[Psychomotor education and speech therapy when weaning a child off artificial feeding]

Abstract

To support children and their families with weaning off artificial nutrition, a psychomotor therapist and speech therapist from the 'Pierre Robin syndrome and congenital sucking-swallowing disorders' specialist rare disease centre at Necker-Enfant Malades hospital in Paris, have set up a joint consultation, as a complement to medical consultations. This programme shows how speech therapy and psychomotor education can complement each other in order to help children and their parents during this difficult period.

Keywords: artificial feeding; cross-disciplinarity; nutrition artificielle; oral health; oralité; orthophonie; psychomotricity; psychomotricité; sevrage; speech therapy; transdisciplinarité; weaning.