Error/Old: Redistribution with Regular Texture Food for Clinical Cases In-Home

Abstract

Research has shown effectiveness of a redistribution procedure for decreasing packing and increasing swallowing. Redistribution has been done using lower manipulated-texture foods on an infant gum brush in specialised United States hospitals. We extended this by using regular texture bites of food in a short-term (1-2 weeks) home-based programme in Australia, showing decreased then absent use of the procedure, and following up. Two children with autism spectrum disorder participated. We used a withdrawal/reversal design. Latency to swallow decreased. Participants increased variety to 90 and 122 regular texture foods across food groups. All goals were met including increasing independence in self-feeding. Both parents were trained. Gains maintained to 6 months and redistribution was no longer needed.

Machine Learning to Support Visual Inspection of Data: A Clinical Application

“…Importantly, training to analyse single-case graphs should go beyond using a simple online tool and focus on how the interaction between different dimensions of the data (i.e., level, trend, variability, overlap, immediacy) influences analysis. This clinical case history report also adds to the literature by presenting a replication of Taylor's (2020, September 25) effective use of redistribution with regular bites of food and extend it by following up at 1-year postdischarge. To our knowledge, this redistribution procedure with regular texture food has only been presented once thus far.…”

“…This clinical case history report also adds to the literature by presenting a replication of Taylor's (2021) effective use of redistribution with regular bites of food and extend it by following up at 1-year postdischarge. To our knowledge, this redistribution procedure with regular texture food has only been presented once thus far.…”

“…Treatment conditions. Treatment conditions were conducted similar to those described by Taylor (2020Taylor ( , 2021.…”

“…If the bite was masticated (i.e., chewed up; Volkert et al, 2014) or lower texture, the feeder used the infant gum brush to scoop it up from the mouth. If the bite was not masticated, we removed the bite from the mouth using a rubber coated tip infant spoon and then mashed the bite prior to redistribution (Taylor, 2020, September 25). For mashable textures such as avocado, banana, potato, pumpkin, and ripe strawberry, we mashed the food directly onto the infant gum brush manually with gloved hands.…”

Social validity of pediatric feeding treatment components across time

“…Overall, strengthening research in the area of treatment acceptability for pediatric feeding procedures will serve to improve efforts to accurately disseminate our science to consumers, to other disciplines, and those responsible for policy change, particularly in international countries (Taylor & Taylor, 2021a, 2021b. Dissemination is also important within the field to behavior-analytic practitioners, to further communicate the acceptability and effectiveness of certain procedures.…”