Hallie BulkinAsk HallieAI:Your On-Demand Mentor in Pediatric Feeding & Myo

Want More Clinical Confidence? Try This One Habit

23 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief solo segment, Hallie Bulkin encourages clinicians to boost their confidence by regularly practicing child screening. She advises therapists to screen every child on their caseload—even mentally—so they become comfortable with the process. Bulkin recommends keeping two reference sheets handy during therapy sessions to stay oriented and recognize patterns quickly. She also introduces the "Feed the Pizza" technique as a tool to further accelerate screening speed and intuitive recognition, framing it as a habit that transforms unfamiliar assessments into familiar, automatic observations.

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You're gonna get plenty of practice when you go out there. The more kids you screen, even just for practice, the better you're gonna feel, right? So just go out there, screen every kid on your caseload, even if you're just doing it in your mind, you're not even checking boxes. Just have this, have this sitting next to you, right? If you can have these 2 sheets just sitting next to you while you're doing therapy, so you're kind of like, where are we? Do I see anything interesting, right? The more you look at it, the more familiar you become with it, the less it feels new, less it feels kind of like this unknown, and the more you start to go like, oh, I know what I'm looking for without even looking at the screener. You start to pick up on things really quickly. Plus, Feed the Pizza is gonna really take you there.