Promoting Children's Well-being

A1. Analyze the impact of secure relationships on children's well-being

A securely attached child learns that the parents are always there for comforting them while they are in distress. Developing a sense that is worthy of being consoled and loved is associated with kids. It helps them manage their feelings and behaviors to relate with others. The relationship develops helps in growing a child and managing relationships to create. Children’s learning is encouraged while they feel safe and secure in a setting where the child's needs are met and they work together to attend the behavioral competency (Ghosh et al. 2018). Family relations allow one to cope up with stress, self-esteem, and higher well-being. It is important to have a positive relationship since mental and physical health components should become more viable while children become adults. Good mental health allows children to think clearly and develop emotional intelligence in life. Self-confidence and high self-esteem encourage a healthy emotional outlook on life. Managing family relationships is important in terms of well-being since multiple conflicts arise within children to resolve problems in the future.

While kids are developing a secure attachment bond, they are identified to be:

Developing intimate relationships and maintaining emotional balance

Sharing feelings and seeking support from elders when in need (McCormick, 2017)

Rebounding from disappointment and loss is observed

Feeling confident about themselves while maintaining emotional balance is observed

The navigation of emotional barriers and identifying the stress within a child life

Children identified to be secure base in terms of exploring, learning, and relating

Adaptability and regulations are associated with seeking, play and care services that foster the growth of primary level kids.

In case a child does not have any secure attachment, then a risk of developing anxiety and internalizing problems. As commented by Lee et al. (2020), there are different findings are gained while children are put at great risk and meta-analysis gives suggestions on risking the security components. Development delays and difficulty in emotional regulation are producing long-term emotional problems in children. Post-traumatic stress disorder interrupts the bonded relationships while in distress. Within four weeks of birth, a baby learns to respond to the smile of its parents or any facial expression and movement. The legacy continues with time since the healthy development of a child will require complete focus on it from the parent's side. Some signs of attachment issues are bullying, hurting others, extreme level clinginess, and lack of eye contact. Lack of attention for caregivers and oppositional behaviorism is associated with it. Intense bursts of anger while failure to smile could be possible attachment disorders.

A child can find security and safety within the actions of setting boundaries and limitations and reconnecting by using a conflict. Owning up the mistakes and intake repair can maintain the child's safety components. Responding towards the emotional age of the child as well as finding elements that are predictable and initiate repair as a part of spreading positivity (McCormick, 2017). Loving, stable relationships are responsive and fundamental to a child's development. Expressing emotions and social skills are applied within the treatment of a child's mental attachment. While a child is given more than the required amount of attention, the child becomes uncontrollable and obsessed with parents. Hence, maintaining balance is important.

References

Journals

Ghosh, A.K., Badillo-Urquiola, K., Guha, S., LaViola Jr, J.J. and Wisniewski, P.J., 2018, April. Safety vs. surveillance: what children have to say about mobile apps for parental control. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-14).

Lee, D.L., Gurzo, K., Nhan, L., Vitale, E.H., Yoshida, S. and Ritchie, L.D., 2020. Nutrition provided to infants in licensed childcare centers and homes: a descriptive study. Maternal and child health journal, 24(7), pp.932-942.

McCormick, R., 2017. Does access to green space impact the mental well-being of children: A systematic review. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 37, pp.3-7.

A2. Analyze the role of the early year's practitioner in maintaining a healthy environment for children

Children these days come up with a broad range of responsibilities. Overfeeding or taking care of a child more than the required amount might cause children's health-related issues. Promotion of good health is possible by preventing potential chances of infection. A good level of hygiene is maintained due to childhood immunization. As explained by Pearce et al. (2019), supporting Children's health and wellbeing aims to illustrate the supportive practices of administration. As an early practitioner, the roles and responsibilities should be improved through encouraging learning and development. A playstyle teaching creates a secure environment to encourage children in learning new aspects of life. A safe and healthy environment in child care is administered by good nutrition and outdoor time. Observing children's progress and keeping records to share with parents, ensuring that any threat or concern is reported to the earliest possible time. Components of the educational philosophy of model in childhood learning are impacted by classroom atmosphere and design.

