Feeding Your Child with Autism: A Family-Centered Guide to Meeting the Challenges

Feeding disorders challenge many children with autism, leading to tantrums, food aversions or refusal, or rituals. These behaviors are part of larger autism symptoms such as escape and avoidance tendencies, oral-motor deficits, and sensory issues. Left unchecked, they can threaten an individual's health and functioning, and overwhelm family life.

Feeding Your Child with Autism thoroughly discusses feeding disorders in children and explains the types of supports families can use at home…