Unlocking Chewing Progression in Kids

I recently had a two and a half year old that I was looking at who could really only manage crackers and pouches. No proteins, no mixed textures and when he was assessed he had really good speech clarity actually at two and a half but no rotary chew. Everything was that vertical you know and it wasn't even really the munch. He was actually mashing the food between his tongue and his palate and within a few sessions of like targeted functional chewing work, think like food play, lateralization, jaw graining he started to actually like manage ground meats and soft veggies a little bit easier to manage than like your grilled meats right. And then the secret wasn't sensory it was, it was motor. Now you can't really separate sensory from motor right. I always, I believe both are at play most of the time. However there was a big motor component here and that's why understanding the chewing progression changes everything about how you assess and how you treat.