Center for Developmental Pediatrics & Feeding Clinic

15/12/2025

🎄🎳 We had a BALL at the CDP Christmas Bowling Night! 🎳
Spare time well spent with a team that knows how to care hard and play harder 💙😄
Adult play = nervous system regulation (with bowling shoes).
Laughter, movement, and connection—because even caregivers, clinicians, and healers need time to play.

30/11/2025

Final TMC CDP-Feeding Clinic Conference for 2025!
A big thank you to Dr. Georgina Sakyi of The Cleveland Clinic for guiding us through the psychologist’s role in pediatric feeding care and to The Feeding Clinic Community for taking the time to join us today! :)

✨ Session Pearls and Takeaways
• Always return to function. Understanding why a behavior occurs is essential for meaningful feeding intervention.
• Use Bronfenbrenner’s lens. Feeding is influenced not only by the child but by family systems, school environments, community resources, and broader societal conditions.
• View feeding through the child–parent dyad. Mealtime is a relational process shaped by co-regulation, stress, expectations, and emotional climates.
• Prioritize developmental and temperamental fit. Feeding plans must match the child’s readiness, sensory needs, pacing, and regulatory capacity.
• Practice cultural humility. Families’ beliefs, identities, histories, and lived realities must shape how we assess, support, and collaborate.
• Engage social workers for macrosystem needs. Poverty, food insecurity, transportation, and limited access strongly affect feeding success—and require systems-level support.
• Honor the depth of becoming a feeding psychologist. This work blends neurodevelopment, behavior, emotion, systems-thinking, cultural competence, and family-centered care.
• Transdisciplinary teamwork is essential. Real progress happens when pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, nutritionists, social workers, and families work beyond silos with shared goals.

Working together—across disciplines and systems—makes mealtime success truly possible. 🍽️💙

25/11/2025

HANAPBUHAY SUMMIT 2025
A Job Opportunity Awareness for Young Adults with Neurodevelopmental Conditions

✨ ONLINE LIVESTREAM REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR FREE! ✨

Can’t join us onsite?
No worries — you can still be part of this milestone event!

Livestream Registration Link:
https://up-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EIL8KvlORG-z4Lacasr1Zg #/registration

Registration is FREE!

Programme link:
https://scan.page/p/62dGcR

Your presence — onsite or online — strengthens our shared mission.
The more we gather, the louder our advocacy becomes.

Let’s show our full support as the PSDBP community stands together for inclusion, dignity, and meaningful work for every neurodivergent individual.

See you at the Summit!

13/11/2025

2 days left to boost your child’s communication.

Register now while slots are open!

https://www.bit.ly/LanguageStimulation2025

13/11/2025

"Ano ba ang developmental pediatrician?"
"Ano ba ang ginagawa ng developmental pediatrician?

What is a developmental pediatrician?
Read more:
https://psdbp.org/news-announcements/beyond-the-milestones-the-mind-behind-the-diagnosis/

13/11/2025

"Kung mukhang maayos naman ang development ng anak ko, kailangan pa rin ba ng regular na developmental check-up?"

Read more on Developmental Check-ups here:
https://psdbp.org/news-announcements/is-missing-a-milestone-always-a-problem/

08/11/2025

Let’s grow your child’s voice together, one small moment at a time. 🌱

If you’re hoping to help your child talk more, connect more, and share their ideas — you’re not alone. And you don’t have to guess what to do next.

Join our Parent Class on Language Stimulation at the Center for Developmental Pediatrics.
We’ll guide you through simple, nurturing strategies you can use during play and daily routines to support your child’s communication in ways that feel natural and joyful.

Facilitated by:
• Charles Justin Lim, RSLP
• Hannah Manalang, RSLP

You’ll leave with a gentle, doable plan you can start right away — and renewed confidence in your child’s growth. 💛

📅 November 15, 2025 (Saturday)
🕑 2:00 PM
💵 ₱600

🔗 Register Now: https://bit.ly/LanguageStimulation2025

08/11/2025

Stop Guessing. Start Growing Together. 💛
Want to help your child talk more, communicate better, and express their ideas with confidence — right at home?

Join our Parent Class on Language Stimulation at the Center for Developmental Pediatrics!
Learn simple, practical, and evidence-based strategies you can use during play, routines, and everyday moments to support your child’s speech and communication skills.

Facilitated by our Speech & Language Therapists:
• Charles Justin Lim, RSLP
• Hannah Manalang, RSLP

You’ll leave with a clear, doable plan you can start immediately — and the confidence to be your child’s best communication partner. 🌱

📅 November 15, 2025 (Saturday)
🕑 2:00 PM
💵 ₱600
🔗 Register Now: https://bit.ly/LanguageStimulation2025

05/11/2025

Session 1: Nov 4-5, 2025 completed!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
Integrating Feeding, Swallowing and Nutrition Essentials in Clinical Care.

