No images? Click here Spring Food SchoolHello Little Hands Families! We are excited to announce that Little Hands will be offering 6-week feeding groups! Groups will be separated by age and are on the following dates: Ages 3.5 - 5.11 years:
Ages 6 - 9 years:
Over the course of 6 treatment sessions, children will participate in play-based activities incorporating a variety of foods and a whole-body approach to eating: This encompasses postural control, oral motor skills, behavior, learning, sensory processing, medical needs, and nutritional considerations. Food School will be facilitated by occupational therapists, using tenants from the evidence-based Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding. It emphasizes play-based systematic desensitization to non-preferred foods to teach children to eat, explore, and enjoy a wide range of foods. Our feeding groups at Little Hands adhere to a basic tenet of meeting children at their developmental feeding level. This means that we never force a child to eat a non-preferred food. Instead, we guide children in climbing a developmental hierarchy of feeding skills and behaviors through active play and interaction with a variety of foods. This evidence-supported approach contributes to long-term improvement, so that children are able to increase food diversity comfortably and successfully at home, school, on playdates, at birthday parties, and everywhere in between. We offer feeding interventions using a peer group model, as this is an incredibly effective and powerful treatment modality in feeding therapy. Children can make rapid progress when motivated by peer-models with similar feeding challenges. Parents also take an active role in feeding interventions with ongoing coaching and home recommendations implemented to support carryover of skills for both the parent and child. Is the SOS Approach to Feeding Right for my child
How to sign up:
Let’s make food fun! ● Space is limited to 4-6 children for the Spring group. ● Food school sessions will be prepaid for all 6 sessions. Given the nature of the feeding intervention and pacing of therapy activities in a group setting, we will not be offering make-ups for any missed food school sessions. Should you have additional questions about billing, please contact Emily! Emily O'Brien | (415) 758-2768 | eo@littlehandsot.com |