Pediatric Feeding Therapy for Infants, Toddlers & Children
Mealtime should feel like connection, not a battle. If your child struggles with eating, swallowing, or accepting new foods, you’re not alone, and it’s not your fault. We’re here to help make mealtimes calmer and food feel safer.
ABOUT THE SERVICE
What Is Feeding Therapy?
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Feeding therapy helps infants, toddlers, and children who experience difficulty with eating, swallowing, or participating in mealtimes. These challenges can look very different from family to family. A newborn who struggles to latch or coordinate sucking and swallowing, a toddler with an extremely limited food repertoire, a child who gags or vomits at the sight or smell of certain textures, or a school-age child whose anxiety around food is affecting their social life and school day.
Speech-language pathologists are the primary specialists trained to evaluate and treat pediatric feeding and swallowing disorders. At Communiverse, our feeding therapy is play-based, child-led, and paced to your child’s comfort. We never force food. We work alongside your child to build positive associations with eating, expanding what they can tolerate, reducing anxiety around mealtimes, and helping the whole family feel more at ease. Sessions can take place in our office, at your home, or at school, wherever mealtime actually happens.
WHO WE HELP
We See Families Like Yours Every Day
Infants with Feeding or Swallowing Difficulties
Newborns and young infants who struggle with latching, bottle feeding, coordinating suck-swallow-breathe, or who show signs of aspiration or reflux affecting feeding.
Children with Medical or Developmental Conditions Affecting Eating
Children with autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, cleft palate, or other conditions where feeding challenges are part of a broader developmental or medical picture.
Children with Sensory-Based Feeding Challenges
Children who gag, retch, or have strong aversive reactions to food smells, textures, temperatures, or appearances — often connected to sensory processing differences or anxiety.
Toddlers and Young Children with Extreme Picky Eating
Children whose food repertoire has narrowed significantly, who refuse entire food groups or textures, or whose eating limitations are affecting nutrition, growth, or family mealtimes.
OUR APPROACH
How We Work
Child-Led, Never Forced
Pressure and force have no place in feeding therapy. We follow your child’s lead, building comfort and trust at every step. Progress is measured in reduced anxiety and expanded tolerance, not in how many bites were taken.
Caregivers Are Partners
We include caregivers in every session. Because skills built in therapy only stick when they’re practiced in real life — and you’re part of making that happen.
Where Mealtime Happens
Feeding challenges are best addressed where they actually occur. We offer sessions in our office, at your home, and at school, so the environment where your child needs to eat is the environment where we do the work.
Therapy That Fits Your Life
DELIVERY OPTIONS
1. In Our Office
Conshohocken, PA
1958 Butler Pike, Suite 402
A welcoming, dedicated therapy space.
2. Via Telehealth
Available statewide across Pennsylvania as well as other states.
Same quality care — no commute required.
3. Home, School & Community
We come to you — wherever our clients learn, play, grow and work.
If mealtime is regularly stressful, your child’s diet is extremely limited, they’re losing weight or not gaining appropriately, or you’ve been told to 'just keep offering' and nothing is changing those are signs worth taking seriously. You don’t need to wait for a crisis. Many families come to us saying they wish they’d reached out sooner. If you’re concerned, call us, the evaluation will give you a clear picture either way.
Pediatricians are often right. Some children do outgrow mild pickiness. But if the pattern is intensifying, the food list is shrinking, or your child’s anxiety around food is growing, waiting may not be the right call. Feeding difficulties tied to sensory processing, oral motor challenges, or early experiences around food don’t always resolve on their own. Trust your instincts. A feeding evaluation is low-risk and gives you real information.
Never. We do not use force, pressure, or coercive approaches. Our therapy is built on trust and your child’s comfort and sense of safety are the foundation everything else is built on. The goal is to reduce the anxiety and aversion around food so that eating can become a neutral or even positive experience. Progress looks like a child who is calmer at the table, more curious about food, and gradually more willing to engage — on their own terms.
Yes! For many children, it should. Feeding challenges are most effectively addressed where mealtimes actually happen. We offer in-home and school-based sessions alongside our office visits. This is especially valuable for children who are more regulated in familiar environments, or for families who want the therapist to observe and support real mealtime routines rather than replicating them in a clinic.
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Ready to Get Started?
We’d love to learn more about what you’re looking for. Reach out and we’ll take it from there — no pressure, just a conversation.
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