Feeding Therapy
Trusted Speech
and Myofunctional Therapy
in Montgomery County MD
FEEDING THERAPY
Mealtime Should Be Fun!
Does your child fight with you about what's on their plate? Do they only eat a few foods? Is it hard for them to even sit at the table?
If mealtimes are painful instead of playful and your child is having a particularly hard time eating, there may be more going on than just "picky eating". Feeding Therapy can help. At Gladstone Speech, we address the root causes of these difficulties, and develop personalized and comprehensive goals to create positive and safe feeding experiences. This may range from learning how to chew or drink, to expanding their food repertoire.
Your child deserves to enjoy eating. Your family deserves to have pleasurable mealtime experiences together.
**For chewing and swallowing problems related to oral motor difficulties, please refer to: Oral Motor Therapy & OMT.
LANGUAGE THERAPY
FEEDING DIFFICULTIES
Recognizing the Signs That Your Child May Need Feeding Support
Language development forms the foundation for everything your child learns, communicates, and connects with the world around them.
Language development consists of receptive language (our understanding of concepts) and expressive language (our ability to produce and convey our ideas). Our clients’ language goals may cover any of the following:
- ✓delayed milestones: following simple directions, babbling, producing 1st words or 1st phrases (2+ words)
- ✓listening comprehension
- ✓building vocabulary
- ✓producing and formulating different sentences
- ✓recalling and retrieving the right words
- ✓utilizing other means of communication (nonverbal language development; augmentative and alternative communication (AAC))
PRAGMATIC LANGUAGE & SOCIAL SKILLS
OUR APPROACH
A Personalized, Collaborative Approach to Feeding Therapy
How we use language in our everyday lives is just as important as comprehension and expression.
At Gladstone Speech, we explore the building blocks of social interactions through play-based therapy, role-playing, social problem solving, and utilizing strategies for different conversational partners and for forming relationships.
We often address this aspect of Autism Spectrum Disorders and Social Communication Disorders.
