ROBYN MERKEL-WALSH M.A., CCC-SLP, COM®

Feeding Therapy

Evidence-based pediatric and adult feeding therapy.

Pediatric feeding therapy is a highly specialized area of speech-language pathology that requires extensive post-graduate education and clinical experience. Robyn has thousands of hours of training in feeding development, sensory processing and oral placement approaches to feeding.

Feeding concerns addressed include:

• Failure to thrive / poor weight gain
• Breastfeeding and bottle feeding difficulties in infants
• Texture aversion and selective eating
• Gagging, choking, or aspiration risk
• Tube feeding weaning support
• Post-frenectomy feeding rehabilitation
• Feeding difficulties related to ASD, Down syndrome, CP and other diagnoses

Robyn co-authored A Sensory Motor Approach to Feeding — an evidence-based text for clinicians and parents on the underpinnings of feeding disorders across a variety of diagnoses.