Coming April 9, 2010
What's In Your Lunch Box?
You're Invited!
Community Collaboration for Special Needs
We're Talking, Teaching, Tasting
And "Yes", We're Cooking!
Get More Cluck for your Buck!
And don't be chicken of nutrition with
fun, delicious, time-saving recipes that
your autistic child and entire family will love.
*Stay tuned for further details on the above upcoming event*
F.E.E.D. the Kids - Autism Spectrum Disorder Collaborative
Feed * Evaluate * Educate * Demonstrate
"More than McNuggets - Eating and ASD"
Overcome challenges of feeding your child with ASD and improve their health. Parents and leading Professionals work directly with your family to provide individual solutions and a "Personal Action Plan" for you and your child - including: nutritional training, adaptive physical activity, straight talk about special diets, how to expand what our kids eat and how to advocate for community and school-based support.
Contact Us for 'call-to-schedule' program options.
WIYLBOX developed F.E.E.D. the Kids as a team collaborative. The collaborative includes Doctors & Professionals from Sutter Memorial and Sutter Neuroscience Medical Group, Sacramento, USC UCEDD Children's Hospital Los Angeles and California State University Northridge's Marilyn Magaram Center for Food Science Nutrition and Dietetics, The Center of Achievement Through Adaptive Physical Activity, NutritionWise and Parents skilled in advocating for their children.
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Feed the Kids is a 'no-cost' community based nutrition education and training program designed to educate parents, caregivers and professionals about food and special diets for children with ASD. The Program's collaborating organizations will help participants identify and address the unique nutritional needs of their child and how nutrition affects behavior. Parents will learn about special diets and supplements and how they can work to improve the physical and behavioral health of ASD children at home. Parents will be guided on how to choose nutritious foods, learn by example with food demonstrations and tastes, learn how to cost-effectively plan culturally competent meals, substitute ingredients, shop on a budget and learn food preparation techniques from the Program’s activities.
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Evaluate impact of improved nutrition. In association with the professional staff and students from USC UCEDD Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, California State University Northridge Marilyn Magaram Center for Food Science Nutrition and Dietetics, families and community based organizations, WIYLBOX seeks to demonstrate the positive effects of early intervention of good and appropriate nutrition and the value of increased consumption of vegetables and fruit. Parents learn how to track the foods eaten and physical activities, and document their effects with anecdotal observances in the home.
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Educate the underserved community of parents and caregivers of special needs children. The Program's direct nutrition education series is developed and presented by professionals in developmental disabilities and nutrition who lead discussions on nutrition, sensory processing, behavioural management, adaptive exercise, gastrointestinal function and advocacy. The program provides an interdisciplinary approach to health and wellness that includes training and skill enhancement on how to implement and determine if a special diet and nutritional supplements are beneficial, gain increased knowledge about food replacement and meal creation. Parents also gain the tools needed to introduce, establish and maintain high quality nutritious food preferences, essential for the long term health and development of their children.
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Demonstrate the success of the F.E.E.D. the Kids program. The Program's success will initially be demonstrated by the increase learning of parents and caregivers and their ability to continue to support and improve the general health of their children at home; followed by duplication in schools and communities and inevitably resulting in policy changes that improve the health of all Special Needs Children and their families.