Feeding therapy

This resource covers therapy for picky eaters and support for extremely picky eaters. Let's go through how food therapy might look.

Snag this free printable picky eater food worksheet! It's one of our favorite feeding therapy tools because it solves so many problems with one simple chart. It's a great way to identify food aversions, get kids to try new foods, track your child's nutrition, and make meal planning so much easier.

HOW TO DO A FEEDING EVALUATION- The first step to a feeding assessment in occupational therapy is often a comprehensive Food Inventory Questionnaire. By understanding what a child is and is not eating helps the therapist to better understand food preferences in the way of textures, flavors, colors, tec. The food inventory is a great tool for consistent data collection.

Discover a list of the top feeding therapy spoons in this brief article from ARK Therapeutic. This list includes textured, flat, weighted, and vibrating spoons.

ARFID, Autism, & Eating Behaviors: You Are Not Alone — Autism Feeding Specialist

Bite-Size Chart / Feeding Therapy Handout in color with two pages that include land animals/pets and ocean animals! This chart is a helpful tool to decrease food-related anxiety and allow for a stress-free exploration of foods for your child/client. This handout can be used in feeding therapy or at ...

4 tips to make feeding therapy a success — Jenny Friedman Nutrition

How can the therapeutic technique of food chaining help your picky eater? Check out this guide from a feeding specialist!

What is food chaining? Get the answer and learn what ages it's best for and how to use this effective feeding therapy strategy to help any kid, especially picky eaters, learn to eat new foods.

Sensory food aversions, selective and picky eating from texture, flavor, smell, and appearance can be hard. Help kids overcome sensory issues with food with play, food activities, desensitization, and feeding therapy strategies from an occupational therapist. Food ideas for picky eaters, extreme picky eaters, kids with Autism, Sensory processing disorder (SPD), and neurodivergent;babies, toddlers, preschoolers, school aged kids, and even teens

Therapy Shoppe® has a wide selection of hard-to-find occupational therapy products for feeding, oral motor therapy, and oral defensiveness. Our inclusive line of feeding and oral motor sensory products includes: NUK brushes, chewy tubes, z-vibes, chewy pencil toppers, chewy fidgets, chewable jewelry, maroon spoons, occupational therapy spoons for feeding, flexi cut cups, fingertip tooth brushes, chewy dog tag necklaces, oral motor therapy resources, and lots of other unique sensory tools.

This SOS Approach to Feeding printable is a great resource for speech therapists, occupational therapists, and/or parents. It shows the hierarchy of introducing new foods to picky eaters! The hierarchy is as follows: Tolerate, Interact With, Smell, Touch, Taste, and Eat. I would love to resize any print for you to meet your needs. Once you purchase the print, send me a message with whatever size you need, and I’ll be more than happy to email that to you as soon as possible!

Feeding your baby is one of the most important aspects of child care. When it does not work as you expect or is a stressful event, it can be of great concern. We are here to help! Feeding skills in children actually start with sucking, then learning to eat solid foods and eventually drinking from […]

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Several of our therapy team recently attended an important workshop on the SOS approach to assessing and treating children with feeding difficulties and weight/growth problems. This program integrates posture, sensory, motor, behavioral/learning, medical, and nutritional factors to comprehensively evaluate and work with children with feeding/growth problems.. If you have concerns about your child's eating, please give us a call on 1-866-309-4610

Below, you will find a blog post on pediatric feeding therapy and answers to initial questions about feeding therapy such as “Are pediatric feeding issues related to sensory needs, oral motor problems or both?” and thoughts about where to begin with pediatric feeding therapy techniques. A question of sensory or oral motor concerns should be ... Read more

Here's what you need for your feeding therapy toolbox.

Do you need a feeding tool to help your little one eat easier and with more independence? With the right feeding tool, it can be a whole lot easier! As parents, we know how important it is to provide our children with the best tools to develop their oral skills. With that said, today’s featured post is written by pediatric speech-language pathologist, Hannah, who shares 5 essential feeding tools to make mealtime easier and less stressful for everyone involved. [read more]...