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    2026 Pediatric Feeding Conference Sandy, UT: 9/17-18/26

    Hello! Some of you know that I have spent most of my career as a hospital-based feeding therapist. I started in acute care in 1993 (yikes!) and eventually moved into an outpatient setting where I work on a feeding team, offer feeding therapy and conduct swallow studies. Sandwiched between my hospital-based jobs, I spent five years working as an early intervention feeding therapist in Salt Keep Reading >>

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    Side-lying as a Feeding Intervention 

    This is shared with permission from Ramya Kumar, SLP Side-lying as a feeding intervention is not a new idea, but the research supporting it is becoming harder to ignore. What makes it particularly compelling is the physiological Keep Reading >>

    Gagging and the Salt Technique

    During my dissertation research on children with PFD and gagging, I came across an interesting technique to treat gagging that was briefly mentioned in a few dental journals and one dental dissertation. It was referred to as the salting Keep Reading >>

    Sharing UNC Children’s – North Carolina Children’s Hospital’s post

    https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1LWL3PKJ6r UNC Children's posted about one of wonderful kids from feeding clinic and I am sharing here! Last year, we obtained an Innovative UNC grant to bring TEACCH, the UNC autism center (https://teacch.com/) Keep Reading >>

    Universal Aspects in Feeding Intervention

    Let's talk about universal aspects in feeding intervention This is any idea I have been playing around with for awhile now. We all know that there are different strategies and philosophies in feeding treatment. This is a good thing- we need many Keep Reading >>

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    Swallowing

    FEES Training Course 

    I want to give a shout out to Patheous education for a great course I took this week on Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) training. Selena, Beth, Candace, and Rory were amazing trainers and made everyone feel so comfortable with Keep Reading >>

    Implementing FEES for Infants in CVICU & NICU

    BackTable / ENT / Podcast / Episode #165 Implementing FEES for Infants in CVICU & NICU with Olivia Brooks, SLP In this episode, pediatric speech language pathologist (SLP) Olivia Brooks (University of Florida Shands Hospital) shares her Keep Reading >>

    What is a MBSS- video for kids

    I wanted to share a video we made to help children coming to UNC for a modified barium swallow study. Please share with your clients if you think it is helpful. It's also on our feeding team page Keep Reading >>

    Swallowing Difficulties May Be Caused by Misfiring Neurons

    in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN) Pediatric dysphagia (swallowing difficulties) is a frequent and serious clinical complication in a large number of clinically defined neurodevelopmental disorders including the genetic Keep Reading >>

    Oral-Motor and Sensory

    Impact of Oral Motor Impairment in Infants with Poor Feeding Webinar

    Impact of Oral Motor Impairment in Infants with Poor Feeding  Presented by Debra Beckman, MS, CCC-SLP, https://www.beckmanoralmotor.com/ A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending a wonderful free webinar presented by Debra Beckman, Keep Reading >>

    Musculus masseter pars coronidea

    Scientists Just Identified a Brand New Muscle Layer in The Human Jaw  DAVID NIELD23 DECEMBER 2021  It turns out there are still exciting new discoveries to be made in a field as well-studied as human anatomy: researchers have confirmed the Keep Reading >>

    Poster: Child Cain’t Chew

    This poster from 2018 was shared with me by Sally Asquith who gave permission to post here. The objective of this study: REVIEW CURRENT LITERATURE PERTINENT TO THE ROLE OF ORAL-MOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN DX AND TX OF PFD. COMPLETE A RETROSPECTIVE Keep Reading >>

    The Sensory-Motor Approach to Modified Baby-Led Weaning for Babies with Feeding Challenges

    by Jill Rabin & Lori Overland Baby-Led Weaning has become “all the rage” with many parents choosing this method of transitioning their little ones to solid foods. Everyone is jumping in, with speech pathologists, dietitians, Keep Reading >>

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    Case Studies

    Challenging case with advice from Suzanne Evans Morris, PhD

    In this post, I have described a challenging case  and solicited advice from Suzanne Evans Morris, PhD, one of the experts in our field. Suzanne graciously provided commentary and advice and challenged me to look differently at the feeding Keep Reading >>

    Complex Case – Changing Therapy Strategies When Needed

    Complex Case - Changing Therapy Strategies When Needed *I shared this case with Suzanne Evans Morris and she provided some   guidance and analysis at the end. Hope you enjoy  John is a 6 year old male with a complex medical Keep Reading >>

    Feeding Harley

    I am excited to share Harley’s story, written by his Mother about her journey to help her son wean from his g-tube and become an oral feeder. Thank you Liz for sharing and inspiring us all to continue looking for answers! I feel I do need post a Keep Reading >>

    Cases From Clinic

    Cases From Clinic This is my second post highlighting some of our kids and how we provide multidisciplinary intervention using a medical/nutritional/behavioral approach. I post this hoping it might give some treatment ideas to clinicians. There Keep Reading >>

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    • Side-lying as a Feeding Intervention 
    • Pediatric Feeding Disorder and the Rome V Criteria: Advancing the Clinical Framework for Pediatric Feeding Assessment
    • New Texting Program from ASHA a- Picky Eating and Other Feeding Challenges

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