OTA’s multi-disciplinary Pediatric Feeding Program offers an intensive, individualized therapy for children with oral sensory and/or medically based feeding disorders including:
- Limited intake
- Failure to thrive
- Sensitivities to taste/texture
- Oral motor and chewing disorders
- Problem meal time behavior
- Self feeding
What services do we provide?
- Evaluation
- Individual Treatment
- Learning at Mealtimes
Children increase tolerance of taste/texture through sensory play, discover the “joy of eating”, and improve oral-motor skills. Ask about our Toddler, Pre-School, School Age & Kids With Tubes Programs - Feeding Consultation
Assessment, consultation and training for schools, early childhood centers and community agencies - Parent Education
Understand the interplay of sensory processing, oral motor skills and social interaction. Learn strategies to help make every meal a “happy meal”
Who would benefit from these services?
Children who present with:
- Oral Sensory/Motor-based Feeding Disorders
- Prematurity
- Neuro-Motor Disorders
- Delayed Acquisition of Feeding Skills
- Feeding Tubes
- Medically Fragile
- Reflux
- Failure to Thrive
- Craniofacial Anomalies
- Head Injury
- Traumatic Injuries