Karin van der Walt & Partners Speech Therapists

17/11/2024

Celebrated World Prematurity day on Friday. What a privilege to work with little superhero’s helping them learn how to feed safely and efficiently 💜💜💜

09/08/2019

Great advice !

Yessssss!!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

Thanks The Speech Dynamic for this!!!

24/09/2018

Hope you all are having a fantastic heritage day!

05/09/2018

It's These tiny superheroes deserve a huge shout out and extra love and cuddles! They overcome the biggest obstacles so early in their lives!

02/08/2018

How interesting is this...

The same hormone that controls or***ms also controls the production of breast milk. That's just one of the surprising scientific facts about breast milk highlighted in a new review — dubbed "Breastfed at Tiffany's" — published in the journal Trends in Biochemical Sciences. Here are our favourites: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/stat/facts-about-breast-milk_b_9740432.html

01/08/2018

As a new mom to an ebf baby of almost 3months, I've have seen first hand the benefits, convenience as well as troublesome and heartache that comes with breastfeeding. One thing is for sure, it's a special journey that you cannot explain and only understand once you have gone through it yourself!

Happy breastfeeding week!

14/07/2018

Early intervention is always the key to success. I hear the phrase " They will grow out of it" too often. Rather get an assessment and professional advise for your little one before it's too late.

26/06/2018

SOS Approach to Feeding is a unique feeding therapy program that helps infants and children with feeding difficulties. Any therapist who is treating these kiddies should have this approach in their toolbox.

Parents, you can join your therapist in attending this course, so tell them about it and come learn how to manage your child's feeding difficulties.

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Seats to the SOS Approach to Feeding Conference are selling fast. Book now to avoid disappointment: http://ow.ly/FLS830kFr8b

03/03/2018

  A meta-analysis of ten studies involving more than 1.2 million children reaffirms that vaccines don’t cause autism. If anything, immunization was associated with decreased risk that chil

03/03/2018

Feeding matters is a great support for families who have children feeding difficulties. Here are some great recipe ideas from them.

This section is a collection of recipes that others have found useful for infants and children who struggle with feeding. These include allergies and intolerances, coping with aversions, fun with food, and high calorie or boosted recipes.

20/01/2018

Something we see in our practice often.

07/10/2017

We always have this discussion in our feeding clinic with parents. A great read...

In this post, I express some thoughts that have been brewing for a few years now. We need health professionals to respond to feeding problems in an informed and supportive way.