Feeding Therapy

Feeding therapy provides skilled services to children with difficulties eating. These may include problems sucking, chewing, or swallowing age-appropriate food safely and easily.

Feeding disorders may also include difficulties in a child’s relationship to food. A resistant eater may limit intake enough to result in illness, malnutrition, or poor growth.

Pediatric feeding therapists work with children to improve:
o Sensory aversion to foods.
o Oral motor delay/weakness/coordination.
o Behavioral issues involving food.
o Enable independence.
o Increase the ability to participate in meal time activities at home, school, and in the community.
o Encourage and strengthen family routines and culture that affect feeding.
o Decrease anxiety around foods.