Hallie Bulkin explains why two kids with identical eating habits might need completely different help. A child eating only white crunchy carbs could have sensory sensitivities or weak oral muscles. Misdiagnosing the cause means treating the symptom instead of fixing what's actually wrong.
The next thing is the sensory side of thing and the whole, like, sensory versus, like, motor, like, root cause analysis, if you will. Like, do you have a picky eater who only eats white, crunchy carbs? Is it sensory or oral motor fatigue or is it both? Right. Is it a sensory kid who hates to brush their teeth? Maybe? Do they have undiagnosed tethered oral tissues? Maybe it's causing discomfort. Maybe they just have limited range of motion in their tongue. Right. There could be a whole host of things going on, and so we kind of need to dive into that. You. You need to know the difference, otherwise your treatment plan is going to miss the mark. Now, that said, we do not treat things in silos because everything is so highly interconnected. But you still got to figure out, like, what is the symptom and what is the root of the symptom, like, what is leading to that? Because oftentimes what is taught in most courses is what are the symptoms? Okay, let's treat the symptoms.
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