Feeding Therapy

Pediatric Feeding Therapists work with your child and the family to provide you all with skills to safely, happily, and healthily participate in mealtime.

Benefits of Feeding Therapy?

Desensitization to sight, smell, touch, and taste of different foods.
Helping infants latch onto the breast or bottle nipple.
Learning to coordinate their swallowing and breathing.
Exposures to different or unfamiliar foods.
Expanding the foods the child accepts.
Guidance for the family on navigating challenging behaviors at mealtime.
Guidance for the family and child to create and follow a routine feeding schedule.
Guidance on how to plate and serve foods to encourage mealtime success.

Pediatric Feeding Therapists:

Aim to improve feeding/swallowing difficulties.
Treat patients with failure to thrive.
Treat patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Aim to improve oral motor skills.
Treat patients with respiratory issues.
Treat patients with weak oral muscles.

Our Pediatric Feeding Therapists provide 1:1 services from either an Occupational Therapist or Speech and Language Pathologist.

Would My Child benefit from feeding therapy?

Does your Child present with any of the following:

Coughing, gagging, or vomiting while eating?
Aversions to food textures, smells, and/or flavors?
Refusing to eat specific food groups and/or colors?
Eats less than 20 foods consistently?
Dysphagia?
Tongue thrust?

Do you find yourself asking:

How can I help my picky eater?
Why is my baby having a hard time latching?
Why does my child avoid new foods?
Why is my infant having a hard time swallowing and/or breathing?
How can I get my child to eat more foods?
Why does my mealtime feel like a struggle?

READY FOR A FUN THERAPY ENVIRONMENT,
THAT TRULY CARES ABOUT YOUR CHILD AND YOUR FAMILY?

If you are interested in enrolling your child in the intensive strengthening program at PTS, please utilize the links below to complete the intake documents. Once your intake documents are received, you will receive a phone call to screen your child for the program as well as discuss scheduling. If you have any questions, please call (813) 662-1060.