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Rosie Johnston MS, CCC-SLP Brooklyn, New York
by Rosie Johnston
(Brooklyn, New York)
Rosie Johnston MS, CCC-SLP Brooklyn, New York rosie@slprosie.com
Rosie Johnston earned her Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from Long Island University in 2004. She began working for St. Mary’s Hospital for Children providing community based feeding therapy to patients with a wide variety of medical diagnoses who ranged in age from birth through adolescence. Rosie then began working for the hospital in house at the Center for Pediatric Feeding Disorders. She continued her work there using behavior modification techniques to help children and adolescents overcome feeding issues resulting from medical conditions, sensory integration difficulties and oral motor deficits. Rosie’s training in the use of behavioral treatment techniques began in 1998 when she worked as an Applied Behavioral Analysis assistant with children from birth to 3 years old diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorders. Rosie currently works in Brooklyn, New York providing feeding therapy to children and adolescents with a wide variety of feeding disorders. She uses behavioral techniques and general feeding intervention strategies in treatment. Rosie is also certified in Beckman Oral Motor Assessment and Intervention.
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Rosie provides feeding therapy to children from ages birth through adolescence with a variety of diagnoses such as PDD/Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Downs’ Syndrome, Cystic Fibrosis, Maple Syrup Urine Disease, GERD, Delayed Emptying and food allergies and intolerances. Therapeutic interventions have been extremely successful in alleviating food aversions to taste and/or texture, increasing consumption to avoid or eliminate tube feedings and work on oral motor skills for safe and efficient feedings. Therapeutic techniques have also been useful in decreasing mealtime stressors such as dawdling and improving self-feeding skills to foster independence during meals.
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"Getting Jessica to gain weight has been a constant struggle. Her diagnosis of Failure to Thrive in the absence of any other medical problems has caused my husband and I much embarrassment because so many people and medical professionals felt it was our fault. Your compassionate and empathetic manner helped us feel at ease and comfortable in our decision to work with you, and by taking your suggestions we have been able to get Jessica to gain 10 pounds in 6 months, putting her on the growth chart for the first time since she was 2. Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
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