Episode 305: Gut and Growth with Nadine Lopo, M.S. CCC-SLP #podcast #feedingtherapy #speechtherapy

So let's talk about the feed, the flexible framework for feeding first. Can you just, like, explain to everybody, just very briefly, like, what that course is? Like, what was the idea behind that course? Sure. I've realized over the years that many, like, when people get thrown into feeding, I'm one of them. You start with. You think in your head. You have to start with food play. Like, there's like, kind of this hierarchy you have to do. You have to start here. And I've seen, like, you have, like, different clients where they're stuck for like a year or so just playing with food. They're not getting anywhere. Yes, food play is very important. Not downplaying that at all. But you might have a different cognitive child or something going on with the gut. All other things you have to think about first. You have to think about the whole child trying to come up with a course. I'm like, how can we talk about it being flexible without saying these are your steps? So I use, like, four legs of a table.