Welcome to “All About ARFID”
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Hello and welcome!
I am Michael Hann, your community host and Consultant Paediatric Dietitian, here on “All About ARFID.” You can learn a bit more about me on this post over here.
Thank you for joining us. I look forward to the conversations ahead with you all.
Michael
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Get an early opportunity to register for All About ARFID - LEARNING LABS (group telehealth webinars, step-by-step problem-solving workshops for parents). These Learning Labs are paid events, but they international and demand is high. They fill fast, so early access as a verfied email subscriber gives you an advantage.
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As a parent who is a Pathfinder (paid subscriber), you are committed to discovering, testing and refining new pathways that solve tough problems for your child and teen. This requires more advanced learning and collaboration with parents and clinicians who have decades more experience and expertise than you have currently acquired.
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(2.1) All Newsletter Articles
Get access to all articles published via newsletter and online, including any audio versions that are also published. You will have access to it all, including all articles in the archive.
(2.2) Live Q&A Video
Get access to Live Q&A Video sessions that I host each month around key issues/problems that are hot topics for parents in this community. Post your questions and get involved in these conversations. These Live Q&A Video Sessions are where plenty of practical insights emerge.
(2.3) Replay Library
Full access to the archive of Live Q&A Video sessions, Substack Lives and any additional Audio Notes that I create along the way.
(2.4) Premium Podcast Episodes
Full access to premium paid podcast episodes, which will provide much deeper dives into ARFID and nutrition, navigating complex medical issues with your child’s medical team, and practical strategies for nutrition rescue.
(2.5) Group Chat App
Get involved in a private hub on the Chat App (web and phone) where I post weekly prompts and reflections. It is a place of ongoing conversation with me and with one another — part coaching, part storytelling, part peer support for each other.
The Group Chat App means accessing discussions on hot topics, a place to ask your questions, gain valuable insights from how other parents have solved particular problems, and a safe forum to find friends and learning buddies who will travel with you on the same long parenting journey of ARFID through the crucial developmental years of childhood and adolescence.
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Wanting More…?
Learning Labs. Not a typical webinar, not a consult. What are they?
Learning Labs are live group consults working with myself as a Consultant Paediatric Dietitian. Learning Labs give you direct access to a leading clinical expert via webinar-based, rapid problem-solving workshops, which are specifically designed for parents of children living with severe ARFID that is associated with Autism or complex neurodevelopment disorders. To keep them focused, relevant, practical and high-value, each Learning Lab is organised around a specific clinical, nutrition, or feeding problem.
These are intensive group coaching sessions that support groups of individual parents to work through specific nutrition problems. The Learning Labs are typically 2-3hours; think ‘group telehealth consult’, focused problem-solving, intensive group learning, designed for working through a particular issue to create personalised practical solutions that are customised by you for your child’s complex mix of needs.
Learn more here. Click on the link below.
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Orientation: Get Started Here
If you’re new to the Nutrition Rescue newsletter and community, then here are some articles to get you started.
I suggest you read these first four articles (in listed order) for general orientation to the newsletter and community. It’s a great place to get started. They are accessible to everyone (with or without a subscription).
For Your Child’s Doctors (and everybody else)
Next, I suggest you read these three articles as essential primers on ARFID in Autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
These three articles are written to also share with your child’s paediatrician, paediatric gastroenterologist (if they have one) and allied health team. They will also provide excellent background for grandparents, kindergartens, schools and others who might be supporting you and your child.
These three articles are designed to be read in the listed order (they are a mini-series).
ARFID in Autism: An overlooked feeding disorder and hidden health crisis
The Outcomes of Untreated ARFID in Autism: Impact on Nutrition, Health & Psychiatry
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