Mealtime/Feeding Evaluations + Therapy

Way To Grow Pediatric Therapy conducts evaluations for infants and children presenting with a multitude of feeding and swallowing concerns. Infant feeding evaluations offer a collaborative, developmental approach to optimizing both breast and bottle feeding. The comprehensive evaluation assesses a child’s oral motor skills, positioning, swallow function, and sensory processing related to eating and drinking.

Our skilled therapists then generate a client-specific plan of care to appropriately target oral motor or sensory feeding concerns present. Infant developmental feeding treatment is focused on supporting positive feeding experiences through a cue based, infant led approach.

Therapy can focus on bottle feeding, appropriate positioning supports/strategies, open cup drinking, straw drinking, oral motor strengthening, spoon feeding, biting/chewing solids, and exploring different food groups and textures.