Feeding & Mealtime Therapy

What is a feeding therapist?
A feeding therapist is typically a speech pathologist or occupational therapist who has completed additional training in feeding and has a particular interest in the area.

​Our feeding therapists aim to collaborate with caregivers to create positive mealtime experiences that will help their child become confident, self-directed eaters who enjoy their meals, have strong eating skills, and are internally motivated to eat.

How can a feeding therapist help my child?
Our feeding therapists are skilled in helping children and families with:

• Feeling confident to introduce and explore a variety of food at a pace that honours their autonomy and well-being
• Offering parents and children practical strategies to support their child within mealtimes
• Fostering a nurturing mealtimes environment that is responsive to the child's cues
• Setting up the ideal seating and positioning for mealtimes
• Understanding the role that sensory preferences play within mealtimes and strategies to support this
• Making bottle and/or breastfeeding easier
• Strategies to help make chewing and swallowing safer and easier
• Reducing stress and anxiety at mealtimes for the whole family
• Feeding difficulties associated with tongue tie
• Transitioning to solids

We have feeding therapists trained in approaches including:​

• The Get Permission Approach
• Responsive Feeding Therapy
• Neuro-affirming Approaches to Feeding
• SOS (Sequential Oral Sensory) Feeding Therapy