Children with autism may benefit from screening for feeding problems and treatment of any problems that exist.

Children with autism often have feeding problems and these feeding problems can be severe. While feeding problems may be severe, few therapists look closely at and work on feeding problems. This review article describes the current state of the field with respect to feeding problems in children with autism. The authors suggest that all children with autism be screened for feeding problems. Behavior based interventions such as applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy may be helpful in treating feeding problems.