Resources
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Featured Resources
Identifying Feeding Difficulties in Infants
Guidelines for healthcare professionals
Learn which infants are at risk for feeding difficulties, what signs they might show, and guidelines for evaluation.
Screening Children for Feeding Difficulties
Guidelines for healthcare professionals
Answers questions such as: which children are at risk for feeding difficulties? Who can perform mealtime screenings?
Positioning for Mealtime
A quick reference for professionals and caregivers
Six body parts are key to stable, upright positioning. This reference highlights what to focus on for each of them to encourage safe and efficient mealtimes.
Strategies to Address Positioning Challenges
A reference for parents and other caregivers
Children can struggle to achieve a safe, upright position while eating. Learn what constitutes an upright position.
Advocacy Resources
Improving nutrition and feeding for children with disabilities and children without family care
Advocacy brief
This brief provides an overview of nutrition and feeding for vulnerable children, including solutions and calls to action.
Links between nutrition and COVID-19 for vulnerable children
Advocacy brief
This brief explains how the COVID-19 pandemic is linked to new risks in nutrition and feeding for vulnerable children.
Prioritizing nutrition and feeding in alternative care
Publication
This publication introduces key components of nutrition and feeding for alternative care programs, with recommendations for implementation.
Count Me In promotes nutrition and safe feeding for children with disabilities
Conference presentation slides
This presentation shares how SPOON’s digital health app Count Me In can address nutrition and feeding needs of children with disabilities through training, decision support, and monitoring.
SPOON’s COVID-19 Guidelines for Residential Institutions
Guidance document
This guidance recommends key practices for residential care settings in the context of COVID-19.
Early inclusion in nutrition
Advocacy brief
This brief describes strategies to ensure children with disabilities receive equitable access to essential nutrition services and support.
Research Resources
Digital technology to promote inclusion and quality care for children with disabilities
Article
This article in UNSCN NUTRITION explores the role and potential of digital technologies to promote inclusive nutrition programs.
Health Impact Assessment of COVID-19 on Families with Children with Disabilities Living in Three Communities in Lusaka
Report
This assessment explores the perceived effects of COVID-19 and the containment measures implemented in Zambia on children with disabilities and their families living in resource-poor communities.
Households with Children with Disabilities in Zambia Face Hardships on Food Access and Dietary Diversity
Report
This assessment examines the impact of COVID-19 on dietary diversity and nutritional quality for households caring for children with disabilities in low-resource communities in Lusaka, Zambia.
Household Dietary Diversity among Households with and without Children with Disabilities in Three Low-Income Communities in Lusaka, Zambia
Article
This article describes dietary diversity in Lusaka, Zambia between households with and without a child with a disability living in the same communities.
Supporting children with feeding difficulties and disabilities
Webinar
SPOON presented on a webinar hosted by USAID Advancing Nutrition sharing resources to address feeding difficulties in nutrition programs.
The nutritional and feeding status of children living in selected residential child care facilities in Zambia: implications for programs and policies
Article
This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of undernutrition and risk of feeding difficulties and describe common feeding practices for children from birth to 10 years of age living in residential care in Zambia. Coauthored by SPOON staff and board members.
