Model
Parenting Feeding style
Attachment
Stress/anxiety
Personality Temperamen
What is relationship?
Food and mealtime experiences
Medical history and experience
What is Enjoyment and Experience?
Foods such as mac and cheese, microwavable child meals, soft chicken nuggets, french fries
What are Soft Mechanical (mixed texture)?
Same as soft mechanical,
chew in rotary pattern
Engagement, Regulation, Education, Participation
What is Family empowerment?
For oral exploration only
Raw carrot sticks, celery sticks, bell pepper strips
What is Hard Munchaules?
Foods such as cheerios, thin pretzels, ritz crackers, saltine crackers, cookies
What are Hard Mechanicals (simple)?
Everything plus lateral movement of tongue, vertical and diagonal jaw movement,
jaw strength to break pieces up
What are oral motor skills for chopped foods?
TEAM mentality
PCP, RN, Dietician
What is refer and connect?
Foods which will dissolve with spit only, no pressure needed
Graham crackers, Fruit loops, baby cookies, town crackers
What is Meltable Hard Solids?
Suck pattern
Lip and jaw closure to take food from spoon with lips
What are oral motor skills for Thin Puree?
Close lips and keep food in mouth
Bite through food
Jaw strength to grind
What are oral motor skills for regular foods?
Emotional regulation
Sensory Processing
Motor Skills
Developmental Level
Co-morbidities
What is Abilities?
Food such as avocado, kiwi, overcooked squashes?
What are soft cubes?
Suck and Swallow
Take food from spoon with lips
No gag
What are oral motor skills for Thick Puree?
Social environment
Physical envrionment
Mealtime structure
Motivation
Cultural beliefs
What is mealtime factors?
Food that break apart in the mouth very easily
Muffin, soft pastas, cubed lunch meats, thin deli meats
Swallow without gag
Close lips while swallowing
Remove food from spoon with lips
Up and down munching movement
What are oral motor skills for mashed lumpy and soft mechanical foods?