Babies and young children with neurodevelopmental disorders, or children who are diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental disorder when they are older, often experience eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties (EDSD) in the first year of their life. Please see the resources below to help support your practice when working with babies, children and families identified with EDSD.

iHV Resources

📃 Good Practice Points and Parent Tips

Developed in collaboration with topic experts, health visitors, and other professionals, our resources draw on the latest available evidence at the time of publication. Each resource is produced through a robust quality assurance process and peer reviewed to ensure accuracy, relevance, and strong alignment with health visiting practice. 

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Babies and very young children with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties

Good Practice Point

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Supporting the feeding of babies and children under 18 months with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties

Parent Tip

📖 iHV LEARN Programmes (included in membership):

We offer a range of e-learning and toolkits to support your practice via our learning platform iHV LEARN. Additional resources are available within courses for those who have completed the corresponding training programme.

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Healthy Weight, Healthy Nutrition (HWHN) Toolkit

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iHV Motor Development Toolkit

📖 iHV Training Opportunities

Our wide range of award-winning and popular training programmes are designed for practitioners across all levels of health visiting and the wider multidisciplinary team.

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Healthy Weight, Healthy Nutrition

🏷️ Cost: From £265

🕒 Duration: 1 Day

👥 Suitable for: Health Visitors (inc. Specialist Health Visitors), Skill Mix and Multi-agency