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[quote=Anonymous]Another thing easy to buy are the cut up fruits in small containers- pears are great and very mushy. Saturate trader joe's shredded wheat in milk, hummus, risotto is great, pierogies cut up small when he get a llittle more chewing ability, and trader joes turkey meatballs cut up small. We were in feeding theraoy as well and all these things were recommended, Also, although I'm not a huge fan of it a lot of the canned beans, vienna sausages, etc are such soft texture and have flavor. They are good for kids to work up their way through in graduating texture.

In order to improve chewing strength ability, our oral motor specialist did some of the following--used a lot of sour gummy candy for our DS to chase around his mouth (didn't eat it but would suck sour flavor). It helped with tongue placement before he acquired a rotary chew. Also, when he got a little bigger she would stick cheerios/ puffs on his lips and he would have to try to use his mouth muscles to get the cheerio. It is incredibly hard for some kids with feeding difficulties to do that. Feeding therapy really, really helps long-term with speech articulation.[/quote]

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