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Private Pay Feeding Therapy in Palm Beach County
Help Your Child Eat With Confidence
Pediatric feeding therapy built around your child's real meals at home, with no insurance approval or diagnosis needed to begin.
When Mealtimes Stop
Feeling Normal
Most parents notice it long before anyone puts a name to it.
The list of foods your child will accept keeps getting shorter. Dinner takes an hour. You are packing the same three things every day and quietly worrying about what happens next year.
You do not have to wait for that to turn into a diagnosis before asking for help.
Our feeding therapists start by figuring out why eating is hard for your child, then build a plan around the meals your family actually eats.
What Feeding Therapy
Can Help With
Eating is one of the most complex things a child does. When one piece is hard, every meal feels harder.
Picky Eating & Shrinking Diets
When a child only accepts a handful of foods, we widen that list one small, manageable step at a time instead of forcing new foods.
Chewing & Oral Motor Skills
Biting, chewing, and moving food around the mouth take real coordination. We build the lip, tongue, and jaw strength behind it.
Texture & Sensory Sensitivity
Wet, crunchy, mixed, or strong-smelling foods can feel genuinely unbearable. Therapy makes them tolerable before it makes them familiar.
Bottles, Purees & Table Foods
Help for infants and toddlers who are struggling with the bottle, stalling on purees, or not moving into table foods.
Gagging, Coughing & Swallowing Safety
If your child gags, coughs, or seems to struggle with liquids and textures, we look at what is happening and how to make eating safer.
Stressful Meals & Family Routines
Practical structure for the dinner table, so meals stop being a negotiation for everyone in the house.
Why Families Choose Private Pay
Private pay simply removes the waiting. You decide when your child starts, and we focus on what actually helps at the table.
Start Without Authorization
No approval process, no waiting list dictated by a claims department. You can begin when you are ready.
No Diagnosis Needed
A worry is reason enough. You do not need a label on your child to get support with eating.
Goals That Match Your Table
We work toward the foods your family eats and the routines you keep, not a generic checklist.
Matched to the Right Therapist
Infant feeding, sensory aversion, and oral motor work each call for different experience. We match accordingly.
Kids Only, All Day
Pediatrics is all we do. Every therapist on our team spends their day helping children eat, move, and communicate.
How Feeding Therapy Works Here
No two children arrive at the table with the same history, so we start by understanding yours.
01.
Hear the Full Story
What your child eats, what they refuse, how long meals take, and what you have already tried.
02.
Find Out Why Eating Is Hard
Your therapist looks at oral motor skills, sensory responses, and mealtime patterns to pinpoint the real barrier.
03.
Set Goals You Can Picture
Specific, reachable milestones, like accepting a new texture or finishing a meal without a fight.
04.
Build Skills Through Play
Sessions stay playful and pressure-free while building chewing, swallowing, and tolerance for new foods.
05.
Take It Home
You leave with strategies you can use tonight, so progress shows up at your table and not just in the clinic.
A Palm Beach County Team That Knows Kids
Progressive Pediatric Therapy has supported families across Palm Beach County with
occupational,
physical,
speech, and feeding therapy.
Feeding rarely sits on its own. It often connects to sensory processing, motor skills, or communication, and we treat the whole child accordingly.
That means understanding what makes eating hard, what your child already does well, and where the next realistic step is.
If mealtimes have been a struggle, a conversation is a good place to start.