Easily identify risk of swallowing difficulties in your child
Current Behavior
Swallowing problems
Consequences
This tool is based on PEDI EAT-10* and consists of 10 questions to help assess potential swallowing problems of your child. Answer each question by thinking back over a typical one-month period and select the number that best describes your child.
0 means no problem, 4 means severe problem.
0
Not a problem
1
2
3
4
Severe problem
Every question investigates a potential problem, however it doesn't mean that every child has that problem. If your child does not have the mentioned problem, please choose “0” which means < my child does not have this problem >. If your child encounters that problem, please rate the severity of that problem between 1 and 4.
This tool is not a medical assessment and does not replace your healthcare professional's evaluation. This tool respects data privacy and confidentiality policies. Developed in collaboration with Numan Demir and Selen Serel Arslan.
The wording of questions 1,2,3,4,5,6,10 has been adapted to facilitate understanding. In clinical research, the original PEDI-EAT-10 questions should be used*
*References
Serel Arslan S, Demir N, et al. The Pediatric Version of the Eating Assessment Tool: a caregiver administered dyphagia-specific outcome instrument for children. Disabil Rehabil. 2018;40(17):2088-2092.
Serel Arslan S, Kılınç HE, Yaşaroğlu ÖF, Demir N, et al. The pediatric version of the eating assessment tool-10 has discriminant ability to detect aspiration in children with neurological impairments. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2018;30(11):e13432.
