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Flower Outpatient Feeding Team
The feeding team serves children with a complex medical history with a variety of medical needs.

The team is a multidisciplinary group consisting of:

  • speech language pathologist who specializes in pediatric dysphagia
  • developmental pediatrician
  • behavioral psychologist
  • nutritionist (as needed)
Evaluation
During a feeding team evaluation:
  • the child and parent are seen with the entire team in an exam room.
  • an extensive history is taken by the physician.
  • the child is observed during a trial feeding and evaluated by the physician, speech language pathologist and behavioral psychologist.
After the Visit
The family is given a list of recommendations at the end of the visit. There is also an extensive feedback session with the team as to the feeding diagnosis, strategies to improve feeding, any further testing, medication, and/or referral to other medical specialties.

Recommendations on whether the child is in need of on-going behavioral or feeding therapy and ways to obtain those resources is also discussed.

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