Lauren Leeming (BSc SLP, CPSP)

Founder & Director

I am an accredited practicing Speech Pathologist and a member of Speech Pathology Australia. I am passionate about paediatric feeding disorders and have been privileged to work in this specialty field for the past 19 years (15 of which were at Sydney Children’s Hospital - Randwick).

When I am not at work, I am at my other job: being a mum to three awesome little people and the sweetest furbaby (our chocolate labradoodle). I know first hand how stressful mealtime struggles and feeding difficulties can be for everyone involved. I feel honored that I get to come alongside families and be a part of their unique feeding journey as we work collaboratively to achieve functional feeding outcomes.

  • Lauren graduated from The Univerity of Cape Town, South Africa with a BSc Speech Pathology in 2004. She has been fortunate enough to gain invaluable experience working internationally in South Africa, the UK and Australia.

    Lauren has spent most of her career working in the paediatric and neonatal tertiary hospital setting (Sydney Children’s Hospital; 2010-2023), however has also had the privilege of being able to work within both the community and disability sectors.

    She has a clinical passion for peadiatric feeding and swallowing difficulties and offers families non-judgmental and practical strategies to ensure they feel supported on their feeding journey.

    In addition to this, Lauren has had amazing opportunities to provide clinical mentoring/ supervision and training as well as participate in research and service development pertaining to paediatric feeding disorders.

    Lauren loves learning and has participated in numerous postgraduate training courses and professional development throughout her career. She has worked extensively across a variety of clinical areas with experience in feeding difficulties associated with (and not limited to):

    - Extreme prematurity of birth

    - Autism and ADHD

    - Gastrointestinal related conditions e.g gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GORD) and Eosiniphiliic oesophagitis (EoE)

    - brain injuries e.g. stroke, trauma or hypoxia.

    - cleft lip and palate conditions

    - cerebral palsy

    - chromosome deletions and syndromes

    - cardio/respiratory related conditions e.g Laryngomalacia, congenital heart

    defects

    - Oncology and Haematology

    - Dysphagia of unknown eitiology