Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 14-19 , January 2005

Food choices of tactile defensive children

Received 23 September 2003 ,Accepted 28 July 2004.

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 This study was supported by a 2000 Purity Research Award, the South African Institute for Sensory Integration, Fresenius Kabi, South Africa.

PII: S0899-9007(04)00216-3

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2004.09.004

Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 14-19 , January 2005