Benefits of in-home feeding therapy include:
- Personalized sessions that focus on your child’s mealtime challenges and preferences
- Reduced stress and sensory overwhelm by practicing in a familiar, comfortable space
- Use of your family’s actual food and mealtime setup to support lasting habits
- Hands-on coaching for caregivers, empowering you with strategies that work during everyday meals
- Flexible, convenient scheduling that supports your family’s routine and pace
Why Choose Sunshine Therapy Services
Our feeding therapy services for infants and toddlers focus on:
- Transitioning from bottles or breastfeeding to solids
- Oral motor delays (chewing, tongue movement, lip closure)
- Gagging, coughing, or choking during meals
- Poor weight gain or restricted food intake
- Feeding aversions and refusal behaviors
- Caregiver confidence during feeding routines
Feeding therapy can support your child with:
- Safe swallowing and oral coordination
- Improving food variety and reducing picky eating
- Managing texture aversions and sensory sensitivities
- Self-feeding and utensil use
- Mealtime behaviors
- Eating in social or public settings (like school lunches or dining out)
- Feeding-related anxiety and behavioral strategies
- Supporting tube weaning in coordination with your medical team
Through therapy, they can develop:
- Chewing and swallowing coordination
- Safe transitions between food textures
- Feeding posture and body awareness
- Confidence trying new foods
- Utensil and cup use
- Self-regulation during meals
- Improved attention and participation at mealtimes
- Positive caregiver-child interactions during feeding
- Independent eating skills as they grow