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Dr Lucy Cooke, research psychologist specialising in children’s eating behaviour and expert advisor on the non-profit kids game Teach Your Monster:  Adventurous Eating. Expert advisor to TastEd. Lucy spent fifteen years at University College London developing and testing interventions aimed at increasing children’s intake of fruits and vegetables, with a particular focus on fussier or pickier children. Latterly she worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children with the Feeding and Eating Disorders Team. She has over 50  academic publications to her name and, with Dr Laura Webber, has written a book for parents on child feeding “Stress-free feeding: how to develop healthy eating habits in your child”
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I’m Dr Lucy Cooke and I am research psychologist specialising in children’s eating behaviour and expert advisor on the non-profit kids game Teach Your Monster: Adventurous Eating. In this blog for London Mums magazine, I’ll explain how a sensory approach to exploring food can help children with SEND. For children with SEND, eating and feeding difficulties are common.
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