Asha Bodycoat
Asha is a Speech Pathologist with a background in early intervention for children with developmental delays and disabilities. She is also a qualified autism assessor.
Asha particularly enjoys working with neurodivergent children and their families to make mealtimes less stressful. At the core of her approach to feeding therapy is helping parents and carers to understand how their children experience the world.
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Asha is trained in numerous approaches to feeding therapy including Get Permission, SOS®, and SOFFI®. She uses a combination of trainings and strategies based on what each individual child needs.
Holly Tickner
Since graduating over 15 years ago, Holly has worked almost exclusively in the area of paediatric feeding difficulties, which has become her clinical passion. Holly has spent most of her career working in the paediatric and neonatal tertiary hospital setting, however she has had the privilege of being able to work across additional sectors, including paediatric mental health, community settings, the disability sector, and early intervention.
In addition to this, Holly has taught on the subject of paediatric feeding disorders to other health professionals across the state and has lectured on the topic to students at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University.
Holly is always interested in discussing evidence based practice in the world of paediatric feeding and has recently taken on a role as a reviewer with The Informed SLP, writing on the topics of paediatric feeding disorders and early intervention.
Annie Robertson
Annie Robertson is a Senior Dietitian with 15 years experience working with children with complex feeding difficulties in Perth and London, including Perth Children's Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital. She
has also mentored dietetic students and new graduates for many years.
Annie provides assessment and evidence based recommendations for the management of nutritional issues related to disability, tube feeding and weaning, infant and toddler feeding difficulties, growth faltering, malnutrition as well as a range of other chronic diseases and medical conditions.
Annie is a mother to two young children, so understands the chaos of parent life! She aims to provide practical, non-judgemental support that fits with families own feeding goals. Annie loves working as part of a multidisciplinary team of feeding therapists, to provide a holistic approach to childhood feeding.
Alison Climie-Holmes
Alison is a Senior Dietitian with 30 years' experience working with infants, children and teenagers in both Australia and the UK, including community settings and major teaching hospitals.
Alison provides evidence-based recommendations for the management of nutritional issues related to growth and development, vitamin and mineral deficiency e.g. iron deficiency, constipation and gut health, Paediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD) and Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) , infant and toddler feeding difficulties, tube feeding and weaning, as well as a range of other chronic diseases and medical conditions.
Alison loves working as part of an interdisciplinary team of feeding therapists, to provide a holistic, practical and supportive approach to feeding.
Can you tell we love learning?
Here's our shared list of professional development courses:
Appetite: How to Foster Hunger & Wean Kids from Tube Feedings
Melanie Potock & Holly Knotowicz
A Practical Guide to Managing Fussy Eaters
Dr Julie Cichero
ARFID: The Anxious Eater
Melanie Potock
A Sensory Motor Approach for Poor Diet Texture Progression
Debra Beckman
Circle of Security
Dr Kent Hoffman & Dr Glenn Cooper
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Avoidant / Restrictive Food Intake Disorder CBT-AR for ARFID
Dr Kamryn Eddy & Dr Jennifer Thomas
Feeding Therapy: It’s Not Just about Swallowing
Melanie Potock
Grade the ASK : A Sensitive Strategy for Careful and Successful New Food Trying
Marsha Dunn Klein
Hanen It Takes Two To Talk
Infant and Neonatal Feeding
Dr Pamela Doddrill & Dr Kelly Weir
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Mealtime Miseries
Elizabeth Clawson & Carol Elliot
Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation of Swallow (NMES, or Vitalstim)
Paediatric Cervical Auscultation
Dr Julie Cichero
Paediatric dysphagia: The A-Z of the IDDSI Framework, fussy eating and medication administration in babies and children
Dr Julie Cichero
Pediatric Feeding Disorders and Anxiety: Don't Feed the Monster
Melanie Potock & Dr Jonathan Dalton
PROMPT
Dr Roslyn Ward
SENSE-ational Mealtimes
Gillian Griffiths
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SOFFI®: Supporting Oral Feeding in Medically Fragile Infants
Feeding FUNdamentals
The Developing Brain
Nathan Mikaere Wallis
Tube Weaning
Dr Marguerite Dunitz-Scheer & Dr Peter Scheer
Videofluroscopy Swallow X-rays (Modified Barium Swallow, or Videofluroscopic Swallow Study/VFSS)
When Children Won’t Eat: Picky Eaters vs Problem Feeders. Assessment and Treatment using the SOS Approach to Feeding
Dr Kay Toomey and Bethany Kortsha