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Feeding & Swallowing

We provide feeding and swallowing therapy.

Understanding Swallowing and Feeding Disorders

We provide feeding and swallowing therapy in the form of completing evaluations in order to make diet texture recommendations, help to determine whether compensatory strategies are appropriate.

Feeding & Swallowing Services

The CCD offers many feeding and swallowing services.

  • Pediatric Feeding Clinic

Pediatric Feeding Clinic

About the Clinic

The Pediatric Feeding Clinic provides assessment and treatment for infants and children who demonstrate a range of challenges related to feeding and swallowing. We use state-of-the-art equipment to help our patients thrive and improve their quality of life.

Our clinicians are dedicated to working with families and their medical teams to support their children as they learn to become independent, successful eaters. As medical speech-language pathologists, we partner with other physicians and other healthcare professionals to best serve the needs of our clients while fostering a supportive learning environment for our student clinicians.

Our Clients & Services

Our clinic provides services for families of infants and children who are experiencing:

  • Failure to thrive or difficulty with weight gain
  • Difficulty transitioning to solid foods
  • Difficulty sucking, chewing, or swallowing
  • Picky eating, food refusal, or limited dietary intake
  • Developmental or medicinal concerns that affect eating
  • Gastronomy and nasogastric tube feeding

 Our services include:

  • Multidisciplinary feeding assessments
  • Nutritional assessment and individualized nutritional recommendations
  • Individual and group treatment sessions for feeding and swallowing disorders

 Our services include:

  • Multidisciplinary feeding assessments
  • Nutritional assessment and individualized nutritional recommendations
  • Individual and group treatment sessions for feeding and swallowing disorders

Scheduling an Appointment

Individuals who wish to schedule an appointment for a feeding evaluation may contact us via phone or email. We require that all new clients submit intake paperwork before an appointment will be scheduled.