AusACPDM Mealtimes Study Day

• Emotional/cultural issues around feeding ie – parents’ feelings around food intake, nurturing and their parenting role – what are the differences, how can these be taken into consideration in determining interventions?
• Limited research about interventions – need to be better described and researched
• Use CP Register across states to follow up children with dysphagia
• Overnight feeding – safety issues, what does it mean for families?
• Presence of primitive reflexes and oral feeding – more refined predictive information about the relationships between oro-motor abilities, dysphagia and longer term health/quality of life outcomes
• Rights of parents to make decisions about feeding which may impact (short or long term) on morbidity and mortality - interacts with the role of professionals to provide clear, evidence based and accessible information in a timely and sensitive way
• Qualitative research

Development and support for a list serve ie: dysphagia issues. Could be used to:

• Put up research questions
• Who is doing what?
• Have more and continuing forums