Feeding Therapy is an intervention that focuses on the habilitation or rehabilitation of the swallow/oral and/or feeding efficiency of a child to increase the safe and efficient intake by mouth.  Feeding therapy may be administered by a licensed speech therapist or occupational therapist depending on the underlying dysfunction.  Speech therapists are specialized in the treatment and rehabilitation of swallowing disorders affecting oral-pharyngeal dysfunction and disorders of oral and facial musculature that place a patient at risk for choking/aspiration and respiratory distress.  Occupational therapists will focus on feeding disorders associated with sensory/behavioral disorders of feeding and/or oral functional disorders which do not impact pharyngeal swallow function. These children are at risk of weight loss, failure to thrive and food rejections due to poor manipulation or tolerance.