Feeding Therapy

Kitestrings Pediatric Therapy provides feeding therapy and nutrition services to infants, children, and adolescents with feeding struggles.

We are here to help your child with their feeding and nutrition, and achieve mealtimes that are more enjoyable for everyone!

When Feeding therapy is needed:

• Picky eating, food selectivity, rigid feeding behavior
• Limited food range/or missing complete food groups with concern of meeting nutritional needs
• Aversion or avoidance of variety of tastes, temperatures, and/or textures of food
• Failure to consume enough nutrients which can lead to poor growth
• Difficulty with breast and/or bottle feeding
• Difficulty transitioning from breast to bottle, baby foods, solids, table foods, and/or cups
• Coughing, choking, gagging, and/or vomiting with meals
• History of difficulty coordinating eating and breathing
• Children at risk for tube feedings or currently getting tube feedings
• Difficulty transitioning from tube feedings to oral feedings
• Overstuffing mouth with food
• Disruptive mealtime behaviors
• Delay in development of self-feeding
• Feeding and mealtimes have become stressful for child and/or family