Hallie Bulkin and a fellow practitioner argue that home-based feeding therapy works better than clinic visits for families with medically complex infants. Working in familiar settings with the child's own foods and cultural practices makes skills stick and families actually show up.
You know, there's a real need for families, I think, that, you know, have medically involved children or have multiple children, can't get themselves, you know, easily to clinic, just to offer, especially if you're, you know, when I'm doing, you know, right out of the nicu, nursing babies, you know, to be able to do that in people's homes, feeding therapy in general, I think is just in some ways easier in people's homes with their own, you know, foods and, you know, culture and everything that goes into that. I just, it really kind of dovetailed sort of that, you know, the clouds open moment of like early intervention and the medical side being in people's homes. That's just where I'm comfortable. So now I'm doing it and loving it.
So exciting. I mean, and I completely agree with you because my private practice does the same thing where we, you know, travel into patients homes and preschools and daycares and it's exactly that. It's when they're in that natural setting, it's so much easier to then carry over, generalize those new skills because they're already doing it in that setting.
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