Food chaining has been developed as a systematic method for the treatment
of children with extreme food selectivity. Food chaining is an individualized,
nonthreatening, home-based feeding program designed to expand food repertoire
by emphasizing similar features between accepted and targeted food items. This
chart review illustrates the efficacy of food chaining in treating aversive
feeding disorders.
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