feeding therapy
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Struggling to help your child overcome their eating challenges can be a daunting and scary process. At Thrive by Spectrum Pediatrics, we help children conquer the obstacles that stand in their way of becoming happy and healthy eaters. Using evidence-based methods and lots of love, we address not only the symptoms of the feeding challenges but directly address the very reasons for those challenges. We help parents and children re-build feeding skills and mealtime relationships so that kids can learn to enjoy eating in a successful and lasting way.
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Let us listen. One of our expert therapists will meet with you to hear about your little one’s current eating situation, past feeding habits, challenges, and current feeding plan. Once we know more about where your child might be stuck with eating, we’ll share evidence-based and practical strategies that you can use right away. As your child’s eating skills improve, they’re more likely to become increasingly comfortable around food. After this 45-minute listening and learning session, your feeding specialist will follow up via email with a customized list of helpful resources.
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Let us help you make sense of the challenges your child is facing around food and feeding. Our evaluation, done virtually or in-person, looks at your whole child — not just one part of the eating equation. We take into account all of the factors that can make feeding challenges tricky and difficult to overcome. With the full picture of your child’s feeding issues in focus, we’re able to design an individualized therapy plan that expands your child’s eating skills and, in the process, fosters new ease around food. This assessment sets the stage for productive collaboration between our therapists and your child’s doctors so that we can ensure safety and success with food!
feeding evaluation
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Meeting regularly with you and your child, we’ll work as a team to bolster trust and acceptance, as we help build the skills necessary for them to feel strong and confident about eating. We find that practicing Responsive Feeding Therapy — strategies proven to facilitate a child’s long-term, healthy relationship with food — with actively involved parents significantly decreases mealtime stress while increasing a child’s comfort and ability to eat. With this solid foundation, we can lead your child to skilled and peaceful feeding.
ongoing feeding therapy
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We offer an intensive, 10-day feeding therapy program in the comfort of your own home (or virtually, when appropriate). Before working together, we’ll create a personalized preparation program designed especially for your child so that right from day one, everyone will be primed and ready to succeed.
During the intensive treatment, you’ll have round-the-clock support from one of our expert feeding specialists. Not only will they be available during mealtimes to teach the skills necessary for your child to eat successfully and healthfully, but they’ll be there between sessions to offer assistance when questions or issues arise. After the intensive portion is complete you have our assistance for 6 months of follow-up care so that we can help you navigate the inevitable bumps that come with feeding kids and ensure that progress is lasting. Through the use of Responsive Feeding Therapy principles and our advanced knowledge of how feeding skills develop best, we’re able to help your child overcome what got them stuck in the first place and become the eaters they were always meant to be.
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