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
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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
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 DisordersCognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: Children, Adolescents, and Adults
Stories of Extreme Picky Eating: Children with Severe Food Aversions and the Solutions That Helped Them
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 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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