Teachers are identified to maintain social-emotional development components and academic safety. Organizations are trying to prevent harm for the children from any kind of threats. The staff is given training upon precautionary actions when necessary. Establishing and maintaining a community of students and admitting the unknown mistakes allows modeling kindness within a safe learning environment. As derived by Seward et al. (2018), "Provide support, advice, and guidance to any other staff on an ongoing basis, and on any specific safeguarding issue as required is associated within a planning of different needs for the children”.

The responsibilities of children are carried forward in terms of motivating the child to learn more and encouraging learning through experiences. Pastoral care and support to children within a secure learning environment are important to be managed. Observing, assessing, developing curiosity and knowledge is essential in terms of a child's progress management. Attending parent’s teachers meetings help in keeping updated with the changes and developing better practice. “Creating a secure environment, using imagination to help children to learn. Working with parents to support their children is part of this process (Spence et al. 2020)”. Potentially hazardous items need to be kept out of the reach of children. Keeping the food completely away from medicines and inspecting all equipment within child care helps in the development of good nutritional components of a child.

Feeding and supervising meals for babies keep up the foundation standards of child learning. Safeguarding the early practitioners might encourage children's learning and development through play. The practitioners need to focus on partnership work within energy savings, resourcefulness, and caring nature. Promotion of physical and emotional well-being practices allows gathering information on healthcare practices. Most likely practices are about healthcare goals of being fit and active. As commented by Van de Kolk et al. (2018), early year’s practitioner maintains work benefits within a component of children care support development and high-quality dietary functionalities setting. Working upon the childrens’ development along with parents to identify specific issues in schools and nurseries are important to the comprehensive health and safety standards. Creativity and adaptability allow an interpretation of information while marketing materials, publications, and reports.

References

Journals

Pearce, A., Dundas, R., Whitehead, M. and Taylor-Robinson, D., 2019. Pathways to inequalities in child health. Archives of disease in childhood, 104(10), pp.998-1003.

Seward, K., Wolfenden, L., Finch, M., Wiggers, J., Wyse, R., Jones, J. and Yoong, S.L., 2018. Improving the implementation of nutrition guidelines in childcare centres improves child dietary intake: findings of a randomised trial of an implementation intervention. Public health nutrition, 21(3), pp.607-617.

Spence, A., Love, P., Byrne, R., Wakem, A., Matwiejczyk, L., Devine, A., Golley, R. and Sambell, R., 2020. Childcare food provision recommendations vary across Australia: jurisdictional comparison and nutrition expert perspectives. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(18), p.6793.

Van de Kolk, I., Goossens, A.J., Gerards, S.M., Kremers, S.P., Manders, R.M. and Gubbels, J.S., 2018. Healthy nutrition and physical activity in childcare: Views from childcare managers, childcare workers and parents on influential factors. International journal of environmental research and public health, 15(12), p.2909.

A*1. Evaluate the benefits of working in partnership with parents/carers about children's health and well-being

Empathy and compassion qualify for a good carer who is empathetic and observant. Flexibility in the work environment while managing communications is important as a part of childhood education largely. Improving access and quality health care for the population is essential in terms of healthcare service improvement within families, communities, and primary healthcare practitioners. As described by Viani et al. (2020), delivering healthcare services to individuals for the promotion of health and supporting activities. While visiting the doctors there is differential emotional support provided and caring for infants and young children in care settings is managed. Effective professional staff members are enjoying their work while showcasing excellence in interactions that are planned.

A flexible approach within an organization is part of healthy dietary positioning and involves community outreach. Physical and mental health support is offered to most of the children and child-related workers. Daily self-care tasks are required to be managed while feeling safe and secure within a setting of meeting individual needs. Children’s learning development at home encourages early years of foundation stages. The benefits of working with children develop children's additional needs. Improved information sharing and effective risk identification. Joint decision-making on what is best for the child is coordinated as a part of assessing, managing, and reducing risks (Wood, 2018). Coordinated actions are taken into consideration for risk alignment and safeguarding. Partnership carers “allow all families to share information about their children's development or learning and support those children with particular needs to receive coordinated support".

Educator relationships are important since a positive connection between parents and teachers is improved for academic achievement, social competencies, and emotional well-being.

