Intervention Strategies for Promoting Feeding Skills in Infants with sensory Deficits

Abstract

Feeding is multi-sensory, highly stimulating experience for infants and young children. Feeding interactions with children who have oral sensory processing deficits may be therapeutic and pleasurable or may be stressful and disorganizing. Specific oral motor and feeding problems in hyposensilive/hypotonic children and hypersensitivethy ertonic children are described. Occupational therapy intervention t k' at emphasizes sensory stimulation related to the environment, handling before and during feeding, and the sensory qualities of food is explained.

Non-nutritive suck parameters in preterm infants with RDS

“…Unstable neonatal conditions associated with lung disease or respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) require oxygen supplementation which means trussing the lower face with tubes and tape (Case-Smith, 1989). Unfortunately, these procedures produce unexpected tactile stimulation and movement restriction of the lower face that may negatively affect the development of the sCPG (Comrie & Helm, 1997;Finan & Barlow, 1996).…”

Paying It Forward: Honoring Jane Case-Smith for Commitment to Occupational Therapy Education and Research

“…Sensory integration (SI) was another pillar of Jane's work. She published widely on the subject (Case-Smith, 1989, 1997Case-Smith & Bryan, 1999;Case-Smith, Butcher, & Reed, 1998;Hall & Case-Smith, 2007) and defended it from bias (Case-Smith & Schaaf, 2012;Schaaf & Case-Smith, 2014). Most recently, she published a comprehensive systematic review of sensory processing interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; Case-Smith, Weaver, & Fristad, 2015).…”

Jane Case-Smith: Servant–Leader and Scholar

“…Given her experiences in the NICU, it makes sense that some of Jane's earliest clinical research examined the unique needs of at-risk infants. At the time, Jane noted that feeding could be either therapeutically regulating or stressful and disorganizing (Case-Smith, 1989). Further work revealed the ability to distinguish between infants on the basis of feeding efficiency (Case-Smith, Cooper, & Scala, 1989).…”