Feeding your baby is one of the most important aspects of child care. When it does not work as you expect or is a stressful event, it can be of great concern. We are here to help! Feeding skills in children actually start with sucking, then learning to eat solid foods and eventually drinking from […]

Feeding and Swallowing Disorders

Speech-language pathologists can help with children who have feeding and swallowing concerns. Find out more about feeding and swallowing

We provide evidence-based feeding therapy in Northwestern Chicago backed by trained and certified therapists having extensive training in the SOS feeding approach.

Officials are still trying to determine if Zika definitively causes microcephaly in babies born to women infected with the virus, but concern about the condition is on the rise.

What would you say if a graduate student or clinical fellow asked you to explain the difference between a feeding/swallowing disorder and an eating disorder for pediatric patients? As a pediatric feeding and swallowing specialists, I answer this question with, “It’s complicated.”

It Shouldn’t Hurt to Eat: An Introduction to Feeding and Swallowing Disorders Stop and take a minute to think about eating. How many times a day do you eat? How often are your social gatherings centered around food; breakfast with your family, lunch with friends, dinner and drinks with loved ones? Can you even imagine

This content is sponsored by Passy Muir The presence of a tracheostomy tube has been associated with aspiration and dysphagia, but exact prevalence has varied in the literature. Tracheostomy tubes have been shown to limit laryngeal elevation, decrease subglottic pressure, and mechanically alter the swallow (Suiter, McCullough, & Powell, 2003). Patients with tracheostomy tubes also […]

Author: Heather Bolan, MA, CCC-SLP Edited by: Ainsley Martin, MS, CCC-SLP Recently I started to reflect on NICU Awareness Month and how far my tiny rural hospital has come in managing neonatal care. When I was hired in the spring of 2016, we had no neonatal therapy program for our Level II NICU with our equipment and interventions leaving much to be desired. With the close teamwork of our Nursing Manager of Pediatrics, DOR, OT, and myself, we initiated a quality improvement project to start our

This resource provides caregivers and clinicians information about swallow development, including anatomy and physiology development from infancy to toddlerhood. The handout also outlines specifically how the pediatric swallow anatomy is not just a smaller version of adult anatomy and how these anatomical differences can impact dysphagia for the pediatric population. This content is only available […]

A framework for diagnosing pediatric feeding disorder (PFD) says that four domains—medical, nutritional, feeding skill, and psychosocial—underlie the disorder, and recommends interprofessional teams focus on all four for successful intervention.

Speech Therapy Speech therapy can be a life-changing experience for St. Mary’s Kids. For both verbal and non-verbal children with special needs and complex medical conditions, speech therapy can increase independence and build important skills. May is National Speech Therapy Month, a time when we celebrate the contributions that speech therapy can make in children’s lives. Celebrating a Center of […]

Feeding therapy is the first step toward overcoming your child's feeding issues. Find out more about it and how it can help here.

Learn exactly what pocketing food is, strategies for how to move past it, and why kids, toddlers, and even babies will pocket their food!

To ease food digestion, it must be cutted into fine fragments and mixed thoroughly with saliva, so that it might be sufficiently moist to be swallowed and aided by light movement of the diaphragm to…

Dysphagia is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to swallowing and its disorders. The journal's purpose is to provide an international source of information ...

Do you know if your child needs feeding therapy? We can help evaluate feeding therapy for toddlers and eating therapy for children in Fort Worth, Dallas, Frisco & Southlake TX.

Dysphagia Therapy app helps medical speech-language pathologists find the best swallowing treatments with personalized evidence-based recommendations.

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