Making Sense of Selective Eating: This Child in This Moment

*** Originally aired: 8/7/2024 ***

Guest: Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, MEd, FAOTA

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Marsha Dunn Klein is the guest featured on this Making Sense of Selective Eating episode. Listen in as she shares the importance of meeting a child where they are at by considering all factors that can shape an individual’s eating experience, including sensory differences, past experiences, trauma, and relationships. Marsha also shares the importance of intrinsic motivation and her journey of redefining the “try it” concept and rethinking what exposure and desensitization mean to her over the course of her career.

About the Guest: Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, MEd, FAOTA, is a pediatric occupational therapist who has spent nearly five decades specializing in feeding infants and young children. She received her bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy from Boston University’s Sargent College and her Master of Education from the University of Arizona. She has co-authored Pre-Feeding Skills, First and Second Editions, Homemade Blended Formula Handbook, and Mealtime Participation Guide with Suzanne Evans Morris, as well as Feeding and Nutrition for the Child with Special Needs with Tracy Delaney. Her most recent book, Anxious Eaters, Anxious Mealtimes: Practical and Compassionate Strategies for Mealtime Peace, was published last year. Having sold her share in her pediatric feeding clinic, Mealtime Connections, Marsha now spends her time presenting, writing, and consulting both nationally and internationally—though since the pandemic, this work has been done virtually via webinars. She founded and remains active in a nonprofit that supports families of children who struggle to eat. Marsha is a food celebrator. When not feeding children or supporting their families, she enjoys gardening, quilting, cooking, and dreaming of traveling again.

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