Feeding Therapy & Food Aversion Therapy
Mealtimes should be enjoyable and nutritive!
Mealtimes with your child should be a special time to bond and create memories. It’s a time when families come together to communicate and share daily events. In short, mealtimes with your child should be both enjoyable and enriching for the entire family!
Some children, especially those with medical conditions, oral-motor weakness, Cerebral Palsy, Sensory Processing Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder, may have a very hard time eating.
Your child, like many
As difficult as feeding your child may be now, there is hope!

See if any of the items below apply to your child at mealtime:
Does your child…
New Beginnings can help!
Our feeding therapy is child-centered and will allow your child to develop a positive, healthy relationship with food and mealtimes. Our feeding therapy is designed to work with parents to meet family and nutritional goals.
Our treatment takes into account medical conditions, oral-motor weaknesses, emotional, social, cognitive, sensory, and nutritional needs.
Therapy is

Duration of therapy depends solely on your child’s needs. There are no “group camps” because every child is different and may need more or less therapy to achieve feeding and nutritional goals.
Our therapists use approaches developed and proven to be effective, including:
Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach
Food Chaining Approach
Evaluation
The day of the evaluation, you will be asked to bring 2-3 foods your child eats and 2 non-preferred foods, as well as their feeding utensils, cups, bottles.
The evaluation will take approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour.
Treatment
Treatment depends on your child’s identified needs and
We have feeding clinicians at both our Rich Beem and Zaragoza locations to better serve you.

For questions or for an evaluation call one of our office locations:
(915) 855-0601 (East) or (915) 303-5177 (Far East)