NVPT Feeding therapists provide skilled assessment and intervention to children with feeding difficulties. Feeding difficulties may include a child’s inability to suck, chew, swallow food safely, refusal to eat, aversions to food or limited intake.
Feeding therapy is provided in individual or peer group sessions and may address:
- Food aversions
- Food refusal
- Very picky eating
- Avoidance of certain textures
- Failure to thrive
- Not willing to touch food
- Aversive mealtime behaviors
- Gagging
- Vomiting
- Oral motor difficulties (chewing, sucking)
- Pocketing of food in cheeks
- Stuffing mouth with food
- Gastrointestinal problems (reflux, feeding tubes, etc.)
- Reduced/limited intake
