SOS Feeding Therapy

🥄 What is the S.O.S Approach to Feeding?

The Sequential-Oral-Sensory (S.O.S) Approach helps children feel more comfortable with food, step by step. It is based on typical developmental milestones and uses play to explore food in a pressure-free, supportive way. We help children move from tolerating food nearby to interacting with it, smelling it, touching it, tasting it, and eventually eating the food, all at their own pace.

🎯 What are the goals?

For your child:

• Build positive food experiences

• Learn mealtime routines & “cues to eating”

• Reduce resistance to new textures and tastes

• Increase variety and quantity of foods
   

 For you:

• Understand how children learn to eat

• Recognize what may be contributing to challenges

• Learn to support eating at home using SOS strategies

💡What makes SOS unique?

• Play with a Purpose - fun, child-led exploration of food

• No pressure, no rewards - we never bribe or force

• Sensory + skill-based - we target all areas affecting eating

• Family-centered - caregivers are key to success

• Team-based - we collaborate with dietitians & therapists

• Strengths-focused - we build on what your child can do

🧩 How does therapy work?

• Parent education - foundational knowledge & support

• 1:1 therapy sessions - tailored to your child’s needs

• Group therapy - when appropriate, peer support and modeling helps!

• Dietitian consults - ensure nutritional needs are met

• Collaborative care - therapists + team working together