ORAL MOTOR & FEEDING THERAPY
The muscles we use to speak are the muscles we use to eat.
What is feeding therapy?
Feeding therapy aims to help children with a wide array of feeding difficulties that impact a child's nutrition, including chewing and swallowing.
We support oral motor strategies that use a variety of oral motor exercises and specialized tools to develop awareness, increase strength, and improve coordination of oral muscles (lips, tongue, jaw).
Therapy will help your child to safely chew and swallow a variety or flavored and textured foods, as well as, drink liquids without choking, expelling, or refusing foods.
Treatment Areas
Feeding-Tube Dependency
Oral Motor Weakness/ Trouble Chewing
Oral Hyper/hyposensitivity (Gagging)
Texture aversion/avoidance
Pocketing of foods
Food refusal
Dysphagia (swallowing difficulty/choking)
Oral leakage with liquids