Tolerates -> Interacts with -> Smells -> Touch -> Taste -> Eating

​Tolerates

• Looks at food when directly in child's space
• Being at the table with the food just outside of child's space
• Being at the table with the food 1/2 way across the table
• Being at the table with the food on the other side of the table
• Being in the same room

Interacts With

• ​Uses another food to interact with the food
• Uses utensils/napkins/tools to manipulate food in own space
• Uses utensils or a container to serve self onto own plate/space
• Uses utensils or a container to stir or pour food/drink for others
• Assists in preparation/set up with food

Smells

• Leans down or picks up to smell
• Odor in child's space
• Odor at table
• Odor in room

Touch

• Tip of tongue, top of tongue
• Teeth
• Lips
• Nose, underneath nose
• Chin, cheek
• Top of head
• Shoulder, neck
• Arm, trunk/chest
• Whole hand Fingertips, fingerpads
• ​One finger tip 

Taste

• Bites pieces, chews "x" times & spits out
• Bites pieces, holds in mouth for "x" seconds & spits out
• Bites off piece & spits out immediately
• Full tongue lick
• ​Licks lips or teeth, tongue tip taste 

Eating

• Chews and swallows whole bolus independently
• ​ Bites & chews, swallows some and spits some 

Toomey, Kay A. "Assessment and Treatment Using the SOS Approach to Feeding"