Hallie Bulkin tells pediatric feeding therapists that a license doesn't mean you understand feeding. Many work alone without peer feedback, seeing only pieces of the puzzle instead of the whole child. She invites clinicians to free three-day training at feedthepeds.com/training to build skills together.
So maybe you think like, oh, this is just a really severe case. Or maybe the family isn't carrying enough, they're not carrying over enough at home. Or maybe feeding therapy just takes forever, right? Or maybe I'm not good at this. And that last one, sadly, I hear all the time. Like, Hallie, I feel like I should already know this. But here's the thing, like, why? Because you're an SLP? Because you're an OT, a PT working with the same children? Like, because somewhere along the way you got the message that you should already know all of these pieces and how they all fit together? Being licensed doesn't magically create competency. Exposure doesn't create competency. And knowing one piece of the puzzle doesn't mean anybody ever taught you how to see the whole child, right? Those are different things. And so many clinicians are trying to build these skills in complete isolation. Maybe you're the only person in your building working with feeding cases and there's nobody sitting beside you, say, like asking, why'd you make that decision? Or challenging you to consider another explanation, right? So come hang out with us. Go to feedthepeds.com/training and register for Screen the Peds to Feed the Peds. Like I said, it's free. We're doing it together for 3 days, and I want you there.
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