Pediatric Feeding & Swallowing Program
                                                                                                         Mealtime Groups
                                                                                        
                                                                                         Is Mealtime difficult for you and your child?
 
At Peer Projects-Therapy from the Heart, our feeding and swallowing program is designed to help children from infancy to adolescence develop skills for positive and successful mealtime experiences.   Individual and group services are available to support each child and their family.
 
What is the Mealtime Group?
It is a peer-group mealtime that guides a child’s experience with a range of foods utilizing the steps to eating. Children enjoy cooking and eating while developing feeding and oral motor skills and expanding their food repertoire. Groups are offered for children 18 mths. of age through adolescence.
 
Who would benefit from the Mealtime Group?
Children with a range of diagnosis who may exhibit the following:

• picky eater with less than 25 foods or only the same foods
• poor nutritional intake or poor weight gain
• G-tube or ng tube fed
• difficult mealtime behavior
• food refusal or aversion delayed feeding skills including difficulty drinking from a cup, biting or chewing different textures
   
  Deirdre Mulcahy Patch, MS, CCC-SLP coordinates this program, bringing over 26 years of experience in feeding and swallowing difficulties. 
  Please contact her at (978) 712-0003 or deirdre@pptfth.com.