Last Friday we took Ben to the speech pathologist for his eating. This was the same speech path we took Ethan to the day before….
Ben has always had trouble chewing his food. He’s been to the speech pathologist once before when he was about 9months old. Recently, he has developed a few techniques to eat his food. He either seems to shove all his food in his mouth, then end up with a large mouthful of food that takes him ages to swallow, or he’ll use the next mouthful of food to push the food in his mouth down his throat. She has told us to really control how much food Ben gets at a time, and to use a mirror so he can see him self eating. We tell him to make sure his mouth is empty before taking the next bite. So far, this technique is quite good, but he does seem to play with his mirror too much!
We’ll give it a few weeks and see how he goes.
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