Learning difficulties
Dietitians often lead or contribute to specialist feeding teams tackling rigid feeding choices, food phobias, dysphagia, long term enteral feeding and sensory feeding issues.[i],[ii]
Dietitians provide cost-effective care – working to minimise medical problems that can result in increased need for medical care for example in weight management, malnutrition, swallowing problems, enteral tube feeding and diabetes.17
[i] H. Crawley, Caroline Walker Trust., Eating well : children and adults with learning disabilities ; nutritional and practical guidelines. (The Caroline Walker Trust, Abbots Langley, Herts., 2007), pp. 159.
[ii] N. Qureshi, Trust a Dietitian to know about Nutrition (British Dietetic Association, Birmingham, UK, 2007).
