Feeding Therapy
At Frisco Feeding & Speech Therapy, we pride ourselves in offering feeding and swallowing therapy for children birth-21 years. Whether your child is having difficulty swallowing, transitioning to solids, refusing certain textures, or refraining from eating at social events, we provide personalized interventions to create a healthier relationship with food.
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Who Would Benefit from Feeding Therapy?
Our feeding therapy techniques have been effective in treating a wide variety of disorders
Transition to Solid Foods
Support for children who struggle moving from milk or purees to solid foods. Therapy builds confidence with new textures and teaches safe chewing and swallowing skills.
Extremely Picky Eaters
Help for children who eat very few foods or refuse entire food groups. Therapy expands accepted foods using gentle exposure, sensory exploration, and positive mealtime experiences.
Oral Motor & Swallowing Issues
Guidance for children with difficulty chewing, moving food in the mouth, or safely swallowing. Therapy strengthens oral muscles and improves coordination to support safe and efficient eating.
Trouble Meeting Caloric & Nutritional Needs
Care for children who are not eating enough or who rely on very limited foods. Therapy focuses on improving intake, building routine, and expanding nutritious options.
Behavioral Challenges Surrounding Mealtimes
Support for families facing tantrums, refusal, or power struggles during meals. Therapy teaches positive mealtime routines and strategies that reduce stress and encourage enjoyable eating.
Nasogastric Tube (NG-tube) Weaning
Therapeutic guidance for helping children transition from tube feedings to oral eating when medically appropriate. Therapy builds oral skills, hunger cues, and safe intake patterns.
Gastrostomy Tube (G-tube) Weaning
Specialized support for children with long term tube feeding who are ready to increase oral intake. Therapy focuses on hunger development, skill building, and gradual reduction of tube feeds.
Tongue-tie Difficulties
Care for infants and children whose tongue mobility limits feeding. Therapy addresses latch, chewing, swallowing, and oral motor coordination and provides support before and after frenectomy (tongue/lip tie release) if recommended.
Bottle-feeding Complications
Help for infants who struggle with bottle use, including difficulty latching, leaking, coughing, or fatigue while feeding. Therapy evaluates oral skills and teaches safer, more efficient feeding patterns.
Anxiety Induced Avoidance Surrounding Mealtimes
Support for children who feel worried or fearful about eating due to past medical experiences, choking events, or sensory sensitivities. Therapy builds trust, coping strategies, and positive food interactions.
Sensory Limitations
Care for children who react strongly to certain textures, temperatures, smells, or tastes. Therapy uses step by step sensory exploration to improve comfort and acceptance of a wider range of food.
Restricted Diets
Support for children who only accept a narrow list of foods. Therapy expands variety by pairing preferred foods with new options and developing comfort with gradual change.
Myofunctional Concerns
Evaluation and therapy for tongue, lip, and jaw patterns that affect chewing, swallowing, and oral development. Treatment builds correct oral posture and functional movement for safer, more effective eating.
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Transition to Solid Foods
Support for children who struggle moving from milk or purees to solid foods. Therapy builds confidence with new textures and teaches safe chewing and swallowing skills.
Extremely Picky Eaters
Help for children who eat very few foods or refuse entire food groups. Therapy expands accepted foods using gentle exposure, sensory exploration, and positive mealtime experiences.
Oral Motor & Swallowing Issues
Guidance for children with difficulty chewing, moving food in the mouth, or safely swallowing. Therapy strengthens oral muscles and improves coordination to support safe and efficient eating.
Trouble Meeting Caloric & Nutritional Needs
Care for children who are not eating enough or who rely on very limited foods. Therapy focuses on improving intake, building routine, and expanding nutritious options.
Behavioral Challenges Surrounding Mealtimes
Support for families facing tantrums, refusal, or power struggles during meals. Therapy teaches positive mealtime routines and strategies that reduce stress and encourage enjoyable eating.
Nasogastric Tube (NG-tube) Weaning
Therapeutic guidance for helping children transition from tube feedings to oral eating when medically appropriate. Therapy builds oral skills, hunger cues, and safe intake patterns.
Gastrostomy Tube (G-tube) Weaning
Specialized support for children with long term tube feeding who are ready to increase oral intake. Therapy focuses on hunger development, skill building, and gradual reduction of tube feeds.
Tongue-tie Difficulties
Care for infants and children whose tongue mobility limits feeding. Therapy addresses latch, chewing, swallowing, and oral motor coordination and provides support before and after frenectomy (tongue/lip tie release) if recommended.
Bottle-feeding Complications
Help for infants who struggle with bottle use, including difficulty latching, leaking, coughing, or fatigue while feeding. Therapy evaluates oral skills and teaches safer, more efficient feeding patterns.
Anxiety Induced Avoidance Surrounding Mealtimes
Support for children who feel worried or fearful about eating due to past medical experiences, choking events, or sensory sensitivities. Therapy builds trust, coping strategies, and positive food interactions.
Sensory Limitations
Care for children who react strongly to certain textures, temperatures, smells, or tastes. Therapy uses step by step sensory exploration to improve comfort and acceptance of a wider range of food.
Restricted Diets
Support for children who only accept a narrow list of foods. Therapy expands variety by pairing preferred foods with new options and developing comfort with gradual change.
Myofunctional Concerns
Evaluation and therapy for tongue, lip, and jaw patterns that affect chewing, swallowing, and oral development. Treatment builds correct oral posture and functional movement for safer, more effective eating.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Get StartedWhat Feeding Skills Should Be Present by Age?
Track your child's feeding milestones by age group
- Closes mouth firmly or turns head away when hunger is satisfied
- Accepts breast milk or formula
- Shows interest in food
- Moves food from the front to back of the mouth
Every child develops at their own pace. These are general guidelines to help track progress.
When to Reach Out for Feeding Support
There is a wide range of what is considered to be "typical" but here are some signs that your child could benefit from extra support.
0-12 mo
- Drools or is chronically congested when eating
- Doesn't feed him/herself
- Frequent coughing/gagging/choking while eating
- Mealtimes exceed 30 minutes
- Receives all nutrition via bottle or purees
12-24 mo
- Drools or has very unclear speech
- Doesn't feed him/herself
- Frequent coughing/gagging/choking while eating
- Eating and breathing coordination issues (causing aspiration or coughing)
- Mealtimes exceed 30 minutes
- Refuses to sit during mealtimes
- Difficulty weaning from bottle/formula
- Diet predominately consists of pureed foods
- Frequent respiratory illness
3+ Years
- Poor weight gain or noted weight loss
- Refusal of entire food groups
- Fewer than 20 foods in their diet
- Refusal to eat at the table or with the family
- Difficulty chewing
- Gagging, spitting, vomiting
- Fear of new foods and/or textures
- Refusal of previously eaten foods
- Anxiety when eating around others
If any of these sound familiar, our team is here to support your family's journey.
Get StartedFrequently Asked Questions
Expert answers to your questions about pediatric feeding therapy
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Insurance accepted • Serving families birth-21 years