Therapy for Children 6-11 years

Feeding Assessments for Children

Eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties can be very challenging for families to manage. Ensuring that your child or young person is meeting their nutritional needs for growth and development is of paramount importance. Their relationship with food and the enjoyment of eating and drinking, supports social opportunities and family interaction.

Our therapists will support you by assessing your child’s eating, drinking, and swallowing skills and needs, and provide advice and strategies for successful, safe, and positive feeding experiences. Onward referral and advice from a paediatric dietitian can be accessed in collaboration with our therapists.

We provide multidisciplinary feeding support. You may consider this if your child has:

• Poor weight gain
• Fussy eating
• Restrictive eating
• Food refusal
• Aspiration
• Problems eating a range of textures
• Problems with chewing and swallowing
• Weaning from a nasogastric tube, in conjunction with your dietitian

Developmental Assessments for Children

At Nurture and Connect Therapy we view your child/young person holistically and can offer comprehensive developmental assessments:

Children's Speech and Language Therapy

You may wish to consider an individual SLT assessment if your child has:

• Social interaction difficulties/ Autism
• Developmental language Delay
• Speech delay
• Speech sound difficulties
• Apraxia of speech
• Cleft lip and/or palate
• Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) needs

Children's Occupational Therapy

You may wish to consider an individual OT assessment if your child has:

• Coordination difficulties (dyspraxia)
• Delayed self-care skills, such as dressing and toileting
• Delayed play skills
• Fine motor difficulties/handwriting difficulties
• Regulation difficulties i.e., easily frustrated, difficulty with attention
• Sensory processing difficulties

You may wish to consider joint OT & SLT assessment if your child:

• Has delayed motor skills
• Has a known genetic condition, such as Down Syndrome, Fragile X
• Acquired brain injury
• Autism