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[quote=Anonymous]I feel your frustration. We are in a similar situation with our SN 2 year old. Our kid qualified for early intervention speech services, but since his therapist is also a feeding therapist, we split our sessions between speech and feeding therapy. It’s helped somewhat. The biggest takeaways for me were to stop pressuring him into trying new foods and to stop trying to trick him into eating new foods (like by mixing new foods into things he already eats). We just put the new foods on the tray with his preferred foods, then ignore him and try to pretend we don’t care whether he eats the new foods or not. He usually won’t eat the new foods, but sometimes he will. When we started six months ago he would  only eat purées, but now he occasionally eats pasta, rice, beans, and ground meat. He is a more adventurous eater at daycare, which apparently is not uncommon. Maybe it’s the peer pressure? Until he starts eating more, we are giving him PediaSure to increase his calories, as well as mixing formula into his daily morning oatmeal. [/quote]

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