Changing Tides Speech Pathology

05/10/2026

🗓️ Book a session with our Northern Beaches team. Appointments available now! Send us a message to learn more.

18/03/2026

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It’s Swallowing Awareness Day!

We often take swallowing for granted, but it is one of the most complex functions the body carries out... hundreds of times a day, even while we sleep.

Swallowing begins early, too. Even a foetus in utero is swallowing amniotic fluid from around 11 weeks gestation. 👶🏽

It is also vitally important. Not only does swallowing help provide nutrition, but when timed properly, it helps protect food and fluid from entering the lungs. 🫁

In Australia, Speech Pathologists are the health professionals trained in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of swallowing disorders (or dysphagia) across the lifespan, from birth onwards. We also work collaboratively with doctors and other allied health professionals.

Feeding and swallowing is a complex area that changes with age and development. Speech Pathologists working in infant and paediatric feeding often need further training beyond their degrees to develop the specific knowledge and skills required to best support babies and children.

Up to 25–45% of typically developing children, 40% of children born premature, and 80% of children with developmental disabilities and chronic medical conditions experience feeding or swallowing difficulties at some point.

Some signs of feeding and swallowing difficulties may include:

🚩 Sucking, swallowing or breathing difficulties with breastfeeding or bottle feeding
🚩 Long feeds or mealtimes, or getting tired while eating or drinking
🚩 Feed refusal, aversion, or distress around eating
🚩 Difficulty transitioning to solids, lumpy foods, or chewable foods
🚩 Coughing, choking, or gagging on food or drink, or a feeling of food getting “stuck”
🚩 Fussy, picky, or selective eating that impacts the child or family
🚩 Delays in feeding skill development
🚩 Recurring chest infections or pneumonia without a known cause

If you are concerned about your child’s feeding or swallowing, please reach out to a Speech Pathologist with additional expertise in infant and/or paediatric feeding.

At Babble & Munch, we support families through in-clinic and Australia-wide Telehealth feeding therapy, and we also provide training and mentoring for Speech Pathologists and other health professionals around the world in feeding therapy. 🍓

22/12/2025

That's a wrap! 🎉

Thank you to all of our wonderful families for another year of hard work and hitting goals. It means the world that you chose us to support you. ❤️

Thank you to this incredible group of therapists for your commitment and expertise this year. ✨️
Here is a snippet from our Christmas party last week, laser tag in a thunderstorm ⛈️ What a group of legends!

We will be back in Jan for another year of fun! 🎉

Merry christmas from all of us. May this time be full of laughter, good food, rest, reflection, and making memories with your loved ones. 💕🎄

24/08/2025

Great visual!

via Littles

10/07/2025

Last weekend our Northern Beaches team journeyed up to our Central Coast clinic to check out the newly renovated space, and meet some new faces ❤️

It was so lovely to be able to spend time together as a team 🌸 We have 11 amazing speechies (a couple faces missing) across our two clinics, and they each bring such a diverse range of unique skills to their roles.

Forever grateful and proud of this incredible group of ladies. Looking forward to our next team catch up! 💕

06/05/2025

A BIG happy early 30th birthday to our wonderful Carly, our Northern Beaches clinic supervisor and speech therapist extraordinaire. 🎈🎂

Thank you for all that you do for our team. We'd be lost without you! Have an amazing week celebrating 🍾 💖

05/05/2025

From planting succulents in the garden, to building a 'space cave'. Our speech therapist, Rose, does an amazing job thinking outside of the box for her kid's sessions 🏕 🪴 🌱

Swipe for a little friend who also tried to join in on the fun 🦎

03/03/2025

Meet Jason, the newest team member in our Central Coast clinic 💙 🐕

Jason spent his first day exploring our rooms and testing out all of our cushions. We are happy to report that they have all passed the comfort test.

Our furry friend will be a regular face in our clinic. We look forward to the calm, chilled vibe that he will bring (and yes, that is a denim vest he is wearing) 👌

Welcome, Jason!

19/02/2025

📣 IT'S TIME! 🎉 SHE'S READY!

We have been working extra hard behind the scenes for the past few months, getting ready to open our SECOND Changing Tides clinic, located on NSW Central Coast!

We are so excited to announce that we will be opening our doors THIS FRIDAY, February 21! ❤️

We have been running around finalising painting, carpets, signage, and furniture building (tomorrow 😁) to get our space looking nice and pretty. We will still be adding final touches over the coming weeks (including some inviting plants in the front garden bed 😅), but for now, we are ready to rock and roll, and start supporting more kids on the Coast 😍

We have 3 new faces who will be joining our speech pathology team on the Coast (totalling 6 therapists up here, and 4 in our Sydney clinic), and we are equally excited to welcome new families through our doors 🚪 💖 ... we can't wait to meet you all!

Stay tuned for a reel on how our renos have progressed - it's been heaps of fun watching the transformation 🔨

Bring on Friday! 🎉❤️🎉❤️