healthy Children - Pediasure.com PediaSure

Gastroesophageal Reflux

• How do doctors diagnose gastroesophageal reflux?

Support

• The MAGIC Foundation Homepage
  this is a national nonprofit organization created to provide support services for the families of children afflicted with a wide variety of chronic and/or critical disorders, syndromes and diseases that affect a child's growth. Some of the diagnoses are quite common while others are very rare.