Below is a small sample of Interventions for the Home. My goal is to help the parent identify areas that need intervention and independently develope strategies to integrate into everyday life.
#1 - For the child who does not want to eat what is served at dinner.
I suggest you take the dessert, a piece of candy or some other reward (a preferred toy), and put it as far away from the child as possible (but still on the table). Everytime your kiddo takes a bite of dinner, you move the "reward" an inch closer to their plate, no more no less. You can set standards for what they have to eat to make the reward move closer. For example, a bite of vegetables. This is only for the adult setting the standards to touch. The child must be instructed that if they touch the reward it will either move back a space or will be reset to the starting point (depending on what you decide as the caregiver). Once the reward has moved all the way across the table and touched their plate, the child gets to receive (and eat if food) the reward!
