Pediatric feeding training, licensed to health systems
Your hospital sees children who need feeding support. Most of your clinicians were never trained to provide it.
Interdisciplinary pediatric feeding training, licensed to your hospital so every clinician is equipped to treat, and no family is left waiting.
You have invested in pediatric care. The feeding gap is still there.
Your hospital has built pediatric services, recruited skilled clinicians, and sent staff to continuing education. That investment is real and still, when a child with a feeding difficulty arrives, the same pattern repeats. The case waits, gets referred out, or lands with a clinician who was never trained for it.
Every one of these is a symptom of the same thing and it is not a problem with your clinicians.
Why does pediatric feeding fall through the cracks in nearly every hospital?
Under 1% of academic clinical training covers pediatric feeding. One dot in one hundred. Every clinician on your staff graduated from a program built this way.
The gap is not a weakness in any individual clinician. It is structural, and it repeats in nearly every program and nearly every graduate. “We don’t have anybody” because the workforce was never trained for this. “We need to hire a feeding therapist” is the reflex to buy in expertise the existing team was never given the chance to build. Clinicians avoid feeding cases, or take them without confidence, because they are being asked to practice past their education.
Hospitals have tried to solve this two ways: by hiring specialists, and by sending staff to scattered continuing education. Neither closes a structural gap. Hiring moves one trained clinician from one hospital to another. It does not train a workforce. And a folder of unrelated CEUs is not the same as a clinician trained, comprehensively, to a single standard.
Not another hire. Not another course.
The instinct behind those investments is right. Hospitals that recruit pediatric specialists, fund continuing education, and build feeding services are taking the problem seriously and taking it seriously in the right direction.
What is missing is a way to train the clinicians already on staff, all of them comprehensively, to one shared standard, without pulling them off the floor or adding a project no one has time to manage.
That is the variable. Not another hire. Not another scattered course. A single, complete training system that equips your existing workforce and installs into the systems you already run.
Feed The Peds® licenses the pediatric feeding training your clinicians never received and delivers it to your entire team.
Feed The Peds® is a complete, interdisciplinary pediatric feeding training system, licensed to your hospital and delivered through the learning management system you already use. It is not a one-off workshop, a scattered set of CEUs, or generic staff development it is a single clinical reasoning system that trains your whole pediatric workforce to one shared standard.
It is built to integrate, not replace. The program installs alongside the pediatric services, the clinicians, and the systems you have already invested in and makes that investment work the way it was meant to, by closing the one gap every prior effort had to work around.
Four things shift when your workforce is trained
Feeding cases that were referred elsewhere or never identified become care delivered in-house. Hospitals adopting dedicated pediatric feeding therapy see measurable 12–20% first-year gains in revenue, efficiency, and outcomes.
The training your clinicians never received in school is delivered in full. Structured feeding education raises clinician confidence by approximately 80% and a confident workforce is a reason talented clinicians choose your organization and stay.
Children move from waiting to care faster.
A trained workforce means more capacity. Structured feeding programs achieve 30–40% faster progression to safe feeding and earlier discharge readiness shorter stays, fewer readmissions, and no family sent hours away for care your hospital could provide.
Why this is not another course
Feed The Peds® was built by a practicing pediatric feeding clinician and is anchored in evidence-based clinical reasoning not assembled as generic corporate training.
Three steps, and no new vendor to manage
The Numbers behind the case
From clinicians who have completed the training
The Feed The Peds® licensing system is delivered for your hospital’s existing infrastructure and can be paired with optional live support.
- The complete Feed The Peds® curriculum — comprehensive pediatric feeding assessment and treatment, structured across two levels.
- Level 1 — Foundations for Pediatric Care Teams: recognition-and-referral training for all pediatric-facing staff, with no treatment protocols.
- Level 2 — Advanced Clinical Training: full assessment and treatment training for licensed SLPs, OTs, and PTs.
- The Feed The Peds® clinical toolkit — assessment forms, screening tools, and clinical templates.
- HallieAI™ — on-demand clinical and administrative support trained on the Feed The Peds® framework.
- CEU-aligned documentation throughout the program.
- SCORM-compliant, plug-and-play delivery into your existing learning management system.
- Evergreen, on-demand access — designed to be completed over approximately 12 weeks and customizable to your team.
- Annual content updates.
- CEU management for hospitals without their own continuing-education provider status.
- Live virtual Q&A sessions with the Feed The Peds® team.
- Onsite workshops.
- Extended mentor access for clinicians without internal feeding mentors.
- Children’s hospitals and health systems with pediatric departments.
- Regional and academic medical centers serving pediatric populations.
- Organizations with NICU, PICU, inpatient, or outpatient pediatric services.
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Hospitals where pediatric feeding cases are currently referred out, delayed, or handled unevenly.
- A growing waitlist. Pediatric feeding cases are accumulating faster than the current team can see them.
- Fragile transitions. Feeding practice varies across units, and NICU-to-pediatrics handoffs depend on whoever happens to be on.
- Recruitment and retention pressure. Comprehensive specialty training would help attract and keep skilled clinicians.
- A service being built or standardized. The organization is formalizing a pediatric feeding program and wants it built on one clear standard.
Hallie Bulkin spent more than a decade in direct pediatric care across outpatient, early intervention, and medically complex settings and lived the feeding gap from the inside. She did not arrive at pediatric feeding through academia or a publishing company. She arrived through the bedside, and through the clinician’s experience of being handed feeding cases without the training to treat them.
Hallie is the founder of Elevation Movement and the creator of Feed The Peds® and The Myo Method®. She founded and directs Little Sprout Therapy and Metro Myo, a multi-state pediatric clinic, and hosts The Untethered Podcast®, with more than 380 episodes since 2019.
The hospital licensing system comes directly from that combination a clinician who has practiced pediatric feeding at the bedside, built and run multi-state clinical services, and trained thousands of clinicians in the work. It is the training she needed, built by someone who has done the job.
MA, CCC-SLP, CMT®, CPFT™ · Founder of Elevation Movement · Creator of Feed The Peds® and The Myo Method® · Host of The Untethered Podcast®
Pediatric feeding is one of the clearest gaps in clinical care and one of the most solvable.