Pediatric Feeding Disorders
Clinic Director: Dr Dina Zimmerman, MD MPH IBCLC
For appointments please phone: 02-6494321
E-mail: op@alyn.org
The clinic is multidisciplinary and includes a senior pediatrician, speech therapist, physiotherapist, developmental psychologist, occupational therapist, dietician and a physiotherapist.
The clinic offers evaluation and treatment of children, and their families, with feeding disorders caused by medical, developmental or emotional issues. Our clients come from a wide variety of backgrounds and sectors.
What feeding disorders are treated in our clinic?
- Feeding disorders resulting from medical disorders such as: reflux, neurological diseases, syndromes and developmental delay.
- Difficulty in transition to solid food from bottle feeding or nursing.
- Slow growth or poor nutritional status.
- Refusal to eat
- Picky eaters
- Weaning from enteral feeding (gastrostomy, NG tube etc).
- Feeding disorders resulting from alternative nutrition.
- Feeding difficulty in children born prematurely.
The clinic evaluation includes a thorough medical exam and feeding or eating observation by the staff.
Children are referred for different types of treatment including medical follow up, medical specialist consults, eating therapy (by speech therapists), developmental therapy, nutritional follow up, psychological counseling and support.
As Israel’s leading treatment facility for weaning from enteral feeding, babies and children from all over the country are referred for treatment in ALYN. The clinic’s staff is very experienced in the area and maintains contact with Graz University Hospital, Austria who are experts in the field.
