Therapy for babies and children 0-2 years

Feeding Assessments for Babies

Early feeding experiences are one of the most important influences in our relationship with food, and the enjoyment of eating and drinking, as we grow and develop.

Our speech and language therapists and occupational therapists will support you by assessing your child’s eating, drinking, and swallowing skills. We can then provide advice and strategies for successful, positive feeding experiences through the initial stage of establishing breast or bottle feeding, to eating solid food. Onward referral and advice from a paediatric dietitian can be accessed in collaboration with our therapists.

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

Poor weight gain
Difficulty with establishing breast feeding
Bottle aversion
Difficulties with weaning
Fussy eating
Restrictive eating
Food refusal
Aspiration
Problems with a range of textures
Problems with chewing and swallowing
Weaning from a nasogastric tube, in conjunction with your dietitian

Developmental Assessments for Babies

At Nurture and Connect Therapy we view your child 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:

Early play and interaction difficulties
Communication/speech delay
Cleft lip and/or palate

Children's Occupational Therapy

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

Delayed motor skills
Delayed milestones
Delayed play skills
Regulation difficulties i.e. easily frustrated, irritable, difficulty settling

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

Was born prematurely with delayed motor milestones
Has a known genetic condition, such as Down Syndrome, Fragile X
Acquired brain injury
Social communication difficulties

We will provide an initial assessment and summary with the option of booking further one to one intervention.