Sensory Based Feeding Groups
Do you have a picky eater at home? “I only eat the brown ones!” “I can’t eat those, they’re touching!”
Your child’s pickyness may be related to sensory-processing problems. Problems with sensory processing can produce aversions or obsessions with specific smells, textures, and tastes affecting your child’s relationship with food.
Need Help?
Pedi-Center for Therapy is offering Sensory Feeding Groups to foster positive relationships with mealtimes through play and sensory-based approaches. In addition to clinic-based feeding groups, a personalized home program will be developed for your child and family enabling mealtime success to travel from the clinic back to your dinner table.
What to expect during group
- A safe and fun environment to experience foods through imaginative play • Small groups (2-4) of like-aged children
- Progress tracked through gathered data
- Social skills/participation
Objectives: To experience food as non-threatening
Sharing food with loved ones is a long-held tradition in all cultures providing the opportunity for shared nutritional needs but also social and emotional needs. The dinner table is an arena for shared ideas, thoughts, good/bad days, and of course relishing in our favorite tastes.
Once your child is able to encounter food as friend, not foe, he/she can then begin to experience food and mealtimes as they ought to be: nutrition for both the body and soul.
Credits: Susan Roberts, MDiv, OTR/L
For more information about our summer sensory feeding groups, contact PEDI Center for Therapy at
PEDI Center
15414 N. 7th Street, Suite 3
Phoenix, AZ 85022
Tel: (602) 476-7519
Fax: (602) 445-4971
Email: lisa@ pedi-center.com
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