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Tag: A SENSORY-MOTOR APPROACH TO FEEDING

Success Story: Colter & Vanessa

Down Syndrome Feeding Therapy: Colter’s Chewing Progress Home › Blog › Down Syndrome Feeding Therapy: Colter’s Chewing Progress Success Story Down Syndrome Feeding Therapy: Colter’s Chewing Progress Colter’s Down syndrome feeding therapy journey shows how targeted oral motor work and the TalkTools pre-feeding hierarchy helped him move from unsafe swallowing to successful chewing. TT Vanessa […]

WIN A PRE-FEEDING KIT!

We are happy to introduce our new Pre-Feeding Kit! The goal of a pre-feeding program is to develop the oral sensory motor skills to support safe, effective and nutritive feeding. This kit was designed in response to therapist and family requests for a comprehensive kit appropriate across the ages and for a variety of feeding issues. […]

Ask A Therapist: Feeding Therapy with Bite Straws

Hi Lori. Without seeing the student, can you tell me if this sounds like accurate application of the Feeding Therapies we learned in your workshop? When using the bite straws with a one year old girl with Down’s, she moves her head to the side to which the straw is presented to instantly suck the applesauce […]