PURPOSE: to check interfering aspects in the feeding standard of children from 17 to 25 months. METHODS: data of speech language pathology evaluation related to 14 children that attended a day-care center in the city of Bauru/SP. A questionnaire was applied in order to get information about general health conditions and neuromotor development, natural or artificial feeding, oral habits and breathing problems. The analysis was made under the following aspects: morpho-functionality of the physician-physiological characteristic constituting the stomatognathic system and chew and deglutition. The results were submitted to a Descriptive Statistical Analysis. RESULTS: alteration in diverse aspects of the health and the development in children (92.8%) was ascertained; and also malocclusion (28.6%), morphological alterations for lips (21.4%) and tongue (21.4%); tonicity alterations of cheeks (57.1%), mento (21.4%) and lips (42.8%); oral or oronasal breathing (42.8%); dysfunction in chewing (35.7%) and in swallow solid (50%) and liquid (42.8) foods. CONCLUSION: for this group it was observed that the oral habits, morphological and tonicity alterations influence the standard of feeding for the analyzed children, evidencing the need to prevent and detect such factors precociously so that the feeding in the children may occur in an adequate form, thus promoting conditions towards healthful development.
Feeding Behavior; Child; Child Development; Health Promotion
