Parents' Strategies to Support Mealtime Participation of Their Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.
OBJECTIVE. We identified and described the strategies parents use to support the mealtime participation of their child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). METHOD. Twelve families with children with ASD (ages 2--7 yr) participated in videotaped mealtime observations. Qualitative content analysis was...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 73; no. 1; pp. 1 - 11 |
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