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A Sensory Integrative
Approach to Feeding
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Joan Surfus, OTR/L, SWC
Amy Lynch, MS, OTR/L
Misericordia University
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This presentation is made possible, in part, by the
support of the American people through the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The content of this presentation is the sole responsibility
of the author(s) and does not necessarily reflect the
views of USAID or the United States Government.
The opinions and views expressed by the authors in this
document do not necessarily reflect the views and
opinions of KPMG.
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Critical Components
Developmental sequence of feeding skills
• Critical windows
• Texture transitions
• Self feeding
• Meal preparation and participation
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Review Typical Food – Think Sensory Qualities
• Breast/bottle
• 0-13 months
• Thin baby food cereals
• 6 months
• Thicker baby food cereals (plus one thin baby food)
• 6 ½ months
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Review Typical Food – Think Sensory Qualities
• Thin baby food/puree (stage 1)
• 7 months
• Thicker baby cereals &
thicker puree (stage 2)
• 8 months
• Soft mashed table foods and
table food purees
• 9 months
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Review of Typical Food – Think Sensory Qualities
Hard munchables • 9 months (oral
exploration only)
Jicama, baby pretzels,
dried fruits, bagel strips,
celery sticks
Meltable hard solids • 9 ½ months
Graham crackers, frozen
waffles, town crackers
Soft cubed foods • 10 months
Avocado, kiwi, boiled
potatoes, bananas
Soft mechanical (single
texture) • 11 months
Fruit breads, small
pasta, scrambled eggs
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Review of Typical Food – Think Sensory Qualities
Soft mechanical (single
texture) • 11 months
Cubed lunch meats, soft
pretzels, muffins
Soft mechanical
(mixed texture) • 12 months
Macaroni and cheese,
french fries, lasagna,
spaghetti
Soft table foods • 13-14 months
Soft foods in an
appropriate size & shape
Hard mechanicals • 15-18 months
Cheerios, saltine
crackers, chips, cookies
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Self Feeding – fine motor skills
• 6 months
• Cup drinking between 4-6 months
(much liquid loss)
• 9 months • Straw drinking, finger feeding,
banging spoon, imitate stirring
• 12 months • Finger feeding, cereal, small pieces,
self feeding with spoon (messy)
• 15 months • Refining self feeding (spoon/cup),
scooping foods and bring to mouth
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Self Feeding – fine motor skills
• 18 months
• Independent with spoon
and cup – including
open cup
• 24 months
• Spoon/fork, palm up
• 31-32 months
• Little spilling
• 30-36 months
• Fork to stab food
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Critical Components
• Gastrointestinal
Issues
• Allergies
• Picky, Resistant, or
Rigid & Inflexible
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Gastrointestinal Issues
• Reflux
• Esophageal issues (e.g., ulcers)
• Delayed gastric emptying
• Metabolic issues
• “Leaky” gut
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Allergies and Sensitivities
Common but not all
inclusive…
• Dairy
• Yeast
• Soy
• Wheat
• Eggs
• Nuts and seeds
• Gluten and Casein
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Picky, Resistant, Rigid/Inflexible
Picky eaters
• Often between two and three years old
• May fear new foods
• Limited in selection but eat a variety to
maintain balanced and healthy diet
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Picky, Resistant, Rigid/Inflexible
Resistant
• Extreme end of continuum
• Not defined by a single test or diagnosis
• Serious food aversions or medical
impairments that prevent them from
eating a balanced diet
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Picky, Resistant, Rigid/Inflexible
Resistant
• Limited selection (<10-15)
• Limited food groups
• Anxiety and/or tantrums when presented
new foods (may gag or vomit)
• Experiences “food jags”
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Food Jag
“Some children, especially those with
feeding difficulties, prefer to eat the same
food prepared the same way every day or
at every meal. This is known as a ‘food
jag.’ The main problem with food jags is
that children will eventually get bored or
burned out on these preferred foods.”
~ Kay Toomey, 2002
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Food Jag
“…these foods are typically lost out of that
child’s food range – permanently. They
may then continue this process of
eliminating foods until they have few foods
left in their food repertoire.”
~ Kay Toomey, 2002
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Picky, Resistant, Rigid/Inflexible
Rigid/inflexible
• Preferences lie outside of neuromotor
or sensory rationale
• Often seen in children with autism or
on the autism spectrum
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What is the “behavior” really
telling you???
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What types of “behavior” do
you see at mealtime?
Linking sensory systems to
mealtime “behavior”
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Sensory Considerations
Organization of Behavior/State Control Issues:
• Attention/awareness of mealtime activities?
• Ability to accept structure in mealtime?
• Frustration tolerance?
• Ability to self-calm? Re-initiate?
• Do any of these characteristics carry over into other times
of day?
• Is child able to pace themselves?
• Do any fluctuate with different meals?
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Sensory Considerations in
the Meal Assessment
• Does child express hunger? Do
they express when they are full?
• Can child tolerate different
textures? Temperature?
• Can child tolerate different smells?
• Is child more efficient with crunchy?
Salty? Sour?
• Is child able to detect saliva/food at
edges of mouth?
• Does child stuff? Pocket?
