Easier meals for autistic kids

FOR parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), meal times can be challenging and stressful. Studies have shown that children with ASD can have a wide spectrum of feeding problems, including food selectivity, food sensitivity, problematic meal time behaviour and eating non-food items such as paper or clay.

But a Malaysian PhD student in the United Kingdom (UK) is developing a tool kit to help professionals identify and deal with the problems before they become entrenched habits.