Work habits management, social and emotional well-being encouragement along effective communication managed the discrepancies within people. Building with families' componential analysis helps the carers bring about changes easily. As derived by McMeniman et al. (2011), the sharing of knowledge and experiences indulge in positive plans to the supportive activities of children. A strong parent-teacher relationship helps in developing routine work for the toddlers and creates supportive plans to encourage child behaviorism. The benefits of health and social care ensure that children and young people are safeguarded and the requests of staying healthy forever are maintained. Even in the case of a child, respect towards the child's dignity, privacy and safety is encouraged as competitively analyzed with empathy.

Health and social care are identified to be necessary so that a perfect blend of work and care is received. Remaining non-judgmental while being patient-centered enhances accountability and increased the feeling of support and efficiency. The four main working relationships in health and social care are categorized in four different ways as including colleagues and asking them regarding their child development story. The inclusion of healthcare supremacy continues to develop quality and safety of care aspects. The practitioners ensure to learn and practice new skills and ways of helping clients (Gidding et al. 2006). Counseling sessions were taken for child development also allow responding and increasing productivity in healthcare and social aspects. Effective supervision helps in increasing the effectiveness of employees and productivity. Two advantages of peer supervision are increased frequency and supervision of reciprocal learning.

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References

Journals

Gidding, S.S., Dennison, B.A., Birch, L.L., Daniels, S.R., Gilman, M.W., Lichtenstein, A.H., Rattay, K.T., Steinberger, J., Stettler, N. and Van Horn, L., 2006. Dietary recommendations for children and adolescents: a guide for practitioners. Pediatrics, 117(2), pp.544-559.

McMeniman, E., Moore, R., Yelland, M. and McClure, R., 2011. Childhood obesity: how do Australian general practitioners feel about managing this growing health problem?. Australian journal of primary health, 17(1), pp.60-65.

Viani, K., Albuquerque, L., Barr, R.D. and Ladas, E.J., 2020. Nutrition of children with cancer in Brazil: a systematic review. JCO global oncology, 6, pp.242-259.

Wood, L.C., 2018. Impact of punitive immigration policies, parent-child separation and child detention on the mental health and development of children. BMJ paediatrics open, 2(1).

B1. Explain the benefits of exercise for children's health and well-being

Regulating physical activity helps in the development of a child's fundamental movement skills. Physical literacy is identified to be increasing while a healthy body weight gain is encouraged. Physical activity helps in managing concentration, fitness and provides opportunities to socialize. Improvement of academic scores and building stronger hearts, bones, and muscles provide self-esteem incorporation within young people. According to Aadland et al. (2019), the benefits of exercise encourage brain function and stronger memory of children. Heart health is improved while reducing the chance of becoming ill with terminal diseases. Anxiety and depression are also highly observed within today's kids. Exercising helps children to lift the mood and manage physical intimacy. Building stronger bones and muscles act as a stimulus to the body while reducing the impact of osteoporosis on their later life. Benefits of exercise come up with increased confidence, peer acceptance, leadership skills, and empathy.

Regulating exercise among children helps in adjustment towards new surroundings

A reduction of the threat of being treated with diabetes and heart disease

Treating excessive fatigue and mental health has been identified as essential

Exercise is identified as a form of stress that improves concentration, memory, and classroom behavior (Owen et al. 2020)

A healthy and strengthening lungs is important for child growth and encouraging socializing components

A good physical foundation at a young age improves cardiorespiratory fitness

Physical improvement and digestion improvement helps in keeping the arteries and veins clear. The strengthening of the lungs and reduction of blood sugar levels controls weight gain. In most cases, it is observed that parents are concerned regarding their kid's weight gain. Some of the kids are becoming obese at an early stage. While the coordination system of weight management is kept into action there are leaner body types encouraged with fewer risks of becoming overweight for the children. Developing a healthy heart and lungs is important for associative combination and coordination of childhood development. Early exercise practices guide the children on the road map of interacting positively within the community (Van Pelt, 2017).

Kids these days find emotional turbulence to be unmanageable and a solid sense of well-being is something that leads towards long-term benefit management for kids. Heart disease prevention leads to the cause of death among Americans. Now, an early practice of swimming helps active heart goals to be established and improvised immunity systems. Kids are nowadays living in a confinement of home and they need to focus on exercise components within secure analysis of their rights of being well. In elementary level of children focusing on exercise encourages them to participate in variety of courses such as karate, running, skipping. According to Owen,et al. (2020), an improved workout routine for children develop the ability of multi functioning and improvises the digestive systems. Social development and a sense of wellbeing is associated within long-term benefits for children and their parents. The reduction of muscle cramps and pain can be observed for the maximization of healthy future. A healthy weight gain is possible through improving the self-confidence factors and better sleeping positions. The significant boost of brain power in early days of kids is also encouraged in this process.

