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What is Feeding Therapy?

In simplest terms, Feeding Therapy helps children to learn how to eat or how to eat better. Here at Mobile Therapy Centers, we have therapists who are trained in the SOS approach to feeding. The SOS approach is a sensory-motivated approach that encourages exploration and play with foods.

Food Chaining is one of the strategies utilized in the SOS approach and one that is implemented here at Mobile Therapy Centers. Food Chaining is a fun, friendly way to pair non-preferred foods with foods a child already enjoys and has success with. In other words, you present a food that may be similar in texture, color, taste to a preferred food. For example, if a child’s preferred food is goldfish, you can change the appearance of the food by presenting rainbow colored goldfish, change the taste by presenting different flavored goldfish (pizza flavor), change the texture by presenting a cheese puff or Cheez-it, change the taste and texture by presenting an orange carrot.

What is Feeding Therapy?

Food Chaining can help decrease anxieties in a child when they are being presented with a novel food. In turn, this will help with increased interaction and exploration with the novel food item. The main goal of Food Chaining is to expose the child to a variety of foods in a fun, pressure-free way. The hope is that the child will become more comfortable and familiar with the foods to help increase their food variety and acceptance of non-preferred and novel foods.

Since February is known for Valentine’s Day, here is a fun, easy recipe you can make!
 
Valentine’s Fruit Pops
  1. Place white chocolate into a microwave-safe bowl.
  2. Microwave the chocolate for 30 seconds, then stir. Repeat until melted.
  3. Put the stick/straw into the center of the fruit (strawberries, apples or berries).
  4. Dip the fruit gently into the chocolate. Be sure to allow the excess to drip off.
  5. Shake red sprinkles on a plate. Dip and roll the chocolate covered fruit into the sprinkles.
  6. Allow to dry on a plate.

Another fun Valentine’s Day treat is using heart-shaped food cutters to make hearts with fruits, sandwiches, pancakes, etc.

Feeding

Mobile Therapy Centers is a Multidisciplinary Clinic and services include ABA Therapy for Autism, Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Behavioral Therapy, Feeding Therapy, Counseling. MTC has clinics in Illinois and Tennessee.

Reach out to us today at 800-977-9072, email asktheteam@mtcus.com or visit www.mtcus.com for more info.

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Elaina Pagliarulo AACOTA/L, AAT Handler

Elaina is a part of our MTC Occupational Therapy Department and received an education from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, McHenry County College, and Husson University. She has a strong passion for working with both animals and children. Elaina has always wanted to incorporate both of these passions into her career and is incredibly excited to bring Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) to Mobile Therapy Centers!

MTC's Therapy Dog: Rocky

Rocky is an Australian Mountain Doodle who loves to learn, play, and meet new people. Rocky joined our MTC team when he was just 8 weeks old and has been training to support the clients of MTC from day one. His kind and loving nature makes him the perfect match for Animal-Assisted Therapy, and Rocky can not wait to meet all his new friends through the MTC AAT program!