04 Jun 2012, 2:23 pm
LOL "DD" means "Dear Daughter". The food therapy is something usually used on very young children or older children (and I suppose even adults) with severe aversions to eating a variety of foods. It involves just playing with the food then working up to smelling it tasting it etc., my OT tried to get my son to finger paint with ketchup and mustard and dip carrot and cheese sticks into it with no expectation that he would actually eat any of the food. Many of the parents on Wrong Planet may seem more knowledgeable because a large percentage of us are on the spectrum ourselves.
Wow, I need to get on board with the acronyms apparently. So food therapy should be something known by an OT,( which I actually do know means occupational therapy)
there is hope for me. Thanks for the input I will talk with our OT, to see what she knows about food therapy. Did your son try the food? Did the sessions evolve from there or did you pick up on what you needed to do and just went with it?
04 Jun 2012, 2:27 pm
04 Jun 2012, 2:49 pm
04 Jun 2012, 2:59 pm
LOL "DD" means "Dear Daughter". The food therapy is something usually used on very young children or older children (and I suppose even adults) with severe aversions to eating a variety of foods. It involves just playing with the food then working up to smelling it tasting it etc., my OT tried to get my son to finger paint with ketchup and mustard and dip carrot and cheese sticks into it with no expectation that he would actually eat any of the food. Many of the parents on Wrong Planet may seem more knowledgeable because a large percentage of us are on the spectrum ourselves.
Wow, I need to get on board with the acronyms apparently. So food therapy should be something known by an OT,( which I actually do know means occupational therapy)
there is hope for me. Thanks for the input I will talk with our OT, to see what she knows about food therapy. Did your son try the food? Did the sessions evolve from there or did you pick up on what you needed to do and just went with it?No, as I said earlier in the thread food therapy didn't work for us at all, it just made my son more resistant and combative. He was only 2 at the time but he knew it was all a ruse to get him to eat things he did not want to eat.
04 Jun 2012, 3:58 pm
Wow, I need to get on board with the acronyms apparently. So food therapy should be something known by an OT,( which I actually do know means occupational therapy)
there is hope for me. Thanks for the input I will talk with our OT, to see what she knows about food therapy. Did your son try the food? Did the sessions evolve from there or did you pick up on what you needed to do and just went with it?I've heard it called "feeding therapy" rather than "food therapy", or Sequential Oral Sensory Approach (AKA "S.O.S Approach"). It's a specialized part of OT, although there are SLP's trained in it as well due to the swallowing aspect -- I wouldn't expect a school OT to know much about it. You would most likely find it at a feeding clinic affiliated with a children's hospital.
It was an utter and complete failure for my son. After about 12 sessions the therapist politely "fired" him as a client, saying we'd be better off spending our time and energy elsewhere. She said she'd never worked so long with a client with so little result, and that we needed to address his avoidance behaviors before dealing with food. It was apparently more helpful for a friend's son, whose main issues tend more toward anxiety.
11 Jun 2012, 7:58 pm
12 Jun 2012, 11:04 am
My son biggest improvment has been from speech therapy, just from getting the basics with his language disorder, everything else is falling in.
Also preschool was a very important thing for him as it allowed him time to be around other children, and getting out and doing something. Along with play therapy has made a great difference for his eye therapy but i simple do that at home. Which really just means getting on the floor and just giving him , him time to play together~
And lately his improvements have been huge in 3 weeks. I think spiderman may have helped 
. And his attachment to his hats. It's strange but because of these things he started saying words like. "I climb buildings" or "Shoots the webs" and it's not even educationally, and every moment in need of his hat "Wheres my hat?" etc, then all of a sudden words just started flowing out and proper lil 3 + words. My mum thinks spiderman helped too somehow lol.
