Improving Relationship-Based Feeding of Infants and Young Children with Disabilities: Developing a Guideline for Practice.
Feeding is a significant co-occupation of young children and their caregivers, unfolding in a social context. While addressing feeding challenges comprehensively because multiple contributing factors, the social-emotional dimension is often overlooked. This paper proposes a relationship-based feedin...
| Publicado en: | Open Journal of Occupational Therapy (OJOT) Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 1 - 15 |
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Open Journal of Occupational Therapy
Fall2025
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