At Let’s Eat! we often get asked by parents and professionals about our feeding approach. After working in the industry for 18 years, I have refined and developed our Let’s Eat! approach so that it continues to be evidence based and clinically delivers the feeding outcomes that parents want. We use a responsive feeding approach […]
Paediatric Feeding Speech Pathologist
Practice makes perfect
Practice made perfect is the title of a journal article published in 2008. Although this article is now 12 years old, it is a good one that gives us as therapists and parents important information about how a child learns about a food. In our clinic, we often see children try a food once and […]
Stop asking your child – “what would you like for dinner?” – what to say instead to your fussy eater…
Day in day out, I see children with feeding difficulties and fussy eating difficulties. As a Paediatric Feeding Speech Pathologist and Feeding therapist, there are some common themes with the fussy eating population. And I would like to share a very common one…. Parent says – “What would you like to eat for dinner tonight?” […]
Feeding therapy – which one is best?
Okay, it’s been a bugbear of mine for a while and this morning, I felt like discussing a controversial topic…. There will always be waves of popularity with feeding techniques in Australia but something you need to know as a parent is that… There is no one technique that will fix all children If your […]
How to help a child with fussy eating survive the Christmas family meals
Christmas is such a delicious nourishing eating time for most people (eg prawns, ham, yummy salads and our Aussie pav – what could be better!). However for fussy eaters, it can be an anxiety filled situation where parents feel pressured to either force their child to eat like everyone else or find themselves defending their […]
Fussy eater or Resistant eater, how do you tell the difference? My top 10 tips
I am often asked about fussy eaters in my practice, “Let’s Eat! Paediatric Speech Pathology”. It seems like everyone has an opinion on fussy eating and parents frequently feel like they have to trawl through the internet looking for strategies before seeking any professional help. There is actually a difference between fussy eaters and resistant eaters. […]