SOS Feeding Therapy Exam 2025 With
100% Correct Answers
True/False: In the SOS method, it's okay for a child to chew the food up and then spit it out without
swallowing it. - correct answers ✔✔True. Always praise whatever steps they do.
What percentage of children struggle with feeding disorders before the age of 5? - correct answers
✔✔20%
Why are picky eaters important to identify below the age of 5? - correct answers ✔✔Because they are in
an important developmental age and they will have lower body mass index if they aren't eating properly
What are some red flags indicative of a potential feeding disorder? - correct answers ✔✔*Inability to
transition to baby food by 10 months
*Inability to transition to solid food by 12 months
*Inability to transition to cup by 16 months
-Aversion to foods in a specific texture or food group
-Less than 20 foods on their menu
-Cries and arches back most meals
-Family stress about child eating or not eating
-Parent report that child is difficult to feed
-Parent with a history of an eating disorder + child with poor weight gain
-Ongoing poor weight gain
-Ongoing coughing, choking, gagging, during meals
-Ongoing vomiting
-Gastro nasal reflux
-History of a traumatic choking incident
-History of respiratory/cardiac problems
,What is the reflex called when children arch their back to the right due to severe reflux? - correct
answers ✔✔Sandifers Reflex
What is one of the important issues with the new DSM-5 criteria for feeding disorders? - correct answers
✔✔-They lump feeding disorders and eating disorders together into one category
-Eating disorders are more psychological, body image.
-Feeding disorders can have a medical basis and/or a behavioral basis that arose from medical issues.
-Eating disorder clinics are like bootcamps where the child is forced to eat a certain amount or they get a
feeding tube. That method doesn't work for feeding disorders.
What is habituation? - correct answers ✔✔-The ability to appropriately modulate arousal induced by
internal or external sensory experience
-Protective response
-Involves closing down the nervous system against too much stimulation from the outside.
What is an adaptive response? - correct answers ✔✔-Being able to achieve a balance between the
capacity to become alert and evaluate and assess a new stimulus and the capacity to withdraw interest
through inhibition of sensory systems.
What type of person is habituation critical for? - correct answers ✔✔NICU babies
-Essential to a newborns capacity for survival
-Helps a person deal with potentially overwhelming demands on the sensory system
What is sensory integration? - correct answers ✔✔The ability to take in information from all of the
senses, process that information and then produce an adaptive response
What are the three sensory modulation patterns? - correct answers ✔✔1. Sensory Over-Responsive
2. Sensory Under-Responsive
3. Sensory Craving/Seeker
, What does it mean to be sensory over-responsive? - correct answers ✔✔-Active in their avoidance of
non preferred sensory inputs
-Will actively avoid undesired situations (e.g. tantrums)
What are some things a child that is sensory over-responsive might do? - correct answers ✔✔-Avoid
looking at food or caregiver
-Push chair away from the table
-Push food off the table
-Cough/gag/vomit
-Hold nose/turn head away
-Make faces at the sight or smell of food
-Spits when food touches his lips
-Shudders at the sight, smell or taste of food
-Avoid eye contact
If a child gags at the sight or smell of food is it considered a hyper sensitive gag reflex? - correct answers
✔✔No, it's because of sensory issues.
What does it mean to be sensory under-responsive? - correct answers ✔✔-Slow to respond, difficult to
arouse, may withdraw
-Reduced responses to stimuli
What are some things a child that is sensory under-responsive might do? - correct answers ✔✔-
Withdraw from the situation
-Stare into space/minimal reactions
-Humming/rocking
-Overstuffs mouth
-Pocketing of food
-Swallows food whole or minimal chewing noted
100% Correct Answers
True/False: In the SOS method, it's okay for a child to chew the food up and then spit it out without
swallowing it. - correct answers ✔✔True. Always praise whatever steps they do.
What percentage of children struggle with feeding disorders before the age of 5? - correct answers
✔✔20%
Why are picky eaters important to identify below the age of 5? - correct answers ✔✔Because they are in
an important developmental age and they will have lower body mass index if they aren't eating properly
What are some red flags indicative of a potential feeding disorder? - correct answers ✔✔*Inability to
transition to baby food by 10 months
*Inability to transition to solid food by 12 months
*Inability to transition to cup by 16 months
-Aversion to foods in a specific texture or food group
-Less than 20 foods on their menu
-Cries and arches back most meals
-Family stress about child eating or not eating
-Parent report that child is difficult to feed
-Parent with a history of an eating disorder + child with poor weight gain
-Ongoing poor weight gain
-Ongoing coughing, choking, gagging, during meals
-Ongoing vomiting
-Gastro nasal reflux
-History of a traumatic choking incident
-History of respiratory/cardiac problems
,What is the reflex called when children arch their back to the right due to severe reflux? - correct
answers ✔✔Sandifers Reflex
What is one of the important issues with the new DSM-5 criteria for feeding disorders? - correct answers
✔✔-They lump feeding disorders and eating disorders together into one category
-Eating disorders are more psychological, body image.
-Feeding disorders can have a medical basis and/or a behavioral basis that arose from medical issues.
-Eating disorder clinics are like bootcamps where the child is forced to eat a certain amount or they get a
feeding tube. That method doesn't work for feeding disorders.
What is habituation? - correct answers ✔✔-The ability to appropriately modulate arousal induced by
internal or external sensory experience
-Protective response
-Involves closing down the nervous system against too much stimulation from the outside.
What is an adaptive response? - correct answers ✔✔-Being able to achieve a balance between the
capacity to become alert and evaluate and assess a new stimulus and the capacity to withdraw interest
through inhibition of sensory systems.
What type of person is habituation critical for? - correct answers ✔✔NICU babies
-Essential to a newborns capacity for survival
-Helps a person deal with potentially overwhelming demands on the sensory system
What is sensory integration? - correct answers ✔✔The ability to take in information from all of the
senses, process that information and then produce an adaptive response
What are the three sensory modulation patterns? - correct answers ✔✔1. Sensory Over-Responsive
2. Sensory Under-Responsive
3. Sensory Craving/Seeker
, What does it mean to be sensory over-responsive? - correct answers ✔✔-Active in their avoidance of
non preferred sensory inputs
-Will actively avoid undesired situations (e.g. tantrums)
What are some things a child that is sensory over-responsive might do? - correct answers ✔✔-Avoid
looking at food or caregiver
-Push chair away from the table
-Push food off the table
-Cough/gag/vomit
-Hold nose/turn head away
-Make faces at the sight or smell of food
-Spits when food touches his lips
-Shudders at the sight, smell or taste of food
-Avoid eye contact
If a child gags at the sight or smell of food is it considered a hyper sensitive gag reflex? - correct answers
✔✔No, it's because of sensory issues.
What does it mean to be sensory under-responsive? - correct answers ✔✔-Slow to respond, difficult to
arouse, may withdraw
-Reduced responses to stimuli
What are some things a child that is sensory under-responsive might do? - correct answers ✔✔-
Withdraw from the situation
-Stare into space/minimal reactions
-Humming/rocking
-Overstuffs mouth
-Pocketing of food
-Swallows food whole or minimal chewing noted
