(502) 419-7811Feeding Therapy
Feeding therapy is a type of treatment designed to help individuals with difficulties related to eating, swallowing, or food intake.This is commonly used for children, especially those with conditions that impact their ability to eat, such as developmental delays, ARFID, sensory issues, medical conditions, or physical impairments.
Feeding therapy typically involves working with an occupational therapist, speech-language pathologist, or a feeding specialist who can assess the underlying issues and help the child improve their eating habits, address sensory sensitivities, develop the oral motor skills needed for chewing and swallowing ,or expand food preferences.
How We Can Help
- Improving the ability to chew and swallow safely
- Reducing food aversions or picky eating behaviors
- Encouraging a wider range of food textures and flavors
- Strengthening the muscles involved in eating
- Reflex Integration, those that impact our eating
- Sensory Processing, expanding a child’s tolerance
- Oral Motor Development
- Food School, Lunch Bunch and Dinner Clubs
The Mills Academy Advantage
Mills Academy is a small transitional private school in Louisville, KY founded in 2012 for children diagnosed with ADHD and/or Anxiety with accompanying learning differences in reading, writing, or math. We provide an all-inclusive, collaborative approach to your child’s learning. Our mission is to create an environment that challenges our students academically, while continuing to meet the needs of their unique learning abilities. Mills Academy provides a nurturing and supportive environment, allowing children to work to their highest potential. Mills Academy provides intense academic and therapeutic interventions, while keeping with an advanced curriculum to enrich the more traditional learning styles. These interventions are necessary to help foster our student’s ability to be independent learners, which is the key to a successful transition into mainstream education.