FEEDING THERAPY

BLUEBONNET PEDIATRIC FEEDING THERAPY

Feeding Therapy

Bluebonnet Pediatric Therapy feeding therapy will always involve play-based interaction with food to make mealtime fun and not stressful. We use the SOS approach to feeding to engage children in food explorations.  We may play or build with foods and get to know the food more by using our 5 senses! Family member participation is crucial to the success of therapy and emphasis will be placed on family/parent education.

Feeding therapy can help address the following areas:

• Gagging, coughing, choking, vomiting, congestion (noisy, gurgling) during feeding
• Difficulty transitioning from breast to bottle, baby foods, solids and various textures
• Abnormal suck-swallow, prolonged feeding time, excessive fluid loss during feeding
• Refuses new foods; picky eater
• Decreased tolerance to food on hands/face, turns head away, locks lips, does not want to self-feed
• Does not chew food, or chews minimally
• Anxious/irritable with eating, refuses to eat, disruptive during mealtime
• Growth issues due to failure to consume enough nutrients, as in the case with active reflux