Feeding and Swallowing Therapy
Feeding therapy is beneficial for infants and children presenting with:
- breast and/or bottle feeding difficulties (including infants with tongue and/or lip ties)
- difficulty transitioning to baby food, table food, or cup drinking
- texture aversions (gagging on lumpy purees or certain table foods)
- difficulty biting and chewing foods appropriately
- poor weight gain
- extremely limited food repertoire (accepts less than 30 foods consistently)
- rigid mealtime behaviors (accepts specific brands of food only, particular about presentation or order of foods)
Oral Motor or Oral Placement Therapy is used to
- To increase the awareness of the oral mechanism
- To normalize oral tactile sensitivity
- To improve the precision of volitional movements of oral structures for speech production and/or chewing and clearing oral cavity
- To increase differentiation of oral movements
- To improve feeding skills and nutritional intake
- To improve speech sound production to maximize intelligibility
Our therapists pull from a variety of feeding techniques across multiple theories and models of intervention. Visit our Meet The Team page for a list of trainings in feeding and oral placement therapy.
