Pediatric feeding disorder (PFD) refers to oral intake that is not “age-appropriate” and is associated with medical, nutritional, feeding skill, and/or psychosocial dysfunction (Goday et al., 2019). The role of behavioral health providers treating PFDs is to:

• Evaluate how both caregiver and child are responding to feeding difficulties and mealtime behaviors

• Assess why the behaviors are occurring.

• Determine how to motivate families and children

  to participate differently in the feeding process

• Identify developmentally appropriate strategies

  that promote positive mealtime experiences.