for feeding professionals

Our book, Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating  primarily supports parents and children at home, while introducing therapeutic tips and techniques. But many children need and benefit from the expertise of a trained SLP or OT. There are many providers of continuing education, and since most of your training will happen after you graduate, it can be hard to know where to turn. The thing about food chaining, bridging, SOS, crumbing, oral motor work… is that these techniques are tools in your kit. Many strategies can be used within our STEPS+ framework and a trusting therapeutic relationship. I hope that the links on this page will give you ideas for further reading, training, and resources to help you best help children and families.

                                                                                                                                               – Jenny

The Trust Triangle 

( Copyright, 2016: Jenny McGlothlin)

When incorporating the STEPS+ approach into therapy, you can’t separate the child’s reactions to food from the larger feeding context, just as you can’t separate the sensory and motor systems when viewing feeding skills.
The dynamic triangle helps us understand the relational aspect of therapy.

• Child relationship with parent/therapist: child learns what and who to trust when it comes to food, with the child’s challenges filtered through that dynamic
• Parent relationship with therapist: parent learns new way to view their child’s behaviors and how to promote improved skills