Child Care of people with special needs

Child Care of people with special needs

When the child begins to eat alone surrounded by a mother with a list of caveats and restrictions for fear of contaminating his clothes or where you eat.

What if this child with special needs? Is it wise to remain his mother feed him no matter how big and regardless of the degree of disability? And how to develop parent skills of self-reliance in her eating plagued?

How can we teach children (disabled) who suffers from eating himself?

In fact, of the factors that help a special needs to cope with psychological conditions and designated to the lack of a sense of inferiority from his peers let him eat alone with the provision of the means for protection from the risk of spill food on his clothes or not framed by constipation tableware.


D. Abdul Rahman Sweden - an expert in the field of disability

- Sets you how to develop the skill of self-reliance in the eating when your child with special needs says:
Cut the bread into small bites and put them on a plate in front of a child with gradually increasing quantity.
Start mashed foods easy chewing and in which there is no amount of fluids and many gradual thickening of the food and its liquidity.

Example: Beginning mashed potatoes with milk, eggs, soup, mashed vegetables, liver Almfire tehena and garlic and then boiled potatoes well, vegetables in a thick sauce potato dumpling ... So on.
Expect leak food from both sides of the mouth and try to accustom your child not to put a large amount of food in his mouth at once.
If you pay child food with his tongue out of his mouth, Vdaa finger over the upper lip and the other under the lower lip, and Adfieha up to close the mouth child and accustomed to chewing not Tanfah if Remove the food from his mouth for him not to happen decline in ready-to-eat alone.
In the case of a weakness or deformity in the arm or fingers to use the tools at unbreakable and lightweight at the same time.
Make dishes elevated aspects so as not to spill food and spoons broad hands are easy to use and can be installed rubber handle on a spoon or fork.
Covers the surface of the table ABS anti Bmfirh or clarify this bedspread directly below the food dish.
Asenda child elbow to the edge of the table so that enough small movement of his hands to push the food into his mouth.
Put food in the level of the child to easily reach out to him even if it required raising the dish above the base or holder.
Use for drinking cups and cover the small hole to leak water or juice or a cup handles to make it easier to catch him.
Make the session your child comfortable and safe so as not to fall or to fall back, if he was sitting on the ground is achieved in the high seats sidewalls or closed with the exception of a place out the legs, such as: infant seats prior to the walking stage.
Give your child encouragement and support embracing love whenever succeeded in eating his food alone and بمكافأته whenever achieved a breakthrough in this even تعززي this achievement and embrace it.