"Giving Me the Self-Confidence to Tackle It": Mothers' Experiences Participating In The Engaged Eaters Program, A Caregiver-Mediated Feeding Intervention.
The purpose of this study was to understand caregivers' experience of participating in a caregiver-mediated in-home feeding intervention, the Engaged Eaters Program, for their young autistic child. This qualitative study utilized a thematic approach to analyze post-intervention semi-structured inter...
| Published in: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 1045 - 1057 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2025
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