We are not in-network with any insurance companies. By remaining out-of-network, we are able to offer highly individualized care for you and your child. This allows for the highest quality of service as we are not limited in terms of which services we can offer and how much time we can spend with our clients.

We will create a superbill invoice upon request if you wish to submit for reimbursement through your insurance.

If a superbill is provided for you, a pediatrician prescription for speech-language pathology (SLP) helps increase the likelihood that insurance will reimburse some or all the costs of these sessions. Tulips Feeding & Speech Resources offers a complimentary SLP prescription form, which we can fax on your behalf upon request. Alternatively, you can bring the prescription form to your next pediatrician appointment. Some of our clients utilize Reimbursify’s services which are intended to make the process of submitting superbills to insurance quick and easy.

We are currently accepting new clients from birth to 29 months old. Once established as a client, we support families (as needed) up until their child’s 3rd birthday.

We exclusively work with families who have little ones under age 3 and specialize in infant feeding, transitioning to solids, oral-motor and sensory based feeding difficulties, oral and pharyngeal phase dysphagia, NMES (neuromuscular electrical stimulation) via VitalStim, and early speech-language development. Our unique combination of training and skills enables us to offer an integrated approach to help families reach their feeding and/or speech-language goals. Our approach includes: 1) Infant feeding therapy, 2) Toddler feeding therapy, 3) Speech and language therapy, and 4) Virtual parent coaching .

Our services are family-centered, holistic, and individualized for each client. We utilize a parent-partnership model of therapy wherein the parents are equal partners in therapy. A custom care plan is provided after each appointment, which includes a detailed home exercise program. All of the exercises provided as part of the home exercise program are camouflaged in play and serve as a wonderful way to engage with your child and strengthen your bond.

Yes, we provide neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) via VitalStim. Candidates for Feeding Therapy with VitalStim have had a swallow study demonstrating penetration and/or aspiration (if food or liquid entered their airway during swallowing) or other swallowing difficulties. At the beginning of each session, small stickers with electrodes are connected to leads and are gently placed on the front of your child's neck. The VitalStim device delivers a very small electrical current which results in a subtle tingling sensation, helping your child's muscles to contract synergistically in a more functional and timely manner when swallowing. Your child will be encouraged to eat/drink/swallow as much as possible during the session (bringing a hungry child is important). We recommend a frequency of at least 2x/wk for 12 weeks for optimal benefits of neuromuscular electrical stimulation prior to a repeat swallow study is performed.

Yes, our office is located in North Dallas at:

17430 Campbell Rd, Suite #107, Dallas, TX 75252.

We do not offer home visits at this time.

It depends. For more wellness based preventative care, typically, we see families for approximately 4-6 sessions. In some cases, for a more chronic feeding or speech-language concern with a co-occurring medical diagnosis, we may see families for 12-16 sessions, or more. For VitalStim sessions, we recommend a frequency of at least 2x/wk for 12 weeks for optimal benefits of neuromuscular electrical stimulation prior to a repeat swallow study. When families are committed to the process, we usually see steady improvement. Families who get the best results are those who work diligently and patiently with their child daily and focus on co-regulation strategies while doing this hard work — change is hard! If there is a functional plateau or if the situation worsens, we refer to another provider either in addition to our services or instead of our services.

The initial evaluation includes a detailed review of your child’s medical and developmental history as well as an assessment of your child’s oral motor skills via an oral mechanism exam, and either feeding skills or speech-language skills. Once a baseline is established, treatment/intervention begins. Evidence-based strategies will be provided during the session, and you will receive a detailed care plan by the end of the next day, which summarizes the recommendations provided during your session and includes helpful notes, handouts, pictures, and videos. One free phone check-in is included with your evaluation in order to answer any additional questions you may have.

Feeding and swallowing disorders can lead to health, learning, and social problems. Feeding disorders include problems with sucking, eating from a spoon, chewing, or drinking from a cup. Swallowing disorders, also called dysphagia (dis-FAY-juh) are difficulties with moving food or liquid from the mouth, throat, or esophagus to the stomach. Feeding and swallowing disorders are often related to other medical conditions but may also occur without a known cause.

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) help children with feeding and swallowing problems.

Learn more about feeding and swallowing disorders here: https://www.asha.org/public/speech/swallowing/feeding-and-swallowing-disorders-in-children/

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in clients. SLP services involve: 1) a comprehensive evaluation, during which a baseline and individualized goals are established, 2) customized interventions to improve the client(s) ability to achieve their goals, and 3) ongoing evaluation of outcomes to ensure that goals are being met. SLPs scope of practice is everything from the throat up, meaning that they evaluate and treat clients with their swallow function, voice, oral-motor skills, oral articulators, cognitive-linguistic skills, pragmatic and social skills, articulation, and language disorders. For more information, visit https://www.asha.org/.