Summer! Ten luxurious weeks of spitting watermelon seeds, munching on veggies straight from the garden and crafting the perfect s’more over the campfire. As an SLP who focuses on feeding challenges in children, summer food skills are foremost in my mind this time of year. However, once a week in the summer, my little clients and their families will focus on preparing to eat in the school cafeteria. Before you know it, it will be mid-August and those little munch bugs will joining their friends at elementary school, or perhaps all-day kindergarten. For kids who are about to go to their very first day of school, it also means their very first day in a school cafeteria, and that can be quite overwhelming, especially for a child in feeding therapy
