Paediatric Feeding Support

What are some examples of feeding difficulties?​

• Sensory aversions; colours, textures, shapes

• Food refusal 

• Developing and managing oral motor skills 

• Prolonged meal times 

• Difficulties transitioning between the stages of eating: puree, lumpy foods, smooth solids, chewy foods and finger foods.

• Choking, gagging or vomiting when eating 

• Picky eaters 

• Difficulties due to disabilities i.e. Autism

• New-born babies having difficulty with sucking and feeding 

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How can a speech pathologist help?

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Our experienced Speech Pathologist can help you and your family by:

• Performing a comprehensive feeding assessment

• Developing measurable, functional, realistic and relevant goals and/or plans in collaboration with the family

• Identifying management strategies to help reach the family's goals. 

• Provide ongoing evidence-based intervention and regular evaluation of management. 

 

Our senior Speech Pathologist has extensive experience working in paediatric feeding. Karin has helped families for over 13 years, in a number of different settings, with a variety of difficulties including:

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• Working in leading hospitals delivering a specialist feeding clinic to children who are having difficulties swallowing, sensory issues with textures, picky eaters, and those struggling due to disability.

• Experience in infant feeding - which includes: private practice, community health, hospital settings, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) developing suck and feeding skills to build hydration, nutrition and safe feeding.

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Karin is accredited in the Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Feeding Approach . The Sequential Oral Sensory Feeding (SOS) program which focuses on steps to eating by learning to tolerate, interact, smell, touch, taste and eat different types and textures.