Feeding and Swallowing Therapy
What is Feeding & Swallowing Therapy? Feeding and Swallowing Therapy is a therapeutic service that instructs adults, families and children about how to overcome difficulties with picky eating and problem feeding. With adults, therapy focuses on regaining oral motor skills, rebuilding muscle strength and coordination, implementing positioning techniques, and diet modifications. Pediatric feeding therapy employs play and systematic desensitization approaches to increase a child’s sense of safety and comfort with foods. So, who needs feeding/swallowing therapy? Feeding & swallowing therapy is provided to adults who have lost eating/swallowing functions due to an acquired condition or trauma (a condition called Dysphagia). Children who receive feeding therapy typically struggle with picky eating, difficulties following mealtime routines and expectations, trouble with chewing, drinking, and/or swallowing, poor oral motor skills, and sensory aversions. W...