Food List for Sensory Support in Organization and Functional Skills

Name of Student:_______________________ Date:_______________

Purpose: To provide a list of foods that could help organize and calm your child to support functional skills and behavior.

Oral input is organizing for children. Infants use sucking to calm themselves. Throughout our lifespan, we use different oral input for assisting with attention, alertness, and supporting functional skills. Adults use gum, chew on the end of their pencils, etc. while focusing to do paperwork.

The following foods can be used to try to give your child oral input. Try to observe what foods help to organize, calm, or alert your child to bring them to a more functional state of arousal. Please let me know if you find that certain foods are more helpful than others.

Sucking Food Chewy Foods Chewy Foods Crunchy Foods

___Ice (suck) ___ Lemon Drops ___ Chewing Gum ___ Crackers

___ Hard Candy ___ Cheese ___ Bagels ___ Corn Curls

___Candy Sour Balls ___ French Fries ___ Pita Bread ___ Popcorn

___ Dum Dums ___ Fruit Leather ___ Gummy Bears ___ Potato Chips

___ Blow Pop ___ Fruit Roll Ups ___ Gummy Worms ___ Gold Fish

___ Juice Popsicle ___ Dried Fruit ___ Jerky ___ Crunchy Cereals

___ Frozen Grapes ___ Raisins ___ Licorice ___ Pretzels

___ Orange Wedge ___ Granola Bars ___ Long Suckers ___ Bagel Chips

___ Lemon Wedge ___Tootsie Rolls ___ Skittles ___Ginger Snaps

Sweet Salty Sour Bitter/Spicy

___ Chew Candy ___ Salty Chip ___ Lemonade Powder ___ Atomic Fire Ball

___ Dried Fruit ___ Bread Sticks ___ Tang Powder ___ Hot Tamales

___ Licorice ___ Croutons ___ Tear Jerkers Candy ___ Hot Gum Balls

___ Long Suckers ___ Crackers ___ Sour Gummy Bears ___ Red Hots

___ Fruit Roll-ups ___ French Fries ___ Craisins ___ Cinn Powder

___ Flavored Yogurt ___ Pretzels ___ Shock Tarts ___ Coffee Crystals

___ Applesauce ___ Bagel Chips ___ Sour Patch Kids ___ Black Pepper

___ Puddings ___ Gold Fish Crackers___ War Heads ___ Chili Powder