Jul 19, 2025 | Publications
A nine-year-old, healthy boy – suddenly stopped swallowing even his own saliva, which caused a huge regression in his life. He was no longer speaking or using his hands, stopped participating in activities, was back in nappies, out of school, and not sleeping.
The moment when he finally swallowed some saliva, we were all crying and couldn’t believe it. His mum was jumping up and down, hugging him and celebrating. The process took 7 weeks but he finally got off his NG tube, gained weight, and reached a variety of 94 foods across food groups.
Jun 15, 2025 | Publications, Resources
For ARFID, there is a need for education and training of healthcare professionals and IDT collaboration. Established treatments like behaviour analysis should be considered.
Jul 15, 2024 | Featured, Publications, Resources, Reviews, Social Validity
“Collectively, caregivers rated behaviour-analytic treatments high in social validity and treatments were highly effective. Caregivers reported increased broader quality of life and lasting positive impacts, decreased stress, and lack of negative effects.”
“Accurate dissemination is needed to increase earlier access to effective feeding treatment for families and specialised training for professionals to promote data-based and individualised decision-making in this vital area.”
Jun 15, 2024 | Publications, Featured, Social Validity
11 skills in just 2 weeks! Took tedious hard work, but he eventually was a little chopstick expert, even with small vitamins. Another one of my favourite/tippie-top treatment arrangements, plus important novel cultural caregiver perspectives shared including on social validity.
May 16, 2024 | Publications, Social Validity
Low percentages of children have negative reactions to exposure, these reactions are brief, positive results are quick, and parents receiving proper support rate treatment highly positively.
“Given the majority of the patients had ng or g-tube dependence and nearly half met failure-to-thrive, these robust outcomes are quite promising for those with pediatric feeding disorders.”
May 14, 2024 | Publications, Featured, Resources, Social Validity
On multimodal social validity assessment (including direct objective recipient measures) with heaps of practical implications, and one of my most preferred/tippie top/fun treatment arrangements and data collection keys to add (h = happy) ever. Variety record 224 🥇
