Feeding Group Therapy

If you’ve got a particularly picky eater, you’ll want to join our group of kids and parents who have fun learning how to enjoy eating and trying new foods. Get ready to play with your food and say yes to a mess!

Feeding Group Therapy works with children who:

• Have limited diets that affect their growth and nutrition
• Avoid certain classes of foods, such as fruits, vegetables or meats
• Avoid foods based on characteristics, such as chewy, crunchy or pureed
• Have difficulty moving food around in their mouths or chewing foods
• Become upset at the sight of new or different foods.

Group therapy sessions are based on play and encourage children to interact with foods through all their senses. It begins with a preferred food and then gradually introduces new foods that differ by one characteristic, such as temperature, color, texture or shape. Teaching the difference and similarities between foods helps decrease anxiety and fear of new foods.

The sessions, based on the Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) approach, are led by an occupational therapist and speech language therapist.