Over the last year, therapists are not the only ones who have been asking questions regarding early intervention. Parents have often written in and asked pressing questions regarding their child’s speech and feeding skills and development.
“I have a 16 month old who is just starting feeding therapy. She hardly chews her food, won’t try/eat certain foods, has multiple food allergies, and gags/chokes. She won’t sit in the chair. I’ve been doing lots of research about feeding and I tried to implement some things at home. We picked lunch to be the time to do it. She had severe reflux as an infant and she’s still on Prevacid so we think this has been all caused by reflux because she had bottle aversion too (now she drinks willingly out of a bottle). We are keeping her on the bottle because she drinks hypoallergenic formula and it’s the only way she will drink it. She does use a straw sippy cup for water. Do you have any other tips, ideas on how to get her to chew? We are having some issues with our ST, we don’t agree with some of the things she is telling us to do.”
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