http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:3985 This paper explores the identffication of a pilot sample of Australian failure to thrive (FTT) infants in a New South Wales community setting. It examines problems of infant recruitment to date and describes the subsequent shift in research focus since the onset of the proiect in 2000. Part II of the paper presents a clinical profile of failure to thrive in an Australian infant of 8 months. 2010-04-27T04:54:56.848Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:5975 Although dysphagia competency with clients of all ages is a professional requirement for speech pathologists working in Australia (see the Competency-Based Occupational Standards, Speech Pathology Australia, 2001), undergraduate speech pathology students have overall less clinical and theoretical exposure to paediatric dysphagia than adult dysphagia. Except for Jakobs (2004) and Mathisen (2003, 2004), no researchers have explored the extent to which the speech pathology profession is equipped to meet the increasing demand for service provision in paediatric dysphagia across the Australian health sector. This paper highlights the need for tertiary institutions to increase clinical and theoretical training in paediatric dysphagia at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. 2010-04-27T04:42:23.445Z ]]>