Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating: A Step-by-Step Guide for Overcoming Selective Eating, Food Aversion, and Feeding Disorders

In Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating, a family doctor specializing in childhood feeding joins forces with a speech pathologist to help you support your childs nutrition, healthy growth, and end meal-time anxiety (for your child and you) once and for all. Are you parenting a child with extreme picky eating? Do you worry your child isnt getting the nutrition he or she needs? Are you tired of fighting over food, suspect that what youve tried may be making things worse, but dont know how to help? Having a child with extreme picky eating is frustrating and sometimes scary. Children with feeding disorders, food aversions, or selective eating often experience anxiety around food, and the power struggles can negatively impact your relationship with your child. Children with extreme picky eating can also miss out on parties or camp because they cant find safe foods. But you dont have to choose between fighting over every bite and only serving a handful of safe foods for years on end. Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating offers hope, even if your child has failed feeding therapies before. After gaining a foundation of understanding of your childs challenges and the dynamics at play, youll be ready for the 5 steps (built around the clinically proven STEPS+ approachSupportive Treatment of Eating in PartnershipS) that transform feeding and meals so your child can learn to enjoy a variety of foods in the right amounts for healthy growth. Youll discover specific strategies for dealing with anxiety, low appetite, sensory challenges, autism spectrum-related feeding issues, oral motor delay, and medically-based feeding problems. Tips and exercises reinforce what youve learned, and dozens of scripts help you respond to your child in the heat of the moment, as well as to others in your childs life (grandparents or your childs teacher) as you help them support your family on this journey. This book will prove an invaluable guide to restore peace to your dinner table and help you raise a healthy eater.