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Behaviors You May See
Related to Sensory Challenges
• Hyper-sensitivity (over-reactive) yields
gagging, increased head extension, lip
retraction, tongue thrusting, jaw thrusting, and
bite reflex
• Hypo-sensitivity (under-reactive) yields
deceased coughing, over-stuffing and
pocketing, drooling, decreased awareness of
food residuals, inability to safely detect
hot/cold
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Proprioception
• May have difficulty adjusting/grading amount of
jaw opening needed to take bites of foods
• May hold and use eating utensils with too
much/little force
• May bite lip/cheek without noticing
• May not know how much pressure to exert
when using a cup/spoon (spilling frequently)
• Poor body awareness (in relation to
objects/people – spilling or dropping frequently
• May over-stuff mouth
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Tactile
• Limited repertoire of food textures
• Extremes (very mushy - very crunchy)
• Difficulty transitioning with textures
• May spit out lumps in food
• Foods chosen in a pattern
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Over-responsive - Tactile
• Dislikes “messy” play
• Bothered by certain textures of clothing
• Prefers a specific temperature of food
• Avoids mixed textures
• Dislikes ADL activities
• Nail trimming
• Teeth brushing
• haircuts
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Under-responsive - Tactile
• Unaware of touch unless very intense
• Unaware of food left on face or in mouth
• May swallow a large bolus with no
reaction
• “disconnected” from their hands
• Seeks “messy” play
• Seeks strong flavors (food or drink)
• Mouths objects to gain information
• after age 2
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Tactile System – Adequate sensory processing
• Child is not aversive to
having food on face or
hands during meals
• Child eats a wide variety
of tastes and textures
• Child engages in messy
play activities without
distress
• Child wears a variety of
clothing materials
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Vestibular
• Difficulty moving head back when drinking from
a cup
• The child may focus all attention on how she is
moving or not moving
• May be constantly alerted to one’s body position
in space (leaning to one side and be fearful of
falling) – therefore decreased attention on eating
• This system works closely with visual and
proprioception
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Over-responsive
Vestibular System
• Dislikes playground activities
• Cautious, slow moving, or sedentary
• May get car sick
• Loses balance when climbing stairs,
hopping, or riding a bike
• Uncoordinated or awkward
• Fear of falling/heights
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Under-reactive to vestibular
• Needs to keep moving; can’t sit still
• Repeatedly or vigorously moves their
head, rocks, jumps frequently
• Craves intense movement experiences
• Loose or floppy body
• Prefers to lie down vs. sit upright
• May not get as dizzy as others
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Visual
• The sight of food alone elicits an
aversive response
• May shield their eyes
• May cover one eye or squint when
focusing
• Difficulty shifting gaze
• Misjudge spatial relationships of objects
• Maybe uncomfortable by people moving
in the environment
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Gustatory (taste)
Increased taste sensitivity: over-
responsive
• Objects to certain textures (mashed,
lumpy)
• Objects to certain temperatures (hot,
cold, room temperature)
• Often gags when eating
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Gustatory (taste)
Decreased taste sensitivity: under-
responsive
• Mouths inedible objects (playdough, toys)
• Prefers intense flavors (spicy, sour, salty)
• Prefers intense temperature (hot or cold)
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Olfactory (smell)
• May have a memory of a bad
experience with a particular
food/environment
• Smell in the environment may be
distracting
• When there is dysfunction:
• Oversensitive
• Objects to odors not noticed by others
• Ignores unpleasant odors
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Feeding Concerns
Putting it all together….
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Feeding Concerns
• Physiological
• Respiratory
• Posture
• Motor
• Sensory
• Behavioral
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Case Study: Rachel
• Down
syndrome
• Normal birth
history
• Feeding history
• Therapy history
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Physiological Concerns
• Overall structures
• Symmetry of structures
• Typical, atypical, or absent
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Links to Feeding, Eating,
and Growth Disruptions
Respiratory
• Mouth breather due to severe
congestion/blocked nasal pharynx
Posture
• Low tone
• posterior pelvic tilt
• open mouth posture
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Links to Feeding, Eating,
and Growth Disruptions
Sensory
• Under-responsive
• decreased awareness of food in mouth
• decreased awareness to flavors
• Over-responsive
• temperature
• Low arousal
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Links to Feeding, Eating,
and Growth Disruptions
Praxis: Major difficulties between
coordination and execution of oral
movements in relation to
head/neck/trunk stability
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Links to Feeding, Eating,
and Growth Disruptions
Fine motor
• Decreased graded control
• decreased midrange control of tongue
• decreased strength/coordination for chewing
• Decreased fine motor skills in regards to
hand function
Environmental
• Extremely distractible
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Links to Feeding, Eating,
and Growth Disruptions
Behavior
• Often refuses to eat new or familiar
foods
• often due to not able to “feel” where they
are in her mouth
• Visually, if does not look familiar,
refuses to eat
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Motor Concerns
• Ideation
• Coordination
• Execution
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Sensory Concerns
• Textures
• Temperatures
• Tastes
• Pain
• Hypo sensitivity
• Hyper sensitivity
• Modulation and
arousal
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Behavioral Concerns
Coping strategies
stemming from
• physiological
concerns
• skill deficits
• motivation and habits
Interactions between
• child and his/her
world view
• significant other(s)
and their view(s) of
the child
• physical environment
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General Intervention Strategies
• Play-based
approach
• Calm
environment
• Child initiated
and therapist
directed
• Fun
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Intervention Strategies
Motor/Sensory/Praxis
• Whole body activity prior
to feeding (heavy work)
• Use of vestibular input to
increase arousal
• Warm up oral motor
exercises or activity prior
to meal (silly faces in the
mirror, facial molding)
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Intervention Strategies
Visual/Environmental
• Eliminate visual distractions
in room (t.v., peers, lighting)
• Presenting small, child-
sized plate with fistful
portion of bite sized food
Posture
• Adequate support or
positioning
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Intervention Strategies
Tactile/Sensory
• Facilitate decreased tactile defensiveness by
beginning distally, work proximally
• Whole body massage or proprioceptive
based activity
• Increase variety and acceptance by choosing
foods with similar qualities