Sensory-based Feeding

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Across
  1. 5. Generally eat at least 30 different foods and eat at least one food from each nutrition group. (two words)
  2. 7. This is used for a child to progress through a feeding hierarchy and will be able to build upon their food palate. (two words)
  3. 9. When assessing oral skills, it is very important to assess this.
  4. 10. Positive reinforcement, differential attention, and physical guidance are examples of this type of intervention strategy.
  5. 11. This plays an important role in the success of mealtime and modifying this can encourage the child to eat.
  6. 12. This type of guidance is when a health care professional provides manual assistance with the appropriate feeding response after the child demonstrates an incorrect response.
Down
  1. 1. Have a restricted variety of foods and usually eat less than 20 different foods; Refuse entire nutrition groups and food texture categories. (two words)
  2. 2. This may be ordered to assess feeding difficulties.
  3. 3. A common one of these that helps a child expand their palate is tolerating, interacting, touching, smelling, tasting, chewing, and swallowing.
  4. 4. Smaller, shallower spoons help with this around the spoon. (two words)
  5. 6. This type of attention is when a health care professional provides positive attention to the desired feeding behavior and ignores inappropriate feeding behavior.
  6. 8. Using a hierarchy for feeding therapy is typically known as this acronym.