Asking adults with swallowing difficulties about ‘mealtime-related quality of life’: What does a good meal look like for you?
My name is Rebecca Smith. I am a speech pathologist and PhD candidate at UTS working with Professor Bronwyn Hemsley and Dr Lucy Bryant. I am examining swallowing difficulty and how it may impact on a person’s quality of life, participation, and inclusion. I am now putting the call out to people with swallowing difficulties…
What’s written in the peer-reviewed literature, about 3D food printing, that mentions swallowing disorders?
Any mention of swallowing disorders in 3D food printing literature was picked up in our systematic searches – we only sought peer reviewed publications that were full journal articles; the following references are based on a search of scientific databases up to June 2016. The search was updated for the publication of this journal article,…
An Appetite for the Future: 3D Printed Food for People with Swallowing Disability
This project aims to identify ways that 3D food printing (additive manufacturing using real food in a device like a ink-jet printer) could be used to improve the visual appeal of puree meals for people with swallowing difficulty, who make up ~8% of the world’s population. This study will include people with and without swallowing…
Taco Tuesday with #c3dprintio
This week, it was trying out the avocado, which, on the scale of things, was quite the proverbial success. Even more so when you consider the first effort at the printable taco… We probably need more tortilla next time, right?
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