About our Parent Training Service
Our feeding clinic at HDST is designed to not only support the clients, but just as importantly, their families, to achieve positive and wholesome mealtimes.
We offer both new and current clients with the opportunity to access both individualised training and general education and support to assist their child in their feeding journey. Parent training can be conducted before, during and after your child has received 1:1 feeding therapy. It also can occur in the absence of direct therapy with your child and coupled with many other responsive feeding methodologies. Our feeding therapy philosophy is underpinned by the following approaches:
- Responsive Feeding approach
- Get Permission approach – Marsha Dunn Klein
- New Visions – Suzanne Evans Morris
- Elyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility
- Katja Rowell’s STEPS + (Supportive Treatment of Eating in PreschoolerS) Approach to Extreme Picky Eating
- AEIOU: An Integrated Approach to Paediatric Feeding – Nina Ayd Johansen
- Feeding Therapy Australia’s House Model – Val Gent and Debbie Alvarez
- AGES AND STAGES® – Diane Bahr
Parent workshops on offer at HDST
We are thrilled to offer the following parent workshops. Each workshop is presented by a senior speech pathologist with further training in the area of paediatric feeding and swallowing. All workshops include a complimentary 15 minute phone consult before attending the workshop, worksheets, a copy of the slides and additional handouts to support you at home. We also cater for busy parents by offering the training after hours, and in person or via telehealth.