What this means is that where typical children move slowly from liquids to mushy to lumpy to pieces to regular mouth-friendly proportioned foods, children with SPD struggle to move past mushy stage as food become more difficult to navigate in the mouth, chew and swallow. having an existing high gag reflex issue.Many children with SPD relate the pings of hunger to pain which can result in negative perception of eating. inability to feel full (resulting in throwing up) or even to feel hungry at all.poor proprioception or dyspraxia where a child needs a tremendous amount of sensation in his mouth to feel the food resulting in stuffing (shoveling food in to excess without swallowing).Not only does this create a gagging sensation in itself, pieces of food are often left in the mouth that havent been moved back far enough resulting in textural triggers as well as gagging. poor oral-motor control where the tongue isnt able to maneuver the food around in the mouth properly in order to swallow.the oral-motor skills needed for chewing are also poor because his brain isnt giving his mouth the signal to chew, orto tell him when his mouth has enough in it, or even that he needs to swallow before putting more food in. weak oral muscles (mouth, jaw and tongue) which not only prevents a child from chewing food effectively, but also causes him to avoid any foods that are too textural (chewy, crunchy, lumpy, etc.) or that require the skill of more rotary-style form of chewing, such as when eating meat, where hed use the back part of the teeth and mouth.In addition to sensory defensiveness (mostly in the olfactory, gustatory and tactile systems), the action of eating can be interfered with due to other unseen issues such as: Children diagnosed with sensory issues, most specifically Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), arent able to enjoy eating as much as the rest of us do.
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