The SOS (Sequential Oral Sensory) Approach to Feeding is our founder Chloe's core specialty — the methodology she built Food First Therapy around. Developed by Dr. Kay Toomey and grounded in over 30 years of clinical research, SOS is an evidence-based, transdisciplinary program that helps children who struggle with eating learn to accept new foods through play-based, systematic desensitisation.

Unlike approaches that pressure children to eat, SOS follows 32 steps from simply tolerating a food's presence in the room, to interacting with it, smelling it, touching it, and eventually tasting and eating it — all at the child's pace. The program integrates seven areas of human functioning: organ systems, muscles (including oral motor), sensory integration, learning and behaviour, development, nutrition, and environment. This holistic assessment ensures we identify and address the root cause of your child's feeding difficulties, not just the surface behaviours.