References

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Aadland, K.N., Ommundsen, Y., Anderssen, S.A., Brønnick, K.S., Moe, V.F., Resaland, G.K., Skrede, T., Stavnsbo, M. and Aadland, E., 2019. Effects of the Active Smarter Kids (ASK) physical activity school-based intervention on executive functions: a cluster-randomized controlled trial. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 63(2), pp.214-228.

Brodal, L.B., 2019. Children´ s physical activity level in association with cardiorespiratory fitness and health: The Future Kids In Daily activity (FutureKID) cross-sectional pilot study (Master's thesis, NTNU).

Owen, K.B., Foley, B.C., Bauman, A., Bellew, B. and Reece, L.J., 2020. Parental awareness and engagement in the active kids program across socioeconomic groups. Journal of science and medicine in sport, 23(8), pp.753-757.

Van Pelt, J., 2017. Getting Kids Moving: A Schoolwide Approach: Column Editor: Anthony Parish. Strategies, 30(6), pp.45-47.

B2. Explain the impacts of poor diet on children’s health and well-being

A poor diet encourages the risk of heart disease and diabetes. The sleeping patterns, energy levels, and general health is impacted. A person's mood affects the types of food being chosen and the amount of food being eaten. It also helps with sleeping patterns, energy levels, and future health aspects. At the preliminary stage if a child is not given the adequate opportunity to grow then the lifestyle is affected and it affects digestive system function (East, 2020). The impact of poor diet encourages impaired growth, dental caries, and muscle cramps along with childhood obesity. Poor memory and cognitive skills manage tooth decay and high cholesterol. Poor nutrition affects heart health while provisioning for stroke. There are low fiber diets that cause constipation along with making children at a greater risk of developing bowel cancers and heart diseases. Children with poor diets gradually move forward to the iron deficiencies and in the long run, it provides energy to participate in physical activity and sleep management. The children are found out to be intaking calories within a balanced nature (Harris, and Kalnova, 2018). Unhealthy weight gain, total fat should not exceed the limited portions. Energy expenditure or insufficient diets are identified to have more impact on a kid's lifestyle. Children with poor dietary aspects often experience breathing problems such as asthma, early puberty, gallstones, and hip development problems. More entailed sugary and canned food are causing a deficiency in bones as a part of osteoporosis.

Caregivers have often observed that children with an immense intake of sugary or canned food often fall prey to the threats such as growing up unhealthy. Everyone needs similar types of vitamins, minerals, and carbohydrates. Different amounts of food quality and variations are made in terms of protein and fat intake. Poor nutritional value at an early age might eventually leave an impact upon people to be treated with cancer. As impacted by Gireesh, Das, and Viner (2018), the diet-related disease causes common health risks being developed in a society. Long-term health risks increase high cholesterol, high blood pressure at an early age. Overeating or a tendency to eat junk might become as fatal as death. Kids are more active eaters of pastries, cakes, pizza, chips, and grilled food. Guidelines for creating a healthy diet for children will include nutrient-dense food serving while switching to 100% real juices than the packed ones. Frozen vegetables and saturated fats along with trans fats should be avoided to their core. There are many children that often show their tantrums towards eating. Inadequacy in diet services becomes a threat for the children and guidelines for children within the age group 2 to 4 are as follows:

All the data explained here are based on the research activities of child nutrition. Following up each record indulges in secure growth components of kid with high level of nutrition intake and live a healthy live towards the future of the people (Hoffman, and Miller, 2020). A segment of children’ behavioral understanding is essential to overcome threats of falling ill in the long run.

References

Journals

East, C.N., 2020. The Effect of Food Stamps on Children’s Health Evidence from Immigrants’ Changing Eligibility. Journal of Human Resources, 55(2), pp.387-427.

Gireesh, A., Das, S. and Viner, R.M., 2018. Impact of health behaviours and deprivation on well-being in a national sample of English young people. BMJ paediatrics open, 2(1).

Harris, J.L. and Kalnova, S.S., 2018. Food and beverage TV advertising to young children: Measuring exposure and potential impact. Appetite, 123, pp.49-55.

Hoffman, J.A. and Miller, E.A., 2020. Addressing the consequences of school closure due to COVID‐19 on children's physical and mental well‐being. World medical & health policy, 12(3), pp.300-310.

B3. Evaluation of national and local initiatives which promote children’s health and well-being

Children’s emotional well-being development is closely linked with social and behavioral improvement at local and national levels. If a child is not emotionally stable and secure, they do not develop well and their actions leave a negative impact on the creativity of the young mind. While creating the hierarchy of behavior certain actions have been taken to encourage the learning competency of happy children. According to Catalano, Holloway, and Mpofu, (2018), emotional and social and behavioral growth is part of understanding the quality attributes of a young mind. As a part of safe and secure emotional well-being management, there should be enough research done on strengthening a child's future aspects. Health and well-being are promoted in general through outdoor activities such as exercise programs and gym memberships.

Some local and national level children health and well-being policies are found out as:

Encouraging fussy eaters to try new food and sitting with children to make them eat healthy food with family

Being a role model on practices of children eating habits in daily lives looking upon their parents have been impressive

Staying positive and patient with information processing of children can encourage a healthy living and healthy eating for child development component

Some identified initiatives that are promoting healthy eating habits this summer are found out to be the following such as:

Tesco-free fruit for kid:

As a part of kid health and wellbeing the initiative can be called out. Initial trial was done at Scotland and it recently launched free fruit for kids program across UK. The idea is to pick free fruit initiatives across the UK (Dev et al. 2020). The scheme encourages children to visit local Tesco store and their aim in life is to promote alternatives to sweets and other unhealthy snack.

Jamie Oliver-thriving families:

This particular people are associated with healthy eating initiatives for improving school dinners and managing the consumption of sugary drinks by school students. In UK, families are encouraged to take a closer look on how the food is processed and how children can be encouraged to cook with them. In a future blog post, it is observed that parents are gaining free resources under this program to become competent. What a child consumes and what not is highly described within this system. They are also submitting petition against over consumption of such items (Finch et al. 2019).

Get set to eat fresh:

Eating fresh is really important since there are kids that might fall prey of unhealthy eating habits. This initiative is evaluated in terms of getting better kitchen assistance for kids to learn the kitchen skills and eat fresh. Healthy meal planning gives a chance to provide the children adequate nutrition. This project is highly sustainable and effective hence. “Plus, there’s also the chance for school’s to win a visit from one of the Athlete Ambassadors too!”

Change4life:

This is identified as government launch program in 2009. It is trying to promote healthy eating with a slogan of “Eat Well, Move More, and Live Longer (Gelli et al. 2017)”. So far, there are 2.7 million followers and the initiative provide adequate information on child healthcare. “Through instilling good habits in terms of exercise and healthy eating in children from a young age, it’s hoped that these practices will be taken forward into adulthood too.”

References

Journals

Catalano, D., Holloway, L. and Mpofu, E., 2018. Mental health interventions for parent carers of children with autistic spectrum disorder: Practice guidelines from a critical interpretive synthesis (CIS) systematic review. International journal of environmental research and public health, 15(2), p.341.

Dev, D.A., Garcia, A.S., Dzewaltowski, D.A., Sisson, S., Franzen-Castle, L., Rida, Z., Williams, N.A., Hillburn, C., Dinkel, D., Srivastava, D. and Burger, C., 2020. Provider reported implementation of nutrition-related practices in childcare centers and family childcare homes in rural and urban Nebraska. Preventive medicine reports, 17, p.101021.

Finch, M., Seward, K., Wedesweiler, T., Stacey, F., Grady, A., Jones, J., Wolfenden, L. and Yoong, S.L., 2019. Challenges of increasing childcare center compliance with nutrition guidelines: a randomized controlled trial of an intervention providing training, written menu feedback, and printed resources. American Journal of Health Promotion, 33(3), pp.399-411.

Gelli, A., Margolies, A., Santacroce, M., Sproule, K., Theis, S., Roschnik, N., Twalibu, A., Chidalengwa, G., Cooper, A., Moorhead, T. and Gladstone, M., 2017. Improving child nutrition and development through community-based childcare centres in Malawi–The NEEP-IE study: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 18(1), pp.1-12.

C1. Explain the nutritional value of the main food groups

The five main food groups that are nutritional are associated with a balanced diet such as fruits and vegetables, protein components and dairy, and healthy fats. Providing a range of vitamins and minerals for effective functionality is important in the dietary inclusion of food groups. Whole grain and starchy vegetables, dairy and non-dairy alternatives, heart-healthy oils, fish poultry, and eggs. Elective and discretionary calories are part of these main food groups. The food pyramid is built upon the indulgence of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta (Jochems et al. 2018). Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, and minerals are part of primary food nutrition development for kids. "The key nutrients of the milk, yogurt, cheese, and alternatives food group include calcium and protein”.

Carbohydrates are supposed to be served to people to provide adequate energy, calcium, and B vitamins. The servings are associated with pasta, rice, oats, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, and noodles. One portion of food should consist of whole wheat crispbreads and mashed sweet potato with 3 times servings (Dziki, 2021). Tofu and fish fingers in quantity four are going to be served 2-3 times a day. Dairy servings are packed with calcium, protein, and vitamins which help in strengthening bones. Yogurt, a glass of milk, cheese, or low-fat custard with a 2-time serving can be a good option for dairy intake.

Fruit and vegetables are a bonus for dietary concepts and they are full of healthy vitamins, antioxidants, and fiber. Digestive systems are kept full and they are low in calories. As a wide variety of fruit and veggies, one portion would look like having an orange, apple, or smaller-sized fruit. Plums, kiwi fruit and grapes, and cherries or berries. As discussed by Headey, and Alderman, (2019), frozen and canned vegetables are served 5 times a day. 5 portions of fats and sugar are included in kid regular diets. Indulging in more than the required amount of sugary or canned food might be dangerous for the kids. It is advised for the kids to “keep foods such as butter, margarine, cooking oils and salad dressings to a minimum and save chocolate, crisps, sugary soft drinks, sweets, jam, cream, cakes, pudding, biscuits, and pastries for the occasional treat". Avoiding artificial sweeteners is another most important aspect for children since it is always best to avoid food with artificial sweeteners. Six main groups of essential micronutrients and macronutrients are found that provide the body adequate energy which is needed.

Promoting a kid's good health and reducing the threat of diseases is important since different flavors and textures exist within the food being offered to the kids. Everyday food groups provide a range of nutrients for helping in the body function. The food pyramid allows individuals to choose the flexibility of food and drinks depending upon their food preferences (Sharp et al. 2018). Food is identified as a portion that a person usually eats or drinks for saving up energy and staying alive. Some healthiest vegetables in this world are identified as Spinach, garlic, broccoli, kale, Brussels sprouts, green peas, and Swiss chard. As a part of a healthy childhood, it is important to promote overall health and prevent chronic diseases by having a good choice of food. The food choices are identified as important in order to achieve sustainability in healthcare domain. The food is also required to be digested as without digestion there is improving risks of fatal energy failure among kids. The kids needs to be taken care of with utmost priority levels and there should not be any forceful activity done while feeding them. Kids are precious and different children need different types of care while they are served with food.

References

Journals

Dziki, D., 2021. Current Trends in Enrichment of Wheat Pasta: Quality, Nutritional Value and Antioxidant Properties. Processes, 9(8), p.1280.

Headey, D.D. and Alderman, H.H., 2019. The relative caloric prices of healthy and unhealthy foods differ systematically across income levels and continents. The Journal of nutrition, 149(11), pp.2020-2033.

Jochems, S.H., Van Osch, F.H., Bryan, R.T., Wesselius, A., van Schooten, F.J., Cheng, K.K. and Zeegers, M.P., 2018. Impact of dietary patterns and the main food groups on mortality and recurrence in cancer survivors: a systematic review of current epidemiological literature. BMJ open, 8(2), p.e014530.

Sharp, W.G., Postorino, V., McCracken, C.E., Berry, R.C., Criado, K.K., Burrell, T.L. and Scahill, L., 2018. Dietary intake, nutrient status, and growth parameters in children with autism spectrum disorder and severe food selectivity: an electronic medical record review. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 118(10), pp.1943-1950.