Day #28....Learning The Word Close

Today, Reese was going to learn the definition of the word CLOSE. Annette the feeder would be working with her on saying the word close and then closing her lips for the beginning of the session. Then a dry spoon would be presented and when the spoon was placed in Reese's mouth, Annette would close Reese's mouth on the spoon. The final part of the session would be water on the spoon and letting Reese close herself. If after a few seconds Reese did not close, Annette would help with closing her lips. This should prompt Reese to swallow after each spoon. Reese did OK during these sessions. Your probably thinking by now all this to get a child to eat. I never imagined anything like this in my entire life. These children deserve Disney World after achieving to goal of learning how to eat. If you ever thought about how much the tongue moves while eating to get the food back to the throat and down to the stomach. It will amaze you! I can probably say this if a thought of mine every day lately. It is something we never had to think about and something again that comes so naturally to most of us.

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