Hi, I was in the same boat until few months ago. My son only survived on milk. He had so many oral sensory issues. We started taking him to a feeding Therapy here in CA when he was approaching his 3rd birthday. The first few visits were very hard as he didn’t let therapist touch him anywhere by his mouth. So the therapist asked me to order Z-Vibes, which I did. So first couple of months they kept playing with them with very basic baby food stuff. 1 year down the road, my son eats Chicken Nuggets, Bread with peanut butter, waffles, pancakes, oranges, apples, strawberries, and few more stuff now. We still go to the therapist and working on additional stuff. Our biggest challenge now is to brush his teeth, specially the backside without a tantrum:(
Hope this helps!!

Hi Everyone, he has mada a progress! He is eating 2 dishes now: one that he always eats and the other the one that he usef to eat.
I bought a plate with 3 divisions, i let him eat the one he likes then i'll say then this one, kiss and smell.. he did...then he opened his mouth eating it until he ate 2-3 bites...and finished it. But i have to do that chaining..it worked. Hopefully I can introduce other foods he used to like

We were going to do it but the school and therapists wanted to work with my daughter before going that route. My daughter is in residential so she works with someone directly all day and the school has a medical staff so they worked with her. It is much better now and she is 10 but she really didn't try new things much until she was 8.

When we have her home on the weekends and holidays we just do what the school does to help reinforce things. What helped a lot was having her sit with other children so she could see what they eat and then present it to her and let her try at her own pace. The teachers also practiced with putting intensity to her mouth. She also wouldn't use them before 8. We let her smell and touch things even if she wouldn't eat then which helped as well.

The dr said SOS approach is a very effective way for feeding diffuculties. I looked online and it is a 1wk training, preferably for Speech , OT Only in a few states do they offer it,I would love to attend

Hi, he wouldn't open his mouth to any oral chew toy, even the nuk brush. So challenging