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Jackieone's avatar

Perhaps you may have insight on this situation: child with autism, age 3, only eats wide variety of meat, vegetables, fruit, yogurt, milk. Never grains, anything sugary. Always drinks water, coconut water, never juices. All foods home cooked, not packaged. Just introduced some rice in last month. Makes wide variety of sounds, but does not talk. Any suggestions?

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Jennifer Reynolds's avatar

The advice about dietary changes to help non-verbal, autistic children is great, but what does one do when the child will not eat anything but white bread of a specific brand, milk of a specific brand, juice boxes of a specific brand and container design, Milano cookies, potato chips of a specific brand and every now and then, a PB&J sandwich. DON’T try changing a brand on her, she knows. And DON’T try adding anything to the juice, she knows and will thrown the full container away. This has been going on for YEARS and no one can understand how the child grows and has good strength. “Feeding therapy” resulted in major negative behavioral changes. What to do, short of tying her down and inserting a feeding tube? She is now 9. As a toddler, she ate applesauce, toddler fruit and vegetable pouchies and eggs, but since about age 4, the diet is what is described above.

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