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Eating and Drinking Ability Classification System (EDACS) and Mini EDACS
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Purpose
Eating and Drinking Ability Classification System (EDACS) and Mini EDACS
Assesment Type
Patient Group
Cerebral Palsy
Age Group
Infants (0-2 years) | Children (3-12 years) | Adolescents (13-17 years)
ICF domain
Activity & Participation
Area of assessment
Activities of Daily Living
Key description
Description
Not an assessment or outcome measure but a useful description. 5 levels of safety/efficiency of eating & drinking
Reliability / validity
Not applicable.
Agreement between SLT and parents is 90- 100%
Mini EDACS inter rater reliability 0.63–0.87
Strengths / weaknesses
None noted
Usually completed by speech and language therapist but can be used by other professionals
Cost
Free
Equipment required
None
Training required
Experience.
Considerations & references
References/ Links
Sellers, D., Pennington, L., Bryant, L., Benfer, K., Weir, K., & Morris, C. (2019). Mini-EDACS: Eating and Drinking Ability Classification System for young children with cerebral palsy. 55. Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Childhood Disability (EACD) , Paris, France.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698749/2019/61/S2
Mini EDACS:
Time to complete
Average mealtime
Comments
English, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
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