Increasingly, since the mid-1990s, feeding and swallowing disorders in children have been
recognized independently from dysphagia in the adult population. This change is long …

Dysphagia affects a multitude of people worldwide with tremendous impact on the affected
individual, families, and caregivers. Understanding dysphagia, as well as the status of …

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) have fulfilled primary roles in the evaluation and
management of children with feeding/swallowing disorders for more than five decades. The …

Dysphagia in pediatric populations can result in multiple adverse health outcomes.
Therefore, childhood swallowing difficulties must be diagnosed accurately and managed …

Among the disorders precipitated by diseases accompanying aging, perhaps that with the
most impact on quality of life is dysphagia. This is particularly true in patients who have …

Feeding and swallowing in children is a dynamic, complex process impacted by anatomic,
physiologic, and neurologic development. A disruption in any of these realms can lead to a …

Pediatric dysphagia is specific because of the different developmental stages from the
neonatal period to the infancy. Diagnosis and treatment will be different if it concerns a …

Infancy and childhood represent a time of unparalleled physical growth and cognitive
development. In order for infants and children to reach their linear and neurological growth …

The objective of this study was to determine temporal trends of dysphagia diagnoses in
hospitalized children. This is a retrospective observational study from the 1997–2012 Kids' …

Oropharyngeal dysphagia (hereafter to be called dysphagia) is defined as difficulty
swallowing resulting from abnormalities of structure or movement of the oral cavity,(including …