Feeding Therapy
A feeding therapist is uniquely trained to evaluate all aspects of a child’s feeding or feeding avoidance and can help parents find a path through these often overwhelming situations.
When an infant or child simply refuses to eat or becomes extremely (and sometimes dangerous) picky, parents are often left feeling frustrated at best. Conventional wisdom, such as, “he’ll eat when he’s hungry” may cause even more stress. Our experienced feeding team reviews all angles of your child’s eating experience and works to help you get to the root of the problem.
Speech Therapy can help with the following areas of speech and language:
- Articulation – the ability to make clear sounds
- Fluency – the flow of speech (an example of dysfluency is a stutter)
- Resonance – refers to the volume and quality of speech as affected by air flow through the oral and nasal cavities
- Recpetive language – the ability to understand/receive language or communication
- Expressive language – the ability to express language/communicate
- Pragmatic language – social language skills such as body language and taking turns in a conversation
Your child may have a feeding problem if he or she:
- Takes an excessive amount of time to eat
- Is not gaining enough weight
- Refuses certain food textures