Pediatric Swallowing and Feeding. Assessment and Management

Pediatric Swallowing and Feeding: Assessment and Management, Third Edition provides information to practitioners interested in and involved with children who demonstrate swallowing and feeding disorders. Since the 2002 publication of the second edition, there has been an exponential increase in the number of medically fragile and complex children with swallowing/feeding disorders. A corresponding proliferation in the related basic and clinical research has resulted in the increased appreciation of the complicated inter-relationships between structures and systems that contribute to swallowing/feeding development, function, and disorders. Case studies throughout the book provide examples for decision making and highlight salient points.

• Maureen A. Lefton-Greif, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, is welcomed as co-editor. She brings extensive research expertise and clinical practice in pediatric dysphagia and feeding.
• All chapters contain significant updated evidence-based research and clinical information.
• New chapters focus on the genetic testing and conditions associated with swallowing and feeding disorders, and the pulmonary manifestations and management of aspiration.
• World Health Organization (WHO) description of an International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) sets the stage for an in-depth discussion of clinical feeding evaluation procedures, interpretation, and management decision making.

Pediatric Swallowing and Feeding continues to be the leading text on pediatric dysphagia that provides practical information for clinicians seeing children with swallowing and feeding disorders. The overall importance of an appropriate fund of knowledge and shared experience employing team approaches is emphasized throughout this third edition as in the earlier editions of this book.

From the Foreword

"The Editors have recognized the advances and changes in the understanding in the information now available for the care of pediatric swallowing and feeding challenges. They have recruited an outstanding group of contributors for this newest edition. There are numerous critically important updates and additions in the third edition. They have included World Health Organizations International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health is the functional basis in all areas of the book. This text has its importance as there has been an increased number of children with complex medical and healthcare conditions which are risk for feeding and swallowing disorders. This edition stresses the need for team approaches and also documents the use of “virtual” teams  ...Pediatric Swallowing and Feeding: Assessment and Management, Third Edition is the fundamental holistic source for all healthcare providers providing the care for swallowing and feeding in children. This book will be utilized by all caring for children with feeding and swallowing problems throughout the world. The previous editions have been and now this updated third edition continues to be the standard source for the information concerning diagnosis and care of these children."
—Robert J. Ruben, MD, FAAP, FACS
Distinguished University Professor
Departments of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Pediatrics
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx, New York

Reviews

"Named to Doody's Core Titles in the Health Sciences - Speech, Language & Hearing 2020 list."
—Doody's (May 2020)

Originally published in German and translated to English:
"The present book is a comprehensive standard work in its 3rd edition, which was published more than 25 years after the first edition. It is aimed at all professional groups dealing with paediatric dysphagia, eating/drinking and feeding disorders. The content is divided into 13 chapters [...] The chapters are supplemented by study sheets, templates for documentation and observation, and case studies. Of particular interest here is the approach as a "team evaluation" with a clear presentation from the different areas, whereby the team is composed differently depending on the case and inpatient and outpatient teams are also differentiated."
—Annette Münsterer, in Forum Logopädie (July 2020)

Joan C. Arvedson, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, is a speech-language pathologist, with Specialty in Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Disorders at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin. She is recognized internationally for her clinical work in pediatric swallowing and feeding disorders, lecturing/teaching, and scientific publications.

Linda Brodsky, MD (1952–2014), an internationally recognized pediatric otolaryngologist, was Chief of Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Children’s Hospital of Buffalo/Kaleida Health in Buffalo, New York; Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School; Director of the Children Hospital’s Center for Pediatric Otolaryngology and Communication Disorders.

Maureen A. Lefton-Greif, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, is Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. She is an internationally recognized speech-language pathologist for her clinical expertise and research on swallowing and its development and disorders in children of all ages.