A Hospital- and Home-Based Behavioral Intervention for a Child with Chronic Food Refusal and Gastrostomy Tube Dependence

Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 407-418

  Farrell, Debra A ^a   Hagopian, Louis P ^a   Kurtz, Patricia F ^a  

^a KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral intervention; Children; Food refusal; Gastrostomy tube dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035619531     PISSN: 1056263X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012241630667     Document Type: Article

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