Feeding Therapy

Healthy eating is vital to child development and growth. Eating allows us to experience pleasure while socializing with those we know and love. For many children learning to eat in a typical and enjoyable way is a big challenge. For a variety of reasons ranging from medical complications, delayed motor skills, to atypical sensory processing and more, many children are not able to enjoy food or eat sufficient nutrition to ensure appropriate growth and development. At Spectrum Pediatrics, all of our feeding therapy is conducted in a child-directed, family friendly, and respectful manner. We acknowledge the reasons children don't eat well or easily and guide them along with their parents towards a healthy diet, optimal nutrition, and improved feeding skills. We never bribe children or force them to eat when they are signaling that this is not what they want. We always respond to the cues children offer us verbally and non-verbally and facilitate the feeding process through family coaching. We help families restructure their feeding routines, environments, and interactions to help make food fun.

Clinical Training and Mentorship

Spectrum Pediatrics provides a variety of valuable professional training options to clinicians on the subject of feeding therapy and feeding tube weaning. We travel to clinics and hospitals to intensively train staff and departments on our philosophy and approach to successfully helping children become healthy and happy eaters. Additionally, we offer annual workshops to help clinicians learn how to make the transition from behavioral based approaches to feeding therapy towards a child-directed and natural approach.. We also provide professionals with clinical mentorship through email, voicemail, and video conferencing which allows us to meet the specific needs of each therapist and their caseload. For more information please contact our main office at therapy@spectrumpediatrics.com.