feeding therapist

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have feedback on Dr Grace Park (Syntactics speech) for feeding therapy? or can anyone recommend a good feeding therapist in northern VA (loudoun county)? My son has feeding issues and ASD. Any recommendations please..

[Anonymous]

Randi Simenson, an occupational therapist in Vienna is excellent. She used to work at Children's and I think she works at another hospital too. She has a private practice at an office, but she also can do house visits. She connected well with our eccentric toddler. She pinpointed the issue the first time she met and assessed him. Her insights were incredible and dead on. In our case she got things on target within maybe 4-5 months-don't quite recall, but the issues were not severe. We did some booster sessions too. She is definitely down to earth and a genuinely nice person. If for any reason she thinks the issue is something she doesn't have expertise in she should be able to give referrals. Just to prepare you-she is expensive, but worth it. You also need to be flexible about start time. She has a busy schedule and can run late (sometimes really late) starting. Occasionally she gets so busy she forgets an appointment so I suggest confirming with her each time at least at the beginning. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Pp, OTs handle things like issues with holding a fork or spoon, helping a child find their mouth etc... She shouldn't have been working on the feeding issue themselves unless she was doing it as a team with an SLP. Feeding therapy is essentially an SLPs job. Also it is not professional to get so busy that you forget an appointment. That is ridiculous. Anyway I don't have a suggestion for you but I do hope that you get some good SLP recs. I have heard of Grace Park but I have heard her expertise is more in cognitive therapy.

For the record, I am involved in healthcare and I don't like to see professionals working on things out of their scope informative which is why I had to say something about the OT Rec. I have seen great things from a team standpoint: OT, SLP and nutritionist working with a child together but an OT shouldn't be working on feeding issues themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp, OTs handle things like issues with holding a fork or spoon, helping a child find their mouth etc... She shouldn't have been working on the feeding issue themselves unless she was doing it as a team with an SLP. Feeding therapy is essentially an SLPs job. Also it is not professional to get so busy that you forget an appointment. That is ridiculous. Anyway I don't have a suggestion for you but I do hope that you get some good SLP recs. I have heard of Grace Park but I have heard her expertise is more in cognitive therapy.

For the record, I am involved in healthcare and I don't like to see professionals working on things out of their scope informative which is why I had to say something about the OT Rec. I have seen great things from a team standpoint: OT, SLP and nutritionist working with a child together but an OT shouldn't be working on feeding issues themselves.

There are indeed OTs specially trained to work with feeding disorders. We worked only with OTs and the doctor at Kennedy Krieger and Childrens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp, OTs handle things like issues with holding a fork or spoon, helping a child find their mouth etc... She shouldn't have been working on the feeding issue themselves unless she was doing it as a team with an SLP. Feeding therapy is essentially an SLPs job. Also it is not professional to get so busy that you forget an appointment. That is ridiculous. Anyway I don't have a suggestion for you but I do hope that you get some good SLP recs. I have heard of Grace Park but I have heard her expertise is more in cognitive therapy.

For the record, I am involved in healthcare and I don't like to see professionals working on things out of their scope informative which is why I had to say something about the OT Rec. I have seen great things from a team standpoint: OT, SLP and nutritionist working with a child together but an OT shouldn't be working on feeding issues themselves.

This program is one of many..

http://www.dukehealth.org/services/physical_therapy/about/care-guides/pediatric-physical-and-occupational-therapy/feeding-difficulties