FEES
Let’s Eat! Feeding Therapy is a practice that focuses on feeding and swallowing difficulties only, our specialist prices are listed below.
| Type of appointment | What is involved | Time of appointment | Cost |
| Baby 6 months and under | Breast/bottle feeding assessment with a feeding plan and summary 1 page letter.
|
90mins | $270 |
| Straightforward assessments
Toddler 7 months and older – school aged. |
Feeding assessment with a feeding plan and summary 1 page letter.
This appointment is for straightforward appointments, children generally do not have a diagnosis. This is completed over 1 appointment.
Screening appointments are offered to eligible clients. |
90mins | $330 |
| Complex assessments
Children from birth – school aged |
2 appointments are booked for 1 hour each.
1st appointment: parent only - $193.99 2nd appointment: parent + child - $193.99 3-4-page Report – 1.5 hours ($290.98) time billed This appointment is for complex clients, your child might be tube fed or have a diagnosis. This is completed over 2 appointments. |
3 hours total
|
$678.83 |
| Straightforward follow up
Therapy appointments |
Therapy appointment with a summary at the end of the appointment.
|
45-50 mins | $190 |
| Complex follow up
Therapy appointments |
Therapy appointment with a typed summary at the end of the appointment.
|
60 mins (direct)
10 mins (indirect) |
$226.32 |
| Review assessments | Reviews appointments are "mini" assessments and are for children who have not been seen for 1 year (or longer). A summary letter will be provided to your doctor if an EPC is required.
|
90mins | $270 |
| Review reports | If you require a report for funding purposes (including NDIS review reports) this will be billed according to the time taken. You will be quoted “up to 2 hours” and charged only for the time taken to write the report as discussed with your therapist.
|
Up to 2 hours | $193.99 - $387.98 |
Additional charges - will be discussed with you prior
- Reports for third party eg school feeding management plans, letters to supplement GP referrals to specialists.
- School and preschool visits (travel fee included)
- Home visits
- Extended phone calls and resulting feeding planning with other therapists
- Ongoing phone consults and extensive email follow up with families after initial appointments.
- Skype/Zoom calls with families or other professionals.
- Modified Barium Swallow (xray hospital swallow assessments) - referral paperwork and if required, attendance during the assessment.
What to bring to your first appointment
| Type of appointment | What to bring |
| Baby | Bottles (if used), their blue book and any reports. A video on your phone of them feeding (breast/bottle) at home is also useful. |
| Toddler/preschooler | Food to eat for the appointment (generally some foods they eat well and foods they struggle with), a drink, bib and change of clothes as well as their blue book. A video on your phone of them eating at home is also useful. For regular therapy appointments, your therapist will advise what to bring. |
| School aged child | 3 foods they eat well, 3 foods they don’t eat, a drink and any relevant reports. A video on your phone of them eating at home is also useful. For regular therapy appointments, your therapist will advise what to bring. |
| Parent appointment | Just yourself and any medical/allied health reports written about your child. A video on your phone of the family meal at home is also useful. |
| Telehealth appointments | Your therapist will send you the telehealth link (Zoom platform) 5 days before your appointment. Any food required for the therapy appointment with your child will be advised at this time. |
We have a mini kitchen in the clinic so can heat up anything you need for the appointment.