The Pediatric Sensory Food Inventory & Parent Guide eBook
Subtitle: A Step-by-Step, Stress-Free Guide to Expanding Your Child’s Diet using the SOS Approach
Is mealtime a daily battlefield in your home? Does your child refuse whole food groups, gag at new textures, or restrict their diet to under 15 predictable foods?
You aren’t dealing with a stubborn toddler—you are navigating a sensory processing mismatch.
Created by pediatric Occupational Therapists, this comprehensive digital guide translates complex clinical frameworks like Dr. Kay Toomey’s Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach into an actionable, gentle roadmap for parents. Discover how to accurately identify your child’s unique sensory profile, eliminate mealtime anxiety, and systematically introduce new foods without tears, bribes, or power struggles.
What’s Inside the Guide?
The Sensory Food Inventory Worksheet: Decode exactly why your child rejects foods by tracking texture, brand specificity, temperature, and oral-motor red flags.
The Food Chaining Blueprint: Learn how to create simple, science-backed "sensory bridges" using foods your child already loves to safely introduce new options.
The Psychology of Pressure-Free Mealtimes: Master therapist-approved vocabulary and scripts that lower your child's nervous system arousal so their throat can physically relax to chew and swallow.
3 High-Quality Visual Tools Included
This eBook doesn't just give you theories—it provides professional visual assets you can print, laminate, and stick on your refrigerator today:
1. 🔍 The Bite-Size Reference Visual
A clear, scaled infographic demonstrating safe, developmentally appropriate food portioning and cutting dimensions. It eliminates choking anxieties and helps match food sizes to your child's current oral-motor capabilities.
2. 🪜 The 32-Step Feeding Hierarchy Chart
Based on the SOS Approach, this beautifully designed chart maps out the six major milestones of eating (Tolerating, Interacting, Smelling, Touching, Tasting, and Swallowing). It helps you track micro-wins, proving that even a lick, touch, or smell is measurable therapeutic progress!
3. 📝 The Daily Feeding Log & Tracker
A streamlined, data-driven daily tracker designed to help you pinpoint environmental triggers, note texture preferences, document successful food chains, and track mealtime behavioral trends over time.
Product Details
Format: Instant Downloadable PDF (Optimized for mobile, tablet, and home printing)
Target Audience: Parents of toddlers and school-aged children navigating picky eating, sensory defensiveness, or oral-motor feeding delays.