Thursday, July 10, 2008

feeding eval

He had it done two days ago and the verdict is we are adding another therapy to the mix. She said he was delayed in his feeding and speech by 6-9 months just like everything else. She also said that his feeding issues are one of three things. The first is a sensory issue. He doesn't like the feel of the chunks or harder food in his mouth. The second is low muscle tone in his jaw. He doesn't have the strength to do the up and down chewing motion. The third is he has bad memories of food from all of his problems with food about a year ago and associates food with pain. She said we are also going to start speech therapy. So all in all it was a good evaluation and he will be starting in two weeks.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good post.