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Feeding Therapy Australia

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

12/11/2025

Burger night = connection night! Cooking as a family builds trust, curiosity, and confidence which are all key ingredients in a responsive feeding approach.

06/11/2025

A sneak peek into the life of Val, one of the co-directors of Feeding Therapy Australia.

When she is not supporting her team, she is either studying for her PhD or supporting teaching at universities.

Here is a screenshot of a lovely email sent to her by a speech pathology student who recently attended her lectures.

We always try to recognise our clients and families for their hard work, so sometimes, it's equally lovely to receive this recognition ourselves.

Have a lovely week!

03/11/2025

Ever wondered what goes on in the life of a Responsive Feeding Therapist?

In the coming weeks, we will give you sneak peeks into how we support children in feeling safe, confident, and connected around food.

30/10/2025

Debbie here — Val’s doing important research work that will ultimately help all of us, so I would love to see more families involved.

If you know anyone who might be interested, please consider passing it on. Every bit of support helps. Thanks

17/10/2025

✨ Exciting news! ✨
We’re bringing back two of our sold-out workshops and introducing a brand-new one for therapists working in complex disability.

🎟️ Tickets are now open on our website for our Infant Feeding Workshop (26–27 February 2026) — don’t miss your chance to join us!

📅 Dates for the other workshops coming soon.

Visit our website to book and stay updated!

06/10/2025

Have a listen to the baby feeding?
What do you think?

Come join us at our 2 day Responsive Feeding Infant Workshop where we will walk you through real infant case studies and discuss how we supported them to help build your assessment skills and confidence in developing feeding plans.

Early Bird Tickets on sale NOW.

01/10/2025

Keen for your opinion! Does this bub have delayed chewing skills?

In our 2-day Responsive Feeding Infant Workshop, we spend lots of time reviewing videos just like this one so you can build your knowledge and confidence around assessing chewing skills.

Early Bird Tickets on Sale Now via our website- 26th- 27th February 2026.

26/09/2025

* CHEWING DEVELOPMENT *

One of the biggest highlights for delegates reported back in feedback forms is the amount of case study videos shown to help them get a clear understanding of chewing development.

We know that "normal development" is so varied so the clinical skill is knowing what is impacting functional movement and what is just.... within normal range!

In our 2-day Responsive Feeding Infant Workshop, we take a deep dive into these chewing developmental stages using videos and research to build your assessment skills.

Interested to know more? Head to our website www.feedingtherapyaustralia.com.au
for the workshop learning outcomes and early bird prices.

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.

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Sydney, NSW

Website

http://www.feedingtherapyaustralia.com.au/

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