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Cheryl Pelletier Shares Her Pediatric Feeding Journey

13 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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Cheryl Pelletier (speaking in a YouTube video) describes attending many pediatric feeding courses but finding that real children often do not fit course scenarios. She emphasizes the need to think on your feet in clinical practice, the value of supervisors and mentors to bridge course theory and real-world cases, and her own experience with imposter syndrome when starting out. She stresses preventing clinicians in their 12-week and certification courses from feeling similarly overwhelmed.

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I went to all the courses. You name them, I went to them. Problem with all the courses where that when you're looking at a child they don't always fit into what you just learned at this course. The person behind the podium is not going to say to you oh yeah, do this with this child because they've never met the child before, right? So you have to then think on your feet and problem solve and be quick about it. And that is the reason why when I was in a position of supervisor or a mentor I'm like this is what I'm looking at and this is why it's important. I had no idea at the beginning and I was in the trenches expected to know and it was full on imposter syndrome and I was petrified. And I don't want any clinician that we are lucky to have in our courses the 12 week and the certification to feel like that ever again.