What we can do in our sessions
Adults
Sensory food analysis and activities
Nutrition analysis to determine nutrient or food group gaps
Nutrient deficiency support
Support for weight gain or weightloss
Pantry and fridge organisation
Recipe writing, shopping lists, meal planning
Supermarket visits
Support for increasing food amounts and variety
Cooking and food preparation skills
Food based exploring
ADHD friendly eating strategies
Family, therapy team or support worker education
Meal Guides
Executive functioning and dopamine food hacks
Texture modified IDDSI diets
Pantry and fridge organisation
Children 3yrs + and Families
Growth assessments and monitoring
Family interventions for overnutrition or undernutrition
Environmental, communication and behavioural mealtime strategies
Nutrient deficiency support eg. iron
Nutrition analysis to determine any nutrient or food group gaps
Food exploring sessions
Sensory food analysis and recomendations
Parent Coaching in Responsive feeding & positive mealtimes
Support for increasing food amount and variety
Support with managing food allergies or intolerances
Support for constipation
ARFID support
Feeding therapy
ADHD appetite and medication support
Cooking and food preparation skills
Texture modified IDDSI diets
Therapy team support
Who is Neurodiversity Nutrition for;
Neurotypical and Neurodivergent kids and adults are all welcome with the service best suited for
- Autistic participants
- ARFID
- ADHDer's
- AuDHDer's
- Intellectual Disability
- Acquired Brain Injury
- Learning disabilities
- Down Syndrome
Service structure
Support takes time
As eating, mealtimes and nutrition are complex for Neurodivergent clients a minimum of 5 hours of service is recommended to work on your nutrition goals.
Unfortunately there are no magic pills, foods, therapy or instant fixes for nutrition issues. Behaviour change is difficult so I meet you and your family where you are at and support you to recognise the small wins that add up to a long term positive relationship with food and mealtimes. This may not look eating a vegetable now instead its about but improving felt safety around food and a food range that meets someone's individualised needs and lifestyle over time.
This may never look like a Neurotypical eating patterns or food range and that's ok.
Hours of service
5 hours of service; Initial nutrition assessment 60-90 minutes, 2-4 x 60 minute reviews plus as needed nutrition analysis, reporting, liason with Doctor or allied health, resources.
5-20 hours of service; As above plus regular check-ins - fortnightly for 2-3 months or monthly sessions for 6-12 months. Suited to parent coaching, 1-2 terms of feeding therapy, support for a specific goal eg. weightgain/loss, nutrient deficiency, expanding food range for > 10 foods.
20-30 hours of service; As above and includes consistent sessions fortnightly- monthly plus travel time, personalised resources, therapy meetings. Suited to ongoing feeding therapy, complex mealtimes or growth issues, ARFID or a food range of less than 10 foods.
A collaborative plan of service will be discussed in your first sessions based on funding, goals and support needs.
Announcement
Come see me at my new clinic space on a Tuesday at PlayTalkGrow Speech Pathology in Nedlands.