Way to Grow Therapies
Are you concerned about your child's feeding skills? When your baby or child exhibits feeding difficulties, it can be frightening, discouraging, and exhausting. Mealtime often becomes the most challenging part of the day. If this feels familiar, you are not alone. We are here to help!! Way to Grow clinicians provide expert therapeutic techniques and instruction focused on strengthening and expanding your child's feeding skills.
Is your child experiencing any of the following symptoms?
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Difficulty chewing or swallowing
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Arching their back or stiffening when feeding
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Becoming congested while feeding or immediately after
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Coughing, gagging or choking frequently when eating
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Exhibiting trouble breathing when eating
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Vomiting or spiting up frequently during or immediately after feeding
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Refusing new foods or demonstrating a restricted 'picky' diet
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Difficulty moving food in their mouth
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Swallowing food in whole pieces
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Becoming agitated or fussy during mealtime
If so, getting a comprehensive feeding evaluation may be the next right step for you and your child........
About Way To Grow Therapies
Our Approach
At Way To Grow Therapies, we specialize in pediatric feeding and dysphagia therapy, focusing on helping infants, children, and teenagers overcome feeding challenges to develop safe and expansive eating habits for life. Our approach involves responsive feeding from breast/bottle stage through full table meals using play based feeding therapy focused on oral motor and sensory strategies. Feeding therapy is a science based art that builds and develops a loving relationship for your child with food. We are committed to establishing safe and positive eating environments. This means working hand in hand with our families to support the feeding journey of their child.
We specialize in:
*Oral sensory motor impairments
* Tethered oral tissues (tongue and lip ties)
*Dysphagia and Pediatric Feeding Disorders (PFD)
*Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (OMD)
*Medically complex cases such as micro prematurity, CP, trisomy 21, laryngomalacia, etc.
*G-tube weaning
*Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
*Autism Spectrum Disorders
*Sensory Integration Disorders
*Speech and language delays
Feeding challenges are often complex and may require a team of professionals. At Way to Grow Therapies we consult with, refer to, and work closely with:
Pediatricians, ENT, Endocrinology, Nutrition, GI, Neurology, Pulmonology, Genetics, Dentists/Orthodontics, Developmental Psychologists, etc.
Beth R Poe, MA, CCC-SLP
Owner/Speech-Language Pathologist
Feeding Specialist
Beth has been an SLP for over 20 years specializing in feeding, language, and speech therapy. She has an undergraduate degree in Human Services from Villanova University, and a dual MA in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology from University of Maryland, College Park. She has her Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) since 2002. She has worked at: Johns Hopkins Hospital, MD; Newport Hospital, RI; Westerly Hospital, RI; Trudeau Early Intervention, RI; Warwick School Department, RI; Hasbro Children's Hospital, RI; and Great Strides Rehabilitation PPECs, FL. She is certified in SOS Approach to Feeding, The Myo Method, Feed the Peds, Hanen It Takes Two to Talk, Kaufman Speech Praxis Approach, and PECs. She speaks Italian and has a working knowledge of Spanish. She currently resides in Jacksonville, FL where she provides home/daycare based feeding tx as well as teletherapy for infants, children and their families.
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