Hallie Bulkin explains how feeding therapy works in schools: it has to be framed as helping kids access the curriculum, not as medical treatment. Schools can use swallow studies and ENT input, but feeding therapy supports nutrition and hydration so students can actually learn, not replace a doctor's care.
I mean, I decided to go back and do more research for my doctorate because this is such a huge issue. So we've had to go through a lot of policy, a lot of procedures, and it has to be educationally relevant. So we have to explain to parents like, oh, no, no, no, you're not just going to come to school and get your feeding therapy there. Because we're taking an educational frame of reference. Of course, we're using medical knowledge, and we, you know, it see levels about diet recommendations or if they need thickener. But this is based on community medical knowledge, such as, you know, swallow studies and, you know, ENT or G tube feedings and everything like that. We can help them access their curriculum, making sure that they get their adequate nutrition and hydration.
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