You can’t treat what you don’t understand. Every bite is science. When clinicians get better at seeing the problem, kids get better at taking the bite.

📣 Roll Call!
When a child needs support, the whole team shows up. 💪❤️
It was like going back to college, but better together!

👩‍⚕️ General Pediatricians - Present!
🧑‍⚕️ Pediatric Gastroenterologist - Present!
👩‍⚕️ Developmental Pediatricians - Present!
🧩 Occupational Therapists - Present!
🗣 Speech-Language Pathologist - Present!
🏃 Physical Therapists - Present!
🍽 Nutritionist-Dietitians - Present!

✅ When goals match
✅ When task analysis aligns
✅ When parents don’t have to guess

✨ That’s interdisciplinary care.
Hindi kanya-kanya — sama-sama.
Isang bata, isang pamilya, isang direction. 🇵🇭💛

03/11/2025

Doctor's Class - FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
Integrating Feeding, Swallowing and Nutrition Essentials in Clinical Care

Between the transversus abdominis holding our posture and the masseter, zygomaticus and jaw muscles powering all that sharing and smiling —
collaboration really is a full-body exercise.

👩‍⚕️ DOCTOR'S CLASS Roll Call!
✅ General Pediatricians – Present!
✅ Developmental Pediatricians – Present!
✅ Pediatric Gastroenterologists – Present!
✅ Lactation Consultants – Present!
✅ Pediatric Nephrologist – Present!

A huge thank-you to our amazing teachers, Therese McDermott, CScD, CCC-SLP, C/NDT, and Madonna Nash, OTR/L, C/NDT, for an in-depth and inspiring session that unraveled not only the science of feeding and swallowing — but also the heart and depth of the OT and SLP professions. 💙 !

💬 Best quote of the day:
“Problem-solve with the family in the moment.”

As we head into Day 2, we carry this spirit of collaboration forward —

When a general pediatrician listens,
a developmental pediatrician observes,
a lactation consultant supports,
a pediatric gastroenterologist investigates,
a pediatric nephrologist balances,
an OT adapts,
and an SLP empowers —

Together, we see not just symptoms, but stories.
Not just hardships, but opportunities,
Not just milestones, but meaning.
Because every child deserves a team that learns together.

Thank you to all the pediatricians who joined us today! Here’s to more learning, laughter, and shared purpose ahead. 💪💙

A prayer:
We thank You, our Divine Creator for gathering us today—
different hearts, one purpose: to help every Filipino child enjoy mealtimes, grow, and thrive.
Bless our speakers, our hands, and our minds,
that our work may bring hope, healing, and harmony.
Even if our group is small, remind us that every gathering has a reason, and every effort can spark lasting change.
Amen.

See you all tomorrow!!! 🥰
Yes, the registration is still open, and you are all welcome :)
https://form.jotform.com/connecteducationph/FoodForThought

01/11/2025

REGISTRATION EXTENDED! 🌟
The Food for Thought Series is your chance to transform how you see, assess, and treat pediatric feeding and swallowing.

Whether you’re a doctor, therapist, or nutritionist, this series brings together medicine, therapy, and nutrition for the first time in the Philippines — led by world-renowned experts in pediatric feeding disorders.

🩺 Doctor’s Class – Registration until NOV 2
Learn how to use the WHO-ICF framework to build treatment plans that go beyond symptoms — integrating medical, functional, and family goals.
📍 Nov 3 | Unilab Bayanihan Center, Pasig
📦 Packages and single-class registrations are still open
🍴 Session 1 – Registration until NOV 3
Decode the anatomy, motor control, and sensory foundations of feeding.
Learn to read what every swallow, posture, and movement is telling you.
📍 Nov 4–5 | Unilab Bayanihan Center, Pasig

🧠 Session 2 – Registration until NOV 5
Uncover the why behind feeding problems — from sensory aversions to medical and emotional roots — and design truly effective interventions.
📍 Nov 6–7 | Unilab Bayanihan Center, Pasig

🧩 Session 3 – Registration until NOV 5
Go beyond theory. Work through real cases and build individualized treatment plans that can be used in your clinic right away.
📍 Nov 8–9 | The Medical City, Ortigas

🥦 Nutrition Workshop – Registration until NOV 5
Understand how the gut, nutrients, and digestion influence feeding behavior and growth.
Apply clinical nutrition strategies that bring the science of food into daily therapy.
📍 Nov 10 | The Medical City, Ortigas

💳 Credit card fees permanently waived!
📦 Packages and single-class registrations still open
🎓 OT CPD units approved (14 units for 2 days of attendance), MD CPD pending

✨ Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime training — built for Filipino professionals, designed by global experts.

🔗 Register now: https://form.jotform.com/connecteducationph/FoodForThought

01/11/2025