Hallie Bulkin talks with an occupational therapist about pediatric feeding therapy. The therapist shares a case of twins with severe feeding issues who improved after sensory and tactile work, and discusses concerns about role overlap with speech therapists in clinical practice.
How long have you been like working with pediatrics in the feeding realm?
Like two years is not been long at all. So I was very intimidated to take the course. I remember asking you when we did like the introduction call to see if this was the right fit for me. And I was like, I'm an ot. I don't know what a speech therapist knows. Like, I'm new to this. So I had a client, a set of twins that from the time I was there to do fine motor and sensory. They had went through three feeding therapists and they still was not eating. It's just like a switch just went off and they woke up, there were two and they started eating. But the sensory piece of it tactile all of that. I fixed that. I wish I would have known more to keep it going. But I did it and I stayed in my lane.
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