Feeding therapy is a specialized therapeutic approach administered by a trained speech or occupational therapist to treat feeding and swallowing difficulties in infants, children, and adolescents. At Avid Pediatric, your clinician will develop a treatment plan with the goal of helping your child learn to eat and/or swallow, or to improve their feeding and/or swallowing skills. Below are areas of need in which Avid Pediatric speech and occupational therapists can provide support to facilitate your child's feeding and swallowing skills:

• Sensory processing challenges and aversions 
• Oral motor delays/deficits 
• Premature birth
• Gastrointestinal (GI) conditions (e.g., reflux, nasogastric (NG) tube or gastric (G) tube placement, etc.)
• Cleft lip/cleft palate or other birth defects
• Restricted diet/delayed exposure
• Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing)
• structural abnormalities in the mouth, throat, or esophagus
• muscle or nerve conditions (e.g., cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, stroke, nerve injury, etc.)