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Feeding Therapy Australia

Owned by Valerie Gent ('s Eat! Feeding Therapy) and Debbie Alvarez ( Kids Sydney)

21/09/2025

We hear from therapists all the time that they think they would get so much joy from working with infants.

If this is you, come join us at our upcoming workshop in February so you can start working with this joyful population.

15/09/2025

INFANT FEEDING WORKSHOP 2026

✨ Dive deep into supporting breastfeeding, bottle feeding, and introducing solids with evidence-based, responsive feeding strategies.

👶 A rare PD opportunity to increase your skills in infant feeding with input from multiple disciplines. Don’t miss out!

📅 When: 26th-27th February 2026
💻 Where: Online (join us from anywhere in the world!)
🎟️ Secure your spot today. www.feedingtherapyaustralia.com.au

25/08/2025

Day 4 finished on Friday so we thought we would share photos from the day as well as photos shared by our delegates on social media.

Day 4 involved discussion on Trauma, Chewing skills therapy in children with disabilities, Tube weaning (Lauren Gladman DT), Aspiration and Complex Dysphagia (Kate Headley, SP) as well as more case studies and deeper consideration of how to support children and their families in feeding therapy.

We loved meeting all 120 delegates and look forward to hearing how you go putting in place RFT in your workplaces.

Have a great week! Val and Deb

22/08/2025

Day 3 - Today we took responsive feeding therapy to the next level with complex children.

✅ Tricky cases were discussed,

✅ therapists were asked to challenge themselves on how they can be more neurodiversity affirming with their approach

✅ Bec, our fabulous OT from supported everyone in considering safety, connection and co-regulation when working with children and families.

It was a massive day with so many connected moments and ah-ha 💡 thoughts.

20/08/2025

DAY 2- Responsive Feeding House Model. Today 120 delegates took a deep dive into feeding therapy, with case studies and lots of videos shared.

Breakout rooms for more peer discussion during the day even led to our online delegates tuning via the big screen in the room so collaboration could occur between both Face to Face and Online delegates. Hooray for clever audio visual people!

It takes a team with these events and for that we are so grateful AVisual Productions

19/08/2025

DAY 1 - RESPONSIVE FEEDING HOUSE MODEL

Welcome to the 120 delegates joining us today face to face and virtually from all around Australia and New Zealand. We covered theory behind responsive feeding, feeding assessment, OMA and chewing skills assessment.

Looking forward to Day 2 where we chat all things responsive feeding therapy! Val and Deb

08/08/2025

It’s less than two weeks until our 4-day Responsive Feeding House Model workshop, and we are so excited to welcome the more than 100 delegates joining us each day!

Please check your inbox to download your slides and handouts. If you haven't received it:

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Looking forward to seeing you all Face to Face or online soon,

Val and Debbie

07/08/2025

Some of the challenges as an experienced clinician in feeding therapy, are the multiple factors that need to be considered when working with complex feeding cases.

Day 4 takes trauma-informed principles, anxious eaters with reduced diets, dysphagia and tube feeding to a deeper level of discussion. Led by Senior Speech Pathologists and Dietitians, this day is for you if you want to challenge your thinking around how to support some of the most complex children on our feeding caseload.

To read the full PDF head to the website www.feedingtherapyaustralia.com.au

05/08/2025

Have a listen to a podcast released last week by Feeding Matters with one of our directors Val Gent and her PhD supervisor, Dr Jeanne Marshall on Responsive Feeding Therapy.
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/responsive-feeding-therapy-for-children-with/id1771614646?i=1000719646073

And if you are interested in signing up to the online conference, click on this link: https://www.feedingmatters.org/psych-summit/
The recordings are available for a month which is very helpful when there is so much great info on PFD vs ARFID.

04/08/2025

Are you interested in building your knowledge of neurodiversity affirming feeding therapy?

Day 3 will deepen the work started in day 1 and 2 by exploring the considerations when working with neurodivergent families as well as children with ARFID and/or PFD using our Responsive Feeding House Model™.

This framework supports families to build on food variety using family centred food goals that increase their child’s social participation in mealtimes across all settings.

Another part of Day 3 not to miss, is the practical based discussion with top sensory regulation strategies from a Senior Occupational Therapist (Rebecca Penfold) working in the industry of complex sensory feeding kids.

To read the full PDF head to the website www.feedingtherapyaustralia.com.au

31/07/2025

When working with neurodivergent children in feeding therapy:

✨ Be mindful of individualising all your therapy strategies.

✨ Continue to challenge yourself not to put a neurotypical lens on it.

✨ Talk to neurodivergent people to increase your understanding of feeding differences and accommodations that could be made to support their well-being and mental health around eating.

Here is a podcast we love by Naureen Hunami talking about feeding differences: https://www.themindfuldietitian.com.au/.../ep-84-naureen...

30/07/2025

Are you looking for a responsive feeding approach to use with your paediatric feeding caseload?

Join us for day 1 and 2 of the Responsive Feeding House Model Workshop to increase your knowledge on how to apply responsive feeding and neurodiversity affirming principles in assessment and therapy for children (aged 2-12 years) and their families.

Our Responsive Feeding House Model™ supports families to decrease mealtime challenges whilst increasing food variety using family centred food goals.

Face-to-face tickets are SOLD OUT for Days 1 & 2, but you can still attend in person for Days 3 & 4 (Aug 21–22).
If you want to come for all 4 days then another option is to join virtually for Days 1 & 2, then meet us on-site for the final two days.
Let us know if you’d like to snap up one of these limited spots!

To read the full PDF, head to the website www.feedingtherapyaustralia.com.au

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