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Help kids develop a positive relationship with food, so they can become healthy and adventurous eaters for life!

Is your child a picky eater? Do they insist on having the same foods served over and over again? Be it chicken nuggets, pizza, pancakes, or French fries—if your child is only eating a few foods regularly, their diet may be seriously lacking in the nutrition and vitamins they need to grow and be healthy. And you may feel stressed out and frustrated at mealtime. For many kids, picky eating is a sensory issue—whether it’s the smell, taste, texture, or appearance of food. So, how can you help your child overcome these sensory sensitivities and ensure that they get the nourishment they need?

Written by a pediatric occupational therapist with a specialty certification in feeding, eating, and swallowing, Raising Adventurous Eaters offers eight evidence-based sensory strategies to help kids foster a healthy relationship with food. You’ll learn all about how picky eating can be caused by sensory processing differences, and find step-by-step strategies for dealing with each sense. By learning to lean into their senses, children will better understand what’s going on in their bodies. This fosters an intuitive eating approach, teaching kids to listen to their body’s hunger and fullness cues and respect and respond to those cues appropriately.

Whether or not your child has a diagnosis of sensory processing disorder (SPD), or simply has sensory sensitivities when it comes to food, this book will help you set your child up for successful mealtimes, turning the most stressful time of the day into a time that your family can spend relaxing and bonding together around the table.

ISBN-13: 9781684039524

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Publication Date: 12-01-2022

Pages: 200

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

Lara Dato, MS, OTR/L, is a pediatric occupational therapist with a specialty certification in feeding, eating, and swallowing—one of approximately fifty professionals with these credentials in the US. In addition to years as a feeding therapist, she has taught courses on feeding therapy across the country. Her passion is helping picky eaters and their families find joy in adventurous eating! Suzanne Mouton-Odum, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who has helped children and families manage anxiety and difficult behaviors for more than twenty years. She coauthored Psychological Interventions for Children with Sensory Dysregulation and Helping Your Child with Sensory Regulation with Ruth Goldfinger Golomb. Ruth Goldfinger Golomb, LCPC, is senior clinician, supervisor, and codirector of the training program at the Behavior Therapy Center of Greater Washington, where she has worked for more than thirty years.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Introduction 1

Part 1 Vision

1 Introducing New Foods 18

2 Plates and Plating 23

3 Brand Specificity 26

4 Minimizing Visual Distractions 28

5 Making Food Fun 31

Part 2 Tactile

6 The Importance of Messy Eating 38

7 Managing Tactile Defensiveness at the Dining Table 42

8 Introducing Other Tactile Sensations 45

9 Introducing New Food Textures 47

Part 3 Smell

10 Adjusting the Environment 54

11 Helping Your Child with New Smells 57

12 Building a Smell Vocabulary 60

Part 4 Taste

13 Food Chaining 65

14 Preventing Food jags 68

15 Empowering Children and Developing Their Tastes 74

Part 5 Auditory

16 How We Talk About Food 79

17 The Power OF Crunch 84

18 ' Managing Auditory Sensitivities 85

19 Minimizing Distractions 87

Part 6 Body Awareness and Motor Planning (Proprioception)

20 Picking the Right Utensils 92

21 Mealtime Misbehaviors 97

22 Teaching Chewing Skills 104

23 Ending Pocketing 107

Part 7 Balance (Vestibular System)

24 Positioning and Posture 113

25 Setting Mealtimes Up for Success 116

Part 8 Internal Body Cues (Interoception)

26 Teaching Your Child to Read Their Body Cues: Hungry or Full? 121

27 Managing Constipation 127

28 Raising a Child That Eats Intuitively 130

Part 9 Mental Health

29 Food and Anxiety 135

30 Encouraging Positive Body Image 138

31 Helping Your Child Gain Weight 143

32 Helping YOUR Child Lose Weight 146

Part 10 Maintaining Sensory Regulation

33 Family Routines 153

34 Expanding Family Foods 158

35 Getting Everyone on the Same Page 160

36 Tips for Dining Out 166

37 Tips for Holidays 169

38 Tips for Eating at School 172

Conclusion: The Start of a Lifelong Food Adventure 177

Acknowledgments 178

Glossary 179

Additional Resources 180

References 183