[P2-6] The support for autistic child’s picky eating habits using our original checklist
Some children with Autism have picky eating habits. We reported about the improvement of this through 3 types of special lunchtime diets and nutritional consulting. (Type1: by changing food into favorite textures, tastes, and colors. Type2: by cutting food into favorite shapes, and recipes. Type3: by offering their favorite food while encouraging inexperienced food.）For discovering the types of individual characteristics we usually evaluate a food record at home and at our child developmental support center (lunch time), child favorite food, weight and height, nutritional assessment, and developmental assessment. These days we use original checklist made by nutritionist Y. Fujii. She picked up a lot of problems or tendencies of the children, made a questionnaire, and asked 89 parents to fill it out. We picked out some items related the tendencies of the group. The question items were checked more than 50% in each group. Also we added the seven question items that we thought were relevant. After that we examined the relations between the checklist and the support type. We concluded that the checklist would be a good screening method to determine the types early on. This time we used the checklist for nutritional counselling of 8 outpatients with Autism spectrum disorder and picky eating. We would like to report the support type, developmental character, and usefulness of the checklist.