Understanding Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Therapy

Los Angeles Leaders for Feeding and Swallowing Therapy That’s Fun and Effective

Signs Your Child Could Benefit From Feeding and Swallowing Therapy Include:

  • Therapy for Picky Eating

    Picky eating or refusal to try new foods

  • Therapy to Help My Child Chew

    Difficulty chewing food

  • Extreme Sensitivity to Food Texures

    Sensitivity to textures

  • Swallowing Therapy

    Difficulty swallowing

  • How to Reduce Irritability During Meal Times

    Fussiness or irritability during mealtimes

  • Gag Reflex Integration Therapy

    Gagging or choking during mealtimes

  • How to Reduce My Child's Reflux

    Frequent reflux or vomiting during or after mealtimes

  • Difficulty Latching Feeding Therapy

    Difficulties latching at breast or bottle

  • Therapy to Help Transition to Solids

    Difficulty transitioning to solids

  • Baby Led Weaning

    Messy eating

  • Feeding Therapy in LA

    Consistent overstuffing while eating

  • Feeding Therapy in Los Angeles

    Excessive drooling while eating

Feeding and Swallowing Therapy in Los Angeles

With our Los Angeles pediatric practice, you get an approach to eating and feeding issues that integrates strategies from sensory processing, oral motor coordination, and orofacial myofunctional therapy. 

Feeding and Swallowing Therapy in Los Angeles

Feeding and swallowing issues we address include:

  • Picky eating

  • Swallowing incoordination 

  • Breathing issues (e.g. mouth breathing)

  • Sensitive gag reflex 

  • Prolonged meal times 

  • Poor endurance with certain textures (e.g. proteins) 

  • Sensory sensitivities in the mouth or orofacial complex 

  • Drooling 

  • Difficulty drinking from a cup or straw 

  • Lack of chewing and swallowing food whole

  • Failure to thrive

  • Bottle use after the age of 12 months

  • Messy eater or pockets food in their mouth

We help your family confidently introduce a feeding plan that works for the needs of your child, specifically tailoring it to your parenting and lifestyle choices. 

Skills Our Therapists Work On

Feeding Therapy for Children in Los Angeles

Feeding and swallowing skills our occupational therapists and speech language pathologists work on include:

  • Oral motor skills, including strength, coordination, tongue lateralization, lip closure, and swallowing

  • Sensory processing skills, including tolerance for a variety of textures, flavors, smells, and appearances of food

  • Environmental adaptations and improvements to provide a positive feeding experience

  • Whole body strengthening and endurance

  • Caregiver education and training on activities, interventions and feeding progressions

Make Meal Times Easier With Our Los Angeles Based Team of Feeding and Swallowing Specialists