This training provides five things you can do to support your Pathologically Demand Avoidant (PDA), Autistic, or otherwise demand avoidant child in their eating, espeically if more traditional behavioral, exposure, or play-based approaches haven't been successful.
We talk about five things:
Understanding whether eating if your child's "Stickiest" basic need (vs. toileting, sleeping, or hygeine) and whether control coalesces around eating.
Looking at eating *first* through the "autonomy and nervous system" lens, rather than first the Sensory Processing lens.
Managing your own anxiety and energy around eating.
Accommodations including but not limited to: choice, offerings, use of language, Novelty, and buffets.
How to adapt therapeutic protocols - like the SOS Feeding protocol ([ Ссылка ]) - for Pathological Demand Avoidance or a demand avoidant child.
For courses and support, you can find services at At Peace Parents
Citations and sources:
For more on Declarative Language, please see the "Declarative Language Handbook" by Linda K. Murphy. ([ Ссылка ])
Term "strewing" coined by Sandra Dodd in the unschooling community. ([ Ссылка ])
✸Social media
Instagram: [ Ссылка ]
TikTok: [ Ссылка ]
Podcast for parents "PDA Parents": [ Ссылка ]
Podcast for parents "At Peace Parents": [ Ссылка ]
✸More resources
Free resources for parents (Including #actuallyautistic pages to check out): [ Ссылка ]
Courses, Programs, Coaching and Consulting: [ Ссылка ]
✸Topics: PDA, Masking, Autism, Pathologicaldemandavoidance
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