Switching to a skin level device or button. Once your child's gastrostomy site is well-healed and the tract is developed it is possible to switch to a skin level feeding device. There are several types of buttons. The most common are the Button made by Bard and the MIC-Key made by Medical Innovations Corporation.
The term metacognition literally means cognition about cognition, or more informally, thinking about thinking. Flavell defined metacognition as knowledge about cognition and control of cognition. For example, I am engaging in metacognition if I notice that I am having more trouble learning A than B; [or] if it strikes me that I should double check C before accepting it as fact. J. H. Flavell (1976, p. 232).
Critical thinking...the awakening of the intellect to the study of itself. Critical thinking is a rich concept that has been developing throughout the past 2500 years. The term critical thinking has its roots in the mid-late 20th century. We offer here overlapping definitions, together which form a substantive, transdisciplinary conception of critical thinking.