TY - JOUR
T1 - Food preferences and factors influencing food selectivity for children with autism spectrum disorders
AU - Schreck, Kimberly A.
AU - Williams, Keith
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was partially funded from a grant to K.A. Schreck and K. Williams from the Pennsylvania State University Research Council. Thanks are given to the many families, support groups, and schools that participated in our study. Special thanks are given to the Eden School and the South Eastern school district for their cooperation with distributing questionnaires to the families of their students and to H.M. Hendy and Jill Querry for their consultation on the project.
PY - 2006/7
Y1 - 2006/7
N2 - Although clinicians and parents widely accept that children with autism spectrum disorder exhibit more feeding problems than their typically developing peers, little information is available concerning the characteristic food items accepted by these children or the possible factors contributing to these feeding problems. This article used an informant-based questionnaire to survey parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (N = 138) to determine: (a) the types of feeding problems their children typically exhibit, (b) the food items their children prefer, (c) the relationship of feeding problems to family eating preferences, and (d) the relationship of the diagnostic characteristics of autism to feeding behavior. Results indicated that the children preferred fewer types of food items within groups than their families; however, family food preferences appeared to influence food selection more than the diagnostic characteristics of autism.
AB - Although clinicians and parents widely accept that children with autism spectrum disorder exhibit more feeding problems than their typically developing peers, little information is available concerning the characteristic food items accepted by these children or the possible factors contributing to these feeding problems. This article used an informant-based questionnaire to survey parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (N = 138) to determine: (a) the types of feeding problems their children typically exhibit, (b) the food items their children prefer, (c) the relationship of feeding problems to family eating preferences, and (d) the relationship of the diagnostic characteristics of autism to feeding behavior. Results indicated that the children preferred fewer types of food items within groups than their families; however, family food preferences appeared to influence food selection more than the diagnostic characteristics of autism.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ridd.2005.03.005
DO - 10.1016/j.ridd.2005.03.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 16043324
AN - SCOPUS:33745883577
SN - 0891-4222
VL - 27
SP - 353
EP - 363
JO - Research in Developmental Disabilities
JF - Research in Developmental Disabilities
IS - 4
ER -