Speech and Language Therapists play a crucially important role in the feeding therapy team, we have expanded our service to now include speech and language therapy to our Multidisciplinary feeding team. 

Speech and Language Therapists tend to predominately support children experiencing Dysphagia – meaning discomfort or difficulty with swallowing. 

Signs of a feeding challenge requires a Speech and Language Therapist

Tamariki presenting from the following signs and symptoms would benefit from seeing a Speech Language Therapist to support their feeding skills

– Refusal to eat or drink or only eating certain textures

– Taking a long time to eat (over 30 minutes)

– Coughing, gagging or vomiting during eating

– Frequent drooling

– Pocketing foods or spitting out a lot of foods

– Crying or fussing when feeding

– Frequent illnesses including coughs and chest infections 

– Weight loss or challenges gaining weight

Our speech therapists are now available to support clients – book a time to chat to us today!

Rebecca