by Cheri Fraker, CCC/SLP
Cheri Fraker, CCC/SLP, is an ASHA certified pediatric speech language pathologist and oral feeding specialist. Cheri teaches the listener about her PreChaining and Food Chaining therapy programs, she provides many tips for parents and therapists, and explains how to treat infants and children struggling with severe feeding and swallowing problems. Cheri discusses complex treatment programs to avoid or reducing the severity of the most challenging pediatric feeding disorders. Cheri also offers mentoring services in season 2, sharing her thirty seven years of experience with the audience.
Language
🇺🇲
Publishing Since
8/30/2022
Email Addresses
1 available
Phone Numbers
0 available
July 23, 2024
Today I discuss my work with a seven year old child who was tube fed starting at age 4 months. He had years of therapy but did not make progress and even with tube feeds, weight gain was poor. I had to unravel his past, explore his prior diagnostics, win his trust and form a plan. In two years, we reached our goals with PreChaining and Food Chaining therapy, nutritional rehab and a comprehensive feeding team care plan. Want to know how we did it? Listen…
July 17, 2024
This one is all about how I do my therapy. I talk you through what you would see if you observed my sessions. I describe in detail how to triage feeding disorders, what to say and do as you start your treatment program, how to troubleshoot problems and avoid shut down. I describe what to say when as you start Chaining. I describe how to correctly design a Food Chain. Food education, surprise foods and anchor foods matter. Use the rating scales the right way. I also share with you all the how to’s I have developed in my 37 years as a therapist. Food Chaining techniques work when implemented correctly. Learn how to support and lead a child through sensory exploration in your therapy sessions. Learn how to comfort and encourage them in creative ways that allow them to open up and put fear and aversion down. I talk about how to easily bring new foods to them. I also talk family care and I discuss trauma and fear and the wounds parents carry when their child struggles to eat.
July 15, 2024
Overcoming picky or problem eating or treating ARFID requires you to taste new foods. That is a tall order. It can be frightening just thinking about it. So how do you learn about a new food and try a bite and feel safe? How do you find new foods that you will actually enjoy? Food Chaining creates chains, the links from the foods you like to eat to new foods that are very similar. We stack the deck in your favor by having you learn to feel good while trying new foods in a new, systematic and safe way. New foods are selected that are very similar in taste, texture and temperature to the foods you eat every day. These modified foods are highly likely to be accepted because they are foods that you are highly likely to like. That is what this is all about, finding new foods you like over and over and over. This two part in one podcast is a detailed guide that is full of advice for the patient, the family and the therapy team. Try Food Chaining, form a plan, and change your eating gently and well. It will change your life.
Pod Engine is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected with any of the podcasts displayed on this platform. We operate independently as a podcast discovery and analytics service.
All podcast artwork, thumbnails, and content displayed on this page are the property of their respective owners and are protected by applicable copyright laws. This includes, but is not limited to, podcast cover art, episode artwork, show descriptions, episode titles, transcripts, audio snippets, and any other content originating from the podcast creators or their licensors.
We display this content under fair use principles and/or implied license for the purpose of podcast discovery, information, and commentary. We make no claim of ownership over any podcast content, artwork, or related materials shown on this platform. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are the property of their respective owners.
While we strive to ensure all content usage is properly authorized, if you are a rights holder and believe your content is being used inappropriately or without proper authorization, please contact us immediately at [email protected] for prompt review and appropriate action, which may include content removal or proper attribution.
By accessing and using this platform, you acknowledge and agree to respect all applicable copyright laws and intellectual property rights of content owners. Any unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or commercial use of the content displayed on this platform is strictly prohibited.
