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Just Take a Bite! Easy, Effective Answers to Food Aversions and Eating Challenges

April 4, 2024 by Jennifer Leave a Comment

Is your child a “picky” eater or a full-fledged resistant eater? Does he or she eat only 3-20 foods, refusing all others? Eat from only one food group? Gag, tantrum, or become anxious if you introduce new foods? If so, you have a resistant eater.

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Book: Just Take a Bite: Easy, Effective Answers to Food Aversions and Eating Challenges!

by Lori Ernsperger, Tania Stegen-Hanson

**Winner of an iParenting Media Award**

Learn the possible causes, when you need professional help, and how to deal with the behavior at home. Learn why “Don’t play with your food!” and “Clean your plate!” – along with many other old saws – are just plain wrong. And who said you have to eat dessert last? Get ready to have some stereotypes shattered!

Helpful chapters include:

  • Who Are Resistant eaters?
  • Oral-Motor Development
  • Environmental and Behavioral Factors Contributing to Problems with Eating
  • Sensory-Based and Motor-Based Problems Affecting the Resistant Eater
  • Motor-Based Eating Problems vs. Sensory-Based Eating Problems
  • Designing and Implementing a Comprehensive Treatment Plan
  • Environmental Controls
  • Gastrointestinal, Physical and Oral-Motor Development
  • Stages of Sensory Development for Eating
  • A Recipe for Success

To purchase, click the image/link below!

Just Take a Bite: Easy, Effective Answers to Food Aversions and Eating Challenges!Just Take a Bite: Easy, Effective Answers to Food Aversions and Eating Challenges!Just Take a Bite: Easy, Effective Answers to Food Aversions and Eating Challenges!

 

Recommended Reading

  • Feeding Challenges with Picky Eaters, Sensory Kiddos
  • Supportive Strategies Will Help Your “Picky Eater” Deal with Food Aversions
  • How to Deal with Picky Eaters
  • Why Your Toddler is a Picky Eater

Pediatric Feeding Resources

  • Pediatric Feeding 101
  • Feeding Oral Toys and Tools
  • Game Changing Sensory Strategies for Picky Eaters
  • Pediatric Feeding 101
  • Mealtime Works Lite – Help for Dinnertime

For more eating aversion support:

Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating: A Step-by-Step Guide for Overcoming Selective Eating, Food Aversion, and Feeding DisordersHelping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating: A Step-by-Step Guide for Overcoming Selective Eating, Food Aversion, and Feeding DisordersHelping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating: A Step-by-Step Guide for Overcoming Selective Eating, Food Aversion, and Feeding DisordersCognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: Children, Adolescents, and AdultsCognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: Children, Adolescents, and AdultsCognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: Children, Adolescents, and AdultsStories of Extreme Picky Eating: Children with Severe Food Aversions and the Solutions That Helped ThemStories of Extreme Picky Eating: Children with Severe Food Aversions and the Solutions That Helped ThemStories of Extreme Picky Eating: Children with Severe Food Aversions and the Solutions That Helped ThemJust Take a Bite: Easy, Effective Answers to Food Aversions and Eating Challenges!Just Take a Bite: Easy, Effective Answers to Food Aversions and Eating Challenges!Just Take a Bite: Easy, Effective Answers to Food Aversions and Eating Challenges!Color Taste Texture: Recipes for Picky Eaters, Those with Food Aversion, and Anyone Who's Ever Cringed at FoodColor Taste Texture: Recipes for Picky Eaters, Those with Food Aversion, and Anyone Who’s Ever Cringed at FoodColor Taste Texture: Recipes for Picky Eaters, Those with Food Aversion, and Anyone Who's Ever Cringed at Food

 

About Author Lori Ernsperger

Ernsperger has more than 17 years experience working in the public schools as a teacher, administrator and a behavioral consultant. She has had extensive training working with students who have behavior disorders, particularly those on the autism spectrum.

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