Do you know this is a question I often get asked and I know when I worked in acute hospitals, I often got asked by doctors to help patients with their meds. When a cousin recently asked me, I struggled to find a lot of information online and then when a patient asked me, I […]
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One Handed Cooks: Boosting your basics – Feeding Speech Pathology review and their “gold nuggets”!
When the One Handed Cooks team released their second book, I headed to the shops (twice) to look for their book but couldn’t find it. Then one day…. The postman delivered a special surprise for me. So why did I look so hard to find the book? Well the One handed cooks first book was […]
Crunch and Sip… how to support your fussy eater
Crunch and sip (also called fruit break) is an Australian initiative across primary schools that encourages all children to stop for a quick 10 minute break in the morning to eat a fruit or vegetable. It can often be done during group time or roll call and even in the afternoon. If your child had […]
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 […]
When to introduce solids to your baby?
To start or not to start – the introduction of solids… The conundrum! When should I start my baby on solids is a question posed to Paediatric Feeding Speech Pathologists, Doctors and Baby Health nurses nearly every day. When I answer it in my practice, ‘Let’s Eat! Paediatric Speech Pathology’, I find that it